Tag: alice_munro

All signs said that the right thing to do was to go back there
He took walks almost every day, in spite of the weather
Time to make a fresh start
It wasn’t her nature to be sulky
That was as far ahead as he liked to think
She would live now, not read
I barely remember that life
‘See! See!’ he says, and she does see
There’s something I want to be sure to show you
She has stared out of windows more
I suppose you’re quite a stranger to farm life
A bus would come eventually, and take them north
People were just down on her because she had got an education
I am amazed sometimes to think how old I am
A loud, wild, shaking voice
Sheltered as I was …
… I almost believed her