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ID
b257
Title
"Lost Ball."
Genre
Story
Page Count
10
Word Count
3000
Publisher
Cornhill Magazine
Publication Year
1959

A fussy and obsessive golfer, searching for a lost ball, encounters a troubled young woman at a wind-swept beach.

In The Cornhill Magazine (Autumn 1959), Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories/The Enchantress and Other Stories (1961), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963).