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ID
b183
Title
"Mrs. Vincent."
Genre
Story
Page Count
11
Word Count
2744
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Christmas Pie
Publication Year
1945
Topics
Pilots, War, Asia

A woman, sour from twenty "wasted" years in India, entertains a young injured pilot who is angry and "oppressed by a sense that his life had reached an empty, pointless ditch."

In Christmas Pie (December 1945), Atlantic Monthly (August 1946), Colonel Julian and Other Stories (1951).