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ID
b90
Title
The Station
Genre
Story
Page Count
17
Word Count
4280
Publisher
Argosy (UK)
Courier
John O'London's Weekly
Man's Magazine
Publication Year
1935

Uncharacteristic of the pieces in the 1935 collection Cut and Come Again in treating neither rural nor boyhood themes, this tale explores the sexual tension between a truck-driver and a woman who owns an all-night restaurant.

In John O'London's Weekly (May 18, 1935), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), Seven by Five (1963), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974).

Reprinted in Tellers of Tales (1939), Argosy (October 1941 and January 1964), Courier (September 1948), Man's Magazine (December 1960), English Short Stories of My Time (1970), Treasury of Great Short Stories (1984).