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- ID
- b181
- Title
- "Time Expired."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 12
- Word Count
- 3400
- Publisher
- Britain
- New English Review
- Story
- Publication Year
- 1945
- Topics
- War, Asia
With a title phrase meaning that a soldier's service is completed, Bates portrays a war-weary nurse and a young soldier, injured just three days before he was to return home to Shropshire.
In Voices on the Green (1945), Story (September/October 1945), Britain (September 1945), The New English Review (October, 1945), Little Reviews Anthology (1946), Colonel Julian and Other Stories (1951), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009). Reprinted in Aspects of the Short Story (1956).
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