pale horse pale rider three short novels katherine anne porter

Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. “Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out.

On a gray horse, she embarks on a journey to escape Death and the Devil and the stranger rides beside her on his own gray horse. Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-” Pale Horse, Pale Rider Miranda dreams of a familiar bed, a familiar house, and a familiar stranger. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…” Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors short novels or long stories, as Porter-who didnt hold with the term 'novella'-called her pieces. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels 1 likes Like Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress sulphur-colored light ex-ploded through the black windowpane and flashed away in darkness. The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating. Miranda waking from a dreamless sleep asked without expecting an answer, “What is happening?” for there was a bustle of voices and footsteps in the corridor, and a sharpness in the air the far clamour went on, a furious exasperated shrieking like a mob in revolt. ““Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress sulphur-colored light exploded through the black windowpane and flashed away in darkness. McDermott, Alice, “Why Libraries Should Stock “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” NPR.org.

Pale horse pale rider three short novels katherine anne porter