“George and Alice Smith detrained at Biarritz one summer noon and in an hour had run through their hotel onto the beach into the ocean and back out to bake upon the sand.”
Contents: 9 In a Season of Calm Weather (1957) 18 The Dragon (1955) 23 A Medicine for Melancholy 36 The End of the Beginning (1956) 43 The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit non-genre (1958) 71 Fever Dream (1948) 81 The Marriage Mender (1954) 88 The Town Where No One Got Off (1958) 99 A Scent of Sarsaparilla (1953) 109 Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1956) 117 The Headpiece (1958) 128 Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1949) 146 The Smile (1952) 153 The First Night of Lent (1956) 163 The Time of Going Away (1956) 173 All Summer in a Day (1954) 182 The Gift (1952) 186 The Great Collision of Monday Last (1958) 195 The Little Mice (1955) 203 The Shore Line at Sunset (1959) (variant of The Shoreline at Sunset) 216 The Strawberry Window (1955) 227 The Day It Rained Forever (1957)