English Literature

Unreeling by Kent Thompson

This passage is taken from a short story “unreeling”, from the text book of Kent Thomson's “Open Window” Canadian short short stories”.

In this short story the author says that Helen has left me and moved back to 1930. She is vocalizing in a log-cabin Roadhouse out on vintage Highway 42. Almost no one journeys out that way anymore. She wears an ivory tinted night gown and has marcelled her hair. Her admirer is the proprietor who occasionally presents ballroom-dancing exhibitions with her. The patrons are children who gaze in marvel - not, as Helen and her ...