Short Stories
Touch of Sun and Other Stories
2011·84 pages
A collection of four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote, portraying life in turn-of-the-century American West mining communities with a lighter tone.
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A collection of four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote, portraying life in turn-of-the-century American West mining communities with a lighter tone.
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It was an evening of sudden mildness following a dry October gale. The colonel had miscalculated the temperature by one log-only one, he declared, but that had proved a pitchy one, and the chimney bellowed with flame. From end to end the room was alight with it, as if the stored-up energies of a whole pine-tree had been sacrificed in the consumption of that four-foot stick. The young persons of the house had escaped, laughing, into the fresh night air, but the colonel was hemmed in on every side...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No sexual content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Minor violence; brief mentions of conflict typical of Western settings.
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language depicted.
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No occult or magical themes depicted.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Minor social commentary on life in Western mining communities.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Minor depictions of hardship and struggle in mining life.
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