In the canon
Complete Stories
Dorothy Parker
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1995
- Pages
- Pages 460
A woman sits beside a telephone that will not ring, bargaining with God: if she can count to five hundred by fives without once looking at it, he will call. that is the entire story, and it is unbearable.
Please, God, let him telephone me now.
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