In the canon
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1951
- Pages
- Pages 160
The town is dreary: a cotton mill, two-room houses, a main street a hundred yards long, and one boarded-up building where a face sometimes shows at an upstairs window and then withdraws. It was a café once.
If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.
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