"The Station."

Uncharacteristic of the pieces in the 1935 collection Cut and Come Again in treating neither rural nor boyhood themes, this tale explores the sexual tension between a truck-driver and a woman who owns an all-night restaurant. In John O'London's Weekly (May 18, 1935), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974). Reprinted in Tellers of Tales (1939), Argosy (October 1941 and January 1964), Courier (September 1948), Man's Magazine (December 1960), English Short Stories of My Time (1970), Treasury of Great Short Stories (1984).

ID: 
b90
Title: 
"The Station."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
17
Word Count: 
ca. 4280
Publisher: 
Argosy
Courier
John O'London's Weekly
Man's Magazine
Year of Publication: 
1935
Topic: 
Sex