"Time Expired."
With a title phrase meaning that a soldier's service is completed, Bates portrays a war-weary nurse and a young soldier, injured just three days before he was to return home to Shropshire. In Voices on the Green (1945), Story (September/October 1945), Britain (September 1945), The New English Review (October, 1945), Little Reviews Anthology (1946), Colonel Julian and Other Stories (1951), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009). Reprinted in Aspects of the Short Story (1956),
Online Full Text at Hathi Trust Digital Library.
ID:
b181
Title:
"Time Expired."
Genre:
Story
Page Count:
12
Word Count:
ca. 3400
Publisher:
Britain
New English Review
Story
Year of Publication:
1945
Topic:
Asia
War
Document Type:
Full-text Online