Albert Vogel was a bachelor who lived a quiet life working in his Uncle Will's store. He was very proud of the fact that years before he had loaned his friend Joe eleven dollars to go to Chicago and earn his fortune years before. Joe had become very…
In this striking story, a family is stunned at "Grandma's" appearance in her casket. Who is this person, her three married daughters wonder. She had lived their life so long---never her own. They "never thought of her a a person in herself." But her…
Character study of a sensitive, ambitious girl in a small Iowa town. She is the only girl in a small, fairly well-to-do family and has always been expected "to do something" - what it is to be she gropingly tries to find out. Very realistic,…
The Kramer Girls is a story about three sisters, and the choices they make. It is written by Ruth Suckow, who is sometimes called a regional writer and at other times called a realistic writer. She has a gift for dialogue and description that still…
This is the story of two sisters - Toldene and Henrietta. Toldene lives a contented spinster life with her cat. Her widowed sister, Henrietta, lives next door with her daughter and daughter's family. She does not share her sister's calm self-content.
In Suckow’s short story “The Renters,” honest, hardworking renter Fred Mutchler and his wife face a series of misfortunes. Their bad luck is enhanced by the fact that “Old Lady Hunt,” who lives in town, would rather have her grand…
