interborough

Updated: May 19, 2025

Then he had been driven by boundless energy and hope the same energy and the same hope that had brought him here from his little mid-western community in the first place. Year by year, however, as custom calloused him to the only part in life he seemed fit to play, he forgot about the waste of time in the Interborough cars.

- The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story