shelf-bunks

Updated: May 23, 2025

Fanny's lips were cracked, and the skin was peeled from her nose, and her hair was straggling and her eyes red-rimmed. She drank the tea in great gulps. And then she went into the tiny bunkroom, and tumbled into one of the shelf-bunks, and slept. When she awoke she sat up in terror, and bumped her head against the bunk above, and called, "Clancy!" "Yep!" from the next room. He came to the door.

Edna Ferber - Fanny Herself