shippish

Updated: May 5, 2025

I saw this same Marionnette a week later, tied up to a Hoboken dock, where she awaited news from her owners; but even there, in the midst of all the water-front bustle, I could not get rid of the feeling that she was still very far away in a sort of shippish other-world. The thing happens now and then.

- The Best Short Stories of 1915: And the Yearbook of the American Short Story