superpointed

Updated: May 25, 2025

The exceptional lot of Barbel's superpointed pins seemed to pierce our very souls. A dreadful vision rose before me of an impending fall and crash, in which our domestic happiness should vanish, and our prospects for our boy be wrecked, just as we had begun to build them up. My wife approached me and took my hand in hers, which was as cold as ice. "Be strong and firm," she said.

Frank Richard Stockton - A Chosen Few: Short Stories