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The Phototropic Woman Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
author
:
Thomas, Annabel.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877451133
print isbn13
:
9780877451136
ebook isbn13
:
9781587292378
language
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English
subject
American fiction.
publication date
:
1981
lcc
:
PS3570.H557P5eb
ddc
:
813/.54
subject
:
American fiction.
Page i
The Phototropic Woman
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The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Prize money for the award is provided by a grant from the Iowa Art Council.
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The Phototropic Woman
Annabel Thomas
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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The previously published stories in this collection appear by permission:
"Ashur and Evir," Bastian Review (Fall 1972).
"The Hollyhock Doll," Four Quarters 22 (Summer 1973).
"The Great Tomato War," Green River Review 5 (Fall 1973).
"On Gobbler's Knob," Four Quarters 24 (Autumn 1974).
"Twister," Forum 15 (Winter 1974).
"Loaves and Fishes," South Dakota Review 13 (Summer 1975).
"The Other One," Kansas Quarterly 8 (Summer-Fall 1976).
"The Pinning," Twigs 13 (Fall 1976).
"Luther," Epoch (Winter 1976).
"Nativity," Four Quarters 26 (Summer 1977).
"Jerusha's Horses," Green River Review 10 (1979).
"Coon Hunt," Epoch (Spring 1978); The O. Henry Prize Stories 1979 (New York: Doubleday).
"Margaret and Erdine," Literary Review 23 (Fall 1979).
"The Imprisoned Woman," Prairie Schooner 53 (Fall 1979).
"The Wellspring," Forum 20 (Winter 1979).
"The Phototropic Woman," Wind/Literary Journal 10 (1980); The O. Henry Prize Stories 1981 (New York: Doubleday).
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 1981 by The University of Iowa. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Thomas, Annabel, 1929 The phototropic woman. (The Iowa School of Letters award for short fiction) I. Title. II. Series: Iowa School of Letters award for short fiction. PS3570.H557P5 813'.54 8110469 ISBN 0-87745-113-3 AACR2 ISBN 0-8745-114-1 (pbk.)
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For Bill who also unremittingly seeks the light
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Contents
The Phototropic Woman
1
Jerusha's Horses
9
Twister
15
The Other One
24
Loaves and Fishes
32
The Hollyhock Doll
42
The Pinning
54
Ashur and Evir
65
The Great Tomato War
76
Coon Hunt
81
Margaret and Erdine
89
Nativity
103
On Gobbler's Knob
113
Luther
126
The Wellspring
142
The Imprisoned Woman
160
Page 1
The Phototropic Woman
The woman was rolled up in a woolen blanket. It covered her body and even her head so that her world was warm and soft as an unborn's. When the alarm went off, she got out of bed and poked up the stove.
She put water to heat and when it was steaming she stripped to the waist and washed in the basin. She pulled a sweater over her head and plaited up her hair. While she drank a mug of strong black tea, she read the survival book.
After she put the shack in order, the woman took a coil of rope and a box of candles and walked up the sun-speckled path through the locust thicket between the green mossed rocks big as sheep sheds. She had worn the path carrying and dragging the provisions the book recommended to the cave.
The cave smelt of damp sandstone and of dust and still air. She dropped the rope beside the boxes of canned goods and was counting the candles when she heard a noise like hundreds of nine pins falling onto a wooden floor. When she turned round she saw dirt and rock pouring into the mouth of the cave. Before she could move toward it, the opening was completely closed and she stood coughing in blackness.
The woman felt her way to the boxes and found the coal oil lantern and the matches. When the wick caught, the light reflected from
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