He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.