Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.
I climb the towers and towers to watch out the barbarous land. Within a framework of realism, in a world of sex and blood, of poverty and poetry, Miss Oates's characters live their passions in stories that have already brought their brilliant young author two awards, won places in the O. Henry Awards Anthology and Martha Foley's The Best American Short Stories 1963, as well as publication in the Southwest Review, the Colorado Quarterly, and Mademoiselle.