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This story takes place in a ward for gynecological problems at a London hospital. There were 8 beds in a large room. Seven of the women had or would have …
Doris Lessing
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Writer tells about shooting for sport at her home in Southern Rhodesia, when she was a girl. Her brother was a good shot and observed all sorts of …
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Fiction, from 1955: On a farm by the Zambezi River, a woman experiences a return of the locusts—rust-colored creatures that invade the crops like smoke or a bad storm, devastating the landscape.