 She screamed in her sleep and sat up crying for deliverance from her torments. Dicey came, her cross, sleepy eyes half-closed, her big dark mouth pouted, thumping the floor with her thick bare feet. "I swear," she said, in a violent hoarse whisper. "What...  Let's Hear It: Stories by Texas Women Writers - Page 164edited by - 2003 - 422 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Katherine Anne Porter - Short stories, American - 1969 - 184 pages
...she said, in a violent hoarse whisper. "What the matter with you? You need a good spankin, I swearl Wakin everybody up like this . . ." Miranda was completely...Dicey ain't mad at nobody . . . nobody in the whole worT. . . ."" The Last Leaf a "LD NANNIE sat hunched upon herself expecting her own death momentarily.... | |
 | Katherine Anne Porter - Fiction - 1979 - 508 pages
...the bitter terrified face of the man in blowsy white falling to his death — ah, the cruel joke! — and the terrible grimace of the unsmiling dwarf. She...Dicey ain't mad at nobody . . . nobody in the whole worP . , ." THE LAST LEAF Old Nannie sat hunched upon herself expecting her own death momentarily.... | |
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