The Sisters (short story) with paresis (general paralysis of the insane) when Joyce began his revisions in 1905. The priest having suffered from a sexually transmitted infection would help account for the adult society's negative opinion and disdain for him. The Sisters (short story) "The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called "Dubliners". Originally published in the "Irish Homestead" on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction. Joyce later revised the story and had it, along with the rest of the series, published in book form in 1914. ″The
The Evening News (short story collection) The Evening News (short story collection) The Evening News is Tony Ardizzone's first collection of stories, and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. The collection is a small press book published in 1986 by the University of Georgia Press. Set mostly in Chicago's blue-collar neighborhoods, these stories focus on subjects that concern or interest us all: disease and death, vandalism and sacrilege, rape and infidelity, Catholicism, baseball, lost love. A son resolves his mounting grief over his mother's imminent death by recalling the stories she has told all her life. Gino, an adolescent, believes two of his