David Schwinghammer’s Reviews > The Collected Stories > Status Update

"Livvie": Soloman marries Livvie who is only sixteen. He's much older. Soloman was a colored man. Nine years go by; he kept getting older, eventually giving out. She was still young. She enters into a relationship with Cash, Soloman's hired man.

"The Purple Hat": Is the woman in the purple hat a ghost?

"The Winds" is pretty much prose poetry, not making a lot of sense otherwise.

"Asphodel": Weird characters, no plot.

"Asphodel": something about Greek columns (architecture).

"A Still Moment": Murrell, the outlaw, vs. Lorenzo, man of God.

Not much happening.

In "First Love" Aaron Burr is portrayed as a kind of hero. Really?!

In "A Worn Path" Phoenix buys a paper windmill for her "child".

In "Death of a Traveling Salesman" a traveling salesman is helped by a family when his car breaks down. He seems to be having a heart attack.