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Some World Far from Ours

Sylvia Townsend Warner

First published 1929
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A housekeeper working in a motel primarily used for quick sexual assignations spends much of her time reading romances, the sort she does not have in her mundane marriage. One day in entering a darkened hotel room to change the sheets, the combination of the darkness, and sparkles of light make her imagine she is in such a fantastical world. But, turning the lights on, the scene is revealed for the mundane after all.

Non-genre short story.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1929 Cover Some World Far from Ours and 'Stay Corydon, Thou Swain' Elkin Mathews & Marrot Collection 3
1932 The Salutation The Viking Press Collection 1
June 2000 Cover The Salutation Tartarus Press Collection