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Hemingway's
Dilemma
a serial by
Forrest Barriger
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A struggling writer finds himself, impossibly, face to face with modern
incarnation of the legendary author, Ernest Hemingway.
He looked like Ernest Hemingway, but that couldn't be
- Obviously. Hemingway was dead; had been for years.
She can't be everywhere all the time
- It was one of those advertising flyers magazines send out, trying for more subscribers. This was for one of the major review publications, full of events and happenings and reviews of current books. They had reprinted, in this flyer, excerpts of book reviews printed in past issues. I found the one he wanted me to see, the review of an originally unfinished novel begun by Hemingway. It had been discovered in his papers long after his death and was finished by someone else.
Almighty, huh? - The rain started again while I was changing clothes. It pounded down in sheets and spilled off the eaves in rivulets, in streams. It slackened just before I'd gotten ready to leave but the wind strengthened. It got to howling around the cabin, escalating now and then to an all-out roar, then slacking off again, but not for long. And all through this the lightning and thunder continued, flashing and thumping, now near, now farther away.