Literary fiction · 1 min read
Journalistically Impossible
Read the complete short story “Journalistically Impossible” by O. Henry.
“Did you report that suicide as I told you to do last night?” asked the editor of the new reporter, a graduate of a school of journalism.
“I saw the corpse, sir, but found it impossible to write a description of the affair.”
“Why?”
“How in the world was I to state that the man’s throat was cut from ear to ear when he had only one ear?”
Complete classic story. English source: Standard Ebooks. The source edition identifies the text as public domain in the United States; copyright rules vary by country.
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