If you have a couple of hours and want to be thouroughly entertained, then i have three great stories by a fantastic juggernaut writer. "Bernice Bobs her Hair", "The Sensible Thing", and "The Ice Palace".
In Bernice, you get a tale of a couple of girls trying to be popular, mainly with the young men, and their struggles that come between them after the popular girl makes her cousin, the not so popular one, extremely popular. The mishaps insue and revenge is bittersweet.
In The Sensible Thing, we follow the exploits of young Goerge Rollins/O'Kelly as he tries to court his Tennessee sweetheart into marriage.(Eventual Marriage). The dismal path is complex and is fun to sort out. It keeps you guessing but do they, do they give in to eachother and finally agree to get married. It carried George all the way to Peru. You tell me.
In The Ice Palace you have a northern chap trying to snare him a southern bell. He gets her to come to the north during the dead of winter to announce their engagement and they visit the local winter attraction, an Ice Palace. In its basement their is a Maze and as he leads a group of friends through its chambers he loses her and doesn't notice. She figures he is joking and will come back for her at any moment but he doesn't. What happens next, read to find out.
These three should get you stimulated enough so get a hold of some Fitzgerald and get reading!
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If your looking for another great F. Scott Fitzgerald tale read the Off-shore pirate. A girl and her rich Uncle argue over her future while they vacation on a large yacht. The US Navy is forced to intervene so not all goes well. This is a funny and semi-romantic tale by one of the greatest masters of the short story.
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