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February 21, 2019 By Lars Peterson in Story Notes and News Tags: Amy Wentworth Stone

Whenever we publish an old story from the public domain, we like to include a note or two about the author and a link to more info — usually to Wikipedia. Unfortunately for us the ‘pedia has no entry for the author of today’s story — Amy Wentworth Stone — and we linked instead to an archive of her correspondence with the Maine State Library, which collected works by local writers (“Maine Writers”). More on that in a moment. A deeper search brought us to a couple of old Kirkus Reviews of two of her works (Treasure for Debby; Let [Read More]

Possessing Prudence

February 21, 2019 By Amy Wentworth Stone in Old Stories Tags: abominations, Amy Wentworth Stone, bible, lies

I ‘A lie’s an abomination unto the Lord a hundred and twenty-four, a lie’s an abomination unto the Lord a hundred and twenty-five, a lie’s an abomination unto the Lord a hundred and twenty-six,’ recited Prudence Jane, and paused. ‘Go on,’ said Aunt Annie, looking up from her sewing and fixing her eyes severely on the small blue back across the room. Prudence Jane, with the heels of her little ankle-ties together and her hands clasped tightly behind her, was standing in the corner, saying what was known in the family as her punish-sentence. Whenever she had been unusually naughty [Read More]