Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist, and journalist. Her short story collections include Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), and The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944); her novel Ship of Fools was published in 1962. (March 2020)

‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’

What a victory, what triumph, what happiness to be alive, sang the letters in a chorus. The names were signed with flourishes like the circles in air of bugle notes, and they were the names of those she had loved best.

March 21, 2020