Short stories by Allan Seager
Allan Seager was an American novelist and short story writer based in Michigan. He was the author of books like Equinox, The Inheritance, and Hilda Manning, and his stories were published in such leading magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Esquire. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, he taught creative writing to generations of students at the University of Michigan from 1935 up until his death in 1968.
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Listing 5 stories.
After a bartender falls into a ditch on her walk home, a shy bar patron walks her home every night and feelings begin to develop between them.
A jobless father attempts his best to care for his family, but when he begins to take his young son to play games and music at pubs, the son develops a destructive habit.
After several months of too-quiet work at his first job in Tennessee, a young man finds himself inches from unexpected violence.
A sanitarium patient helps his neighbor grapple with guilt after a romantic tryst in Paris.
A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.