Short stories by Harris Downey
Harris Downey (born May 12, 1907 Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. and M.A. He Served in the Air Force. He taught at Louisiana State University,[1] where he knew Lyle Saxon.[2] His work appeared in Epoch,[3]Prairie Schooner.[4][5][6]Kenyon Review,[7]
Listing 5 stories.
Imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp, an American soldier fights for his morals while succumbing to enemy threats.
A homeless man in the Southern US is accused of a crime he didn't commit. As he goes through the conviction process, he learns about the ugly truths of the American justice system and its need to punish outcasts.
Separated from his unit, an American soldier in France forms an unexpected partnership with a man who seems equally lost. Their adventures eventually lead them back to their unit, but not before they shoot down parachuters that may or may not have been their own men.
On the Great Plains, an aging farmer and his wife struggle to sell their produce amid an increase in frozen food manufacturing. The farmer must figure out how to avoid the fate of his neighbors, who were pushed out of business and into welfare dependence.
A vicar-general living in New Orleans around the late eighteenth-century has several strange encounters when he decides to go on a walk late one night in a dangerous part of town.