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A compact collection of lyric sketches, reflective poems, and stories in verse that illuminate fleeting moments of urban and domestic life. Through vignette-style pieces the author observes barbershops, cafés, and crowded public spaces, probing loneliness, social exchange, and quiet moral dilemmas. Other poems turn inward to meditate on longing, rest, and mortality, sometimes adopting epistolary or conversational forms. A concluding section offers narrative metres that compress human interactions into sharp dramatic scenes. Spare language, sensory detail, and shifts between irony and tenderness bind the sections into a mosaic of early twentieth-century moods and manners.

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Title: Flashlights

Author: Mary Aldis

Release date: March 16, 2025 [eBook #75630]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Duffield & Company, 1916

Credits: The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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FLASHLIGHTS

BY
MARY ALDIS
AUTHOR OF
“THE PRINCESS JACK”
AND
“PLAYS FOR SMALL STAGES”

NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1916