Author: Emily Carr

Dew and Alarm Clocks

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

Poetical extravagance over “pearly dew and daybreak” does not ring true when that most infernal of inventions, the alarm clock, wrenches you from sleep, rips a startled heart from your middle and tosses it on to an angry tongue, to make ugly splutterings not complimentary to the new morning;…

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First Tenant

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

She was a bride just returned from honeymooning, this first tenant of mine. Already she was obviously bored with a very disagreeable husband. In her heart she knew he was not proud of her. He kept his marriage to this Canadian girl secret from his English mother. The bride…

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Space

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

Roof, walls, floor can pinch to hurting while they are homing you, or they can hug and enfold. Hurt enclosed is hurting doubled; to spread misery thins it. That is why pain is easier to endure out in the open. Space draws it from you. Enclosure squeezes it close. I…

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