O. Henry Award おーへんりーしょう
Edition 18 (1936)
Short story awardLiterature awardInclusion in anthology
Winners
1 peopleA short story built on unease and irony, where an ordinary setting is quietly disrupted by the presence of a stranger. Its force comes from the way small social gestures keep sliding into tension.
A stranger enters an ordinary scene and changes its temperature at once.
short fictionironysocial tensionunease