The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant


In this story by Guy de Maupassant, an elderly mother schemes to avenge the death of her son. The mother’s actions are a character study into the morality of the concepts of vengeance and revenge.









 

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The Power of Listening

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”

~ Eudora Welty