The New Yorker this week publishes a short-short-story by one F. Scott Fitzgerald, which it rejected about 75 years ago. You can quickly
read it here. And all the background you'll need
is here at
NYT blog. The protagonist "is a widowed, 40-year-old corset saleswoman, Mrs. Hanson, whose main consolation in life is cigarettes. After being transferred to a new sales territory in the west, she discovers that social disapproval of smoking is even stronger there than it had been back east."
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