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In her stories there is not a single ungenerous or unkind comment. The stories at every step reflect Floriana’s nobility of soul, her charity, her simplicity, and her ceaseless flow of kindliness. Each of the stories in Out of the Ordinary has a moral to convey, but the development of the story is never obstructed by the moral. Hugh Walker aptly points out that in Hawthorne there is a perfect balance- the story is the moral. The same is true about Floriana Hall’s extraordinary short stories. Continue reading →