Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories: Vol I

Steve Newman Writer
19 min readMar 14, 2023

“I had to leave…”

Image: Chicago Tribune

The Old Man at the Bridge

A Short Story from 1938

“Did you leave the cage door open?”

Over the last years I have written a good many pieces about Ernest Hemingway, including a play, and will never grow tired of doing so, for I believe him to be at the very heart of American culture…

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