What A Thought

	What A Thought “What a Thought” is a short story by Shirley Jackson. It was published posthumously within the short-story collection ''Just an Ordinary Day ''Just An Ordinary Day'' is a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer Shirley Jackson, first published in 1996 by Bantam Books. Background According to Jackson's children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt, an ol ...'' in 1996. Plot Summary The story concerns a bored housewife who, while reflecting on herself, her husband, and the relationship between them, fantasizes about the potential ways in which she could kill him and worries about her future beyond his death, intermixed and accompanied by these thoughts are various anxieties and rejections of them. Throughout the story she questions why she is continuing to imagine such thoughts, the story ultimately culminating with the wife striking her husband's head with an ashtray, while denying her desire to kill him immediately before, the last line being: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to '' The New Yorker,'' with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town". The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College. After publishing her debut novel '' The Road Through the Wall'' (1948), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood in California, Jackson gained significant public atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Just An Ordinary Day ''Just An Ordinary Day'' is a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer Shirley Jackson, first published in 1996 by Bantam Books. Background According to Jackson's children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt, an old box bearing no return address (apparently discovered in a Vermont barn), mysteriously appeared on Hyman's front porch at some point during the early 1990s. Inside were the original manuscript for '' The Haunting of Hill House'', six unpublished stories, and many pages of notes. This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work entitlted ''Just An Ordinary Day'', which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had appeared in periodicals, but had never been collected in book form. Contents and brief summary of stories The intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Short Stories By Shirley Jackson Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * '' The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Short Stories Published Posthumously Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in butte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]