“You mustn’t be frightened,” said the nurse with a professionally cheerful smile. “You’re quite all right. You’ve hurt your shoulder and wrenched your back a bit, but there are no internal injuries, and all you have to do is lie very quietly for a few weeks.”
The girl whose midnight-black hair flowed over the pillows, framing a beautiful oval face that was almost as white as the pillow itself, lighted by two great dark eyes and the soft loveliness of a beautifully shaped mouth, looked up at the nurse, a piteous expression in her eyes. “But—I don’t seem to know where I am, or even—who I am!”
I’m back! While the rate at which I post obviously waxes and wanes, I’ve (tentatively) made it a personal goal to try to write a review at least once a month, so nothing like getting something in practically right under the wire, eh?
So, without further ado, “Girl Alone” is a short story/novelette by Peggy Gaddis, published in the December 1938 issue of Complete Love Magazine. (Again, as the issue in question hasn’t been formally digitized, you can find the story in PDF form here.) Gaddis was an extremely popular and prolific romance author of the era, beginning her career (as far as I can tell) in the pulps in the early 1920s, and then continuing with them until their demise in the 1950s. In that time she also published a great many novels (some of which were originally serialized), including a number of racy pulp paperbacks. The ’50s and ’60s saw her move into nurse romances, and she finally passed away in 1966 at the age of 71. Thegoodbadbook actually just recently reviewed her second novel, 1929’s The House of Yesterday. It has some good info and links, and I’d highly recommend the post!
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