“He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.”

— O. Henry

"The Plutonian Fire"
The Voice of the City (1908)

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American short story writer 1862–1910

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