My Selection — “The Egg”

A short story by Sherwood Anderson

“The complete and final triumph of the egg — at least as far as my family is concerned.” Photo by Walter Bowne.

Sherwood Anderson was not the first to discover the tragic and hilarious elements of an egg. After all, that semantic pundit, that hard speaking hard shell, Humpty Dumpty once had his Great Fall. However, we usually do not associate eggs and tragedy.

I usually think breakfast.