Contact, and Other Stories

"Contact, and Other Stories" by Frances Noyes Hart is a set of short stories, starting with Janet Abbott, a woman dealing with a lost love with Jerry Langdon. The story looks at love, sadness, and how short encounters can affect a person. "Contact" starts in London, where Janet is staying with her sister-in-law, Rosemary. Janet thinks about her old letters to Jerry and remembers their good times, promises, and his sudden disappearance due to the war. The story moves between her loving memories and trying to move on, showing her yearning for a past connection. Airplanes and flight dreams connect with Janet's memories of Jerry and hint towards the struggle between moving on and the strong force of love.

Frances Newbold Noyes Hart was an American writer whose short stories were published in Scribner's magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal.