Serie: The Complete Short Stories Part 2 ‘Old Man at the Bridge’ is one of Ernest Hemingway’s shortest stories: short enough to be considered as perhaps more of a ‘vignette’ than a ‘story’ as such. Set during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, ‘Old Man at the Bridge’ is about an encounter between the story’s narrator and an old man in his seventies who was the last person to leave...

Serie: The Complete Short Stories Part 1 "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber Affair (1947).

About Love is the third and final short story in what is sometimes referred to as "The Little Trilogy" which includes The Man in a Case, and Gooseberries. They share the theme of missed opportunity. "I kept trying to understand why she had met him first and not me, and why such a terrible mistake in our lives need have happened."