Why I write?: and other early prose pieces

Why I write? --

Those rapturous riflemen --

Cain --

Trapezium number two --

The house that refreshed itself in a flash --

The feat of Sts Philip and James --

Scribes and pharisees --

No escape --

The glorious legend of Wantoch --

The sufferings of Old Werther --

Protocol --

A schizophrenic gospel --

A January story --

A February story --

One great guy --

Atom prince --

The Gabriel explosion --

Made in Czechoslovakia --

Blitzkrieg --

Meetings by chance and design --

Line No. 23a --

One pretty nondescript station --

A Christening --

Be expecting me --

Toy shop --

Everyday chit-chat --

A woman in love --

One ordinary day.