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Miss Eckhart's recitals.

Miss Eckhart plays the piano at the now vacant house. The vacant house is like a character in the story. This is a short story collection. "Junk Recital" is rather long.

"June Recital" is a long one. One of the main characters, Miss Eckhart, has given music lessons in the "Vacant House" in the story.

In "June Recital" Loch has a fever.

King MacLain deserts Snowdie and their children.

"At the Landing", featuring Jenny and Floyd.

"Livvie": Soloman marries Livvie who is only sixteen. He's much older. Soloman was a colored man. Nine years go by; he kept getting older, eventually giving out. She was still young. She enters into a relationship with Cash, Soloman's hired man.

"The Purple Hat": Is the woman in the purple hat a ghost?

"The Winds" is pretty much prose poetry, not making a lot of sense otherwise.