Breezy Stories, March 1916

# Catalog Note: Breezy Stories, Volume II, Number 1 (March 1916)

This issue of Breezy Stories contains a varied collection of short fiction, poems, and sketches. The featured novelette, "The Love-Story of a Human Cog" by Martin Kellar, chronicles a shy office worker nicknamed Oliver who, reluctant and uncomfortable with social situations, is dragged by his coworker Baldwin to a cabaret with two telephone operators. The story focuses on Oliver's awkward courtship of the tall, experienced Muriel Ward, who enjoys fine dining and cocktails. An advertisement promotes an upcoming serial, "Ashes of Embers" by Forrest Halsey (April issue), depicting a cabaret girl named Agnes who attempts to rescue her lover Dick Leigh from alcoholism while navigating social scandal. The issue includes approximately 30 additional short stories, sketches, and poems by contributors including Thomas J. Betts, Edith M. Fraker, Hazel Marjorie Smith, Ralph E. Mooney, and others, covering themes of romance, marriage, temptation, and urban life. An upcoming serial by Louise Winter, "Greater Love Than This," examines a woman's struggle between holding fast to marriage or releasing her husband.