{"_id":"6a0ba1de07cf1795152ad24f","title":"On the Stairs","author":"Arthur Morrison","code":"on-the-stairs","publish_year":1921,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/talesmeanstreet00morrgoog/page/n188/mode/2up","publish_source":"Tales of Mean Streets","words":1423,"image":"coffin.jpg","image_alt":"A coffin","genres":["literary"],"description":"Two women discuss a dying son and the costs of funerals.","blurb":"“Bob’ll ’ave a ’ansome buryin’, too,” she said. “I can make it up, with the insurance money, an’ this, an’ that. On’y I dunno about mutes. It’s a expense.”","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}