In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled "in ""our time," the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway's story collection" In Our Time." Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in "Hemingway's Laboratory," reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway's. Further, they provide a vivid view of his earliest tendencies and influences, first manifestations of the style that would become his hallmark, and daring departures into narrative forms that he would forever leave behind.