Yet a fatality sometimes would direct the steps of The Withered Arm – Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm – Thomas Hardy Your free story This short story was written in the s by Thomas Hardy, a famous English writer. The story, published in Blackwood Magazine in and in the collection Wessex Tales the same year, presents the characters as victims of a malevolent power that propels them toward their doom Th e Withered Arm‘People say Farmer Lodge is bringing his new wife to the farm tomorrow,’ said a mil