Pages from Cold Point

"Pages from Cold Point" is a short story by Paul Bowles. It was first published in the Autumn 1949 issue of Wake: The Creative Magazine. It was republished in New Directions in Prose and Poetry #11 (December 1949). It later appeared in a collection of his short fiction, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories, published by Random House in 1950. Bowles wrote the story in 1947 while aboard the MS Ferncape en route to Casablanca from New York.

A controversial work at the time of its publication—due in part to its homosexual and incestuous subject matter—"Pages from Cold Point" was not included, nor his "The Delicate Prey", in the British collection A Little Stone published by John Lehmann in 1950.

"Pages from Cold Point" figures among the works of gay fiction that emerged in American literature in the post-World War II period.