Short Stories From Life
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82 chapters · 8 h 34 min · English
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Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maximum. The shortest story accepted, and the one where the author received the highest payout, came in at 76 words. The stories published here where considered the best of the over 30,000 submissions. This volume presents the 81 best stories including the prize winning stories: (First Prize) Thicker Than Water by Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne, (Second Prize) The Answer by Harry Stillwell Edwards, and (Third Prize - tie) Her Memory by Dwight M. Wiley and Business and Ethics by Redfield Ingalls. - Summary taken from the Preface
Chapters
1 Introduction By Thomas L. Masson 12 min 2 N. B. By Joseph Hall 5 min 3 The Clearest Call By Brevard Mays Connor 6 min 4 Greater Love Hath No Man By Selwyn Grattan 1 min 5 The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston 5 min 6 The Glory of War By M. B. Levick 8 min 7 The Aviator By Hornell Hart 5 min 8 Loyalty By Clarence Herbert New 8 min 9 Moses Comes to Burning Bush By W. T. Larned 7 min 10 Business and Ethics By Redfield Ingalls (Third Prize Divided) 6 min 11 North of Fifty-three By Mary Woodbury Caswell 7 min 12 The Old Things By Jessie Anderson Chase 8 min 13 The Forced March By Hornell Hart 6 min 14 Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah By Charles Earl Gaymon 5 min 15 The Horse Heaver By Lyman Bryson 6 min 16 The Ego of the Metropolis By Thomas T. Hoyne 8 min 17 The Gay Deceiver By Howard P. Stephenson 3 min 18 In Cold Blood By Joseph Hall 5 min 19 Housework, and the Man By Freeman Tilden 5 min 20 Her Memory By Dwight M. Wiley (Third Prize Divided) 5 min 21 His Journey's End By Ruth Sterry 4 min 22 Food for Thought By Harriet Lummis Smith 11 min 23 Hope By Edward Thomas Noonan 2 min 24 Collusion By Lincoln Steffens 6 min 25 Faithful to the End By Clair W. Perry 9 min 26 Arletta By Margaret Ade 5 min 27 Which? By Joseph Hall 1 min 28 What the Vandals Leave By Herbert Riley Howe 1 min 29 Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself By William H. Hamby 7 min 30 The Joke on Preston By Lewis Allen 6 min 31 The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan 5 min 32 Withheld By Ella B. Argo 4 min 33 Up and Down By Bertha Lowry Gwynne 7 min 34 The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize) 7 min 35 Patches By Francis E. Norris 4 min 36 The Arm at Gravelotte By William Almon Wolff 7 min 37 The Bad Man By Harry C. Goodwin 6 min 38 Nemesis By Mary Clark 8 min 39 The Black Door By Gordon Seagrove 4 min 40 The Man Who Told By John Cutler 3 min 41 The Unanswered Call By Thomas T. Hayne 9 min 42 The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke 6 min 43 The Cat That Came Back By Virginia West 8 min 44 ''Solitaire'' Bill By Arthur Felix McEachern 9 min 45 Just a Pal By Elsie D. Knisely 2 min 46 When ''Kultur'' Was Beaten By Lieutenant X 7 min 47 Presumption of Innocence By Lyman Bryson 6 min 48 A Mexican Vivandière By H. C. Washburn 10 min 49 Mother's Birthday Present By Carrie Seever 7 min 50 Red Blood or Blue By E. Montgomery 5 min 51 Impulsive Mr. Jiggs By Roger Brown 5 min 52 Tomaso and Me By Graham Clark 10 min 53 Thicker Than Water By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne (First Prize) 5 min 54 The Old Grove Crossing By Albert H. Coggins 13 min 55 Lost and Found By John Kendrick Bangs 5 min 56 You Never Can Tell By ''B. MacArthur'' 10 min 57 The Escape By A. Leslie Goodwin 2 min 58 Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins 9 min 59 The Intruder By Reginald Barlow 4 min 60 Molten Metal By Hornell Hart 4 min 61 The Winner's Loss By Elliott Flower 4 min 62 The Recoil of the Gun By Marian Parker 2 min 63 ''Man May Love'' By Robert Sharp 9 min 64 One Way, and Another By Noble May 7 min 65 The Black Patch By Randolph Hartley 7 min 66 A Shipboard Romance By Lewis Allen 4 min 67 The Coward By Philip Francis Cook 4 min 68 The Heart of a Burglar By Jane Dahl 11 min 69 The Reward By Herbert Heron 6 min 70 The First Girl By Louise Pond Jewell 9 min 71 A Sophistry of Art By Eugene Smith 11 min 72 The Message in the Air By B. R. Stevens 6 min 73 In a Garden By Catherine Runscomb 11 min 74 A Clever Catch By Lloyd F. Loux 2 min 75 Strictly Business By Lincoln Steffens 7 min 76 The Advent of the Majority By Stella Wynne Herron 6 min 77 The Night Nurse By Will S. Gidley 6 min 78 Why the Trench Was Lost By Charles F. Pietsch 6 min 79 The King of the Pledgers By H. R. R. Hertzberg 10 min 80 A Po-lice-man By Lincoln Steffens 7 min 81 The Quest of the V. C. By A. Byers Fletcher 9 min 82 Somewhere in Belgium By Percy Godfrey Savage 3 min
