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Short Stories from “Life”

Short Stories from “Life”

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Title
Short stories from Life: The 81 prize stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest
Original Publication
United States: Doubleday, Page & Company,1916.
Credits
Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American fiction -- 20th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68085
Release Date
May 15, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Short Stories From Life
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION
  3. 3.N. B.
  4. 4.THE CLEAREST CALL
  5. 5.GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
  6. 6.THE GRETCHEN PLAN
  7. 7.THE GLORY OF WAR
  8. 8.THE AVIATOR
  9. 9.LOYALTY
  10. 10.MOSES COMES TO BURNING BUSH
  11. 11.BUSINESS AND ETHICS
  12. 12.NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE
  13. 13.THE OLD THINGS
  14. 14.THE FORCED MARCH
  15. 15.APPROXIMATING THE ULTIMATE WITH AUNT SARAH
  16. 16.THE HORSE HEAVER
  17. 17.THE EGO OF THE METROPOLIS
  18. 18.THE GAY DECEIVER
  19. 19.IN COLD BLOOD
  20. 20.HOUSEWORK—AND THE MAN
  21. 21.HER MEMORY
  22. 22.HIS JOURNEY’S END.
  23. 23.FOOD FOR THOUGHT
  24. 24.HOPE
  25. 25.COLLUSION
  26. 26.FAITHFUL TO THE END
  27. 27.ARLETTA
  28. 28.WHICH?
  29. 29.WHAT THE VANDALS LEAVE
  30. 30.BEN T. ALLEN, ATTY., VS. HIMSELF
  31. 31.THE JOKE ON PRESTON
  32. 32.THE IDYL
  33. 33.WITHHELD
  34. 34.UP AND DOWN
  35. 35.THE ANSWER
  36. 36.PATCHES
  37. 37.THE ARM AT GRAVELOTTE
  38. 38.THE BAD MAN
  39. 39.NEMESIS
  40. 40.THE BLACK DOOR
  41. 41.THE MAN WHO TOLD
  42. 42.THE UNANSWERED CALL
  43. 43.THE WOMEN IN THE CASE
  44. 44.THE CAT CAME BACK
  45. 45.“SOLITAIRE” BILL
  46. 46.JUST A PAL
  47. 47.WHEN “KULTUR” WAS BEATEN
  48. 48.PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
  49. 49.A MEXICAN VIVANDIÈRE
  50. 50.MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY PRESENT
  51. 51.RED BLOOD OR BLUE
  52. 52.THE IMPULSIVE MR. JIGGS
  53. 53.TOMASO AND ME
  54. 54.THICKER THAN WATER
  55. 55.THE OLD GROVE CROSSING
  56. 56.LOST AND FOUND — I — II — III
  57. 57.YOU CAN NEVER TELL
  58. 58.THE ESCAPE
  59. 59.TWO LETTERS, A TELEGRAM, AND A FINALE
  60. 60.THE INTRUDER
  61. 61.MOLTEN METAL
  62. 62.THE WINNER’S LOSS
  63. 63.THE RECOIL OF THE GUN
  64. 64.“MAN MAY LOVE”
  65. 65.ONE WAY—AND ANOTHER
  66. 66.THE BLACK PATCH
  67. 67.A SHIPBOARD ROMANCE
  68. 68.THE COWARD
  69. 69.THE HEART OF A BURGLAR
  70. 70.THE REWARD
  71. 71.THE FIRST GIRL
  72. 72.A SOPHISTRY OF ART
  73. 73.THE MESSAGE IN THE AIR
  74. 74.IN A GARDEN
  75. 75.A CLEVER CATCH
  76. 76.STRICTLY BUSINESS
  77. 77.THE ADVENT OF THE MAJORITY
  78. 78.THE NIGHT NURSE
  79. 79.WHY THE TRENCH WAS LOST
  80. 80.THE KING OF THE PLEDGERS
  81. 81.A PO-LICE-MAN
  82. 82.THE QUEST OF THE V. C.
  83. 83.SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM

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