Short Stories From Life

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward, Anthologies

Authors: Various In Year : 1916

Book Language: English

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Introduction By Thomas L. Masson
N. B. By Joseph Hall
The Clearest Call By Brevard Mays Connor
Greater Love Hath No Man By Selwyn Grattan
The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston
The Glory of War By M. B. Levick
The Aviator By Hornell Hart
Loyalty By Clarence Herbert New
Moses Comes to Burning Bush By W. T. Larned
Business and Ethics By Redfield Ingalls (Third Prize Divided)
North of Fifty-three By Mary Woodbury Caswell
The Old Things By Jessie Anderson Chase
The Forced March By Hornell Hart
Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah By Charles Earl Gaymon
The Horse Heaver By Lyman Bryson
The Ego of the Metropolis By Thomas T. Hoyne
The Gay Deceiver By Howard P. Stephenson
In Cold Blood By Joseph Hall
Housework—and the Man By Freeman Tilden
Her Memory By Dwight M. Wiley (Third Prize Divided)
His Journey’s End By Ruth Sterry
Food for Thought By Harriet Lummis Smith
Hope By Edward Thomas Noonan
Collusion By Lincoln Steffens
Faithful to the End By Clair W. Perry
Arletta By Margaret Ade
Which? By Joseph Hall
What the Vandals Leave By Herbert Riley Howe
Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself By William H. Hamby
The Joke on Preston By Lewis Allen
The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan
Withheld By Ella B. Argo
Up and Down By Bertha Lowry Gwynne
The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize)
Patches By Francis E. Norris
The Arm at Gravelotte By William Almon Wolff
The Bad Man By Harry C. Goodwin
Nemesis By Mary Clark
The Black Door By Gordon Seagrove
The Man Who Told By John Cutler
The Unanswered Call By Thomas T. Hayne
The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke
The Cat That Came Back By Virginia West
''Solitaire'' Bill By Arthur Felix McEachern
Just a Pal By Elsie D. Knisely
When ''Kultur'' Was Beaten By Lieutenant X
Presumption of Innocence By Lyman Bryson
A Mexican Vivandière By H. C. Washburn
Mother’s Birthday Present By Carrie Seever
Red Blood or Blue By E. Montgomery
Impulsive Mr. Jiggs By Roger Brown
Tomaso and Me By Graham Clark
Thicker Than Water By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne (First Prize)
The Old Grove Crossing By Albert H. Coggins
Lost and Found By John Kendrick Bangs
You Never Can Tell By ''B. MacArthur''
The Escape By A. Leslie Goodwin
Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins
The Intruder By Reginald Barlow
Molten Metal By Hornell Hart
The Winner’s Loss By Elliott Flower
The Recoil of the Gun By Marian Parker
''Man May Love'' By Robert Sharp
One Way—and Another By Noble May
The Black Patch By Randolph Hartley
A Shipboard Romance By Lewis Allen
The Coward By Philip Francis Cook
The Heart of a Burglar By Jane Dahl
The Reward By Herbert Heron
The First Girl By Louise Pond Jewell
A Sophistry of Art By Eugene Smith
The Message in the Air By B. R. Stevens
In a Garden By Catherine Runscomb
A Clever Catch By Lloyd F. Loux
Strictly Business By Lincoln Steffens
The Advent of the Majority By Stella Wynne Herron
The Night Nurse By Will S. Gidley
Why the Trench Was Lost By Charles F. Pietsch
The King of the Pledgers By H. R. R. Hertzberg
A Po-lice-man By Lincoln Steffens
The Quest of the V. C. By A. Byers Fletcher
Somewhere in Belgium By Percy Godfrey Savage

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