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Short Stories From Life

Short Stories From Life

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Number of Chapters: 82

Length: 08 hours and 34 minutes

Language: English

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

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