Short Stories From Life
The 81 Prize Stories in “Life’s”
Shortest Story Contest
With an Introduction by
Thomas L. Masson
Managing Editor of “Life”
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1916
Copyright, 1916, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
[Introduction] By Thomas L. Masson [Thicker Than Water] (First Prize) By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne [The Answer] (Second Prize) By Harry Stillwell Edwards [Her Memory] (Third Prize Divided) By Dwight M. Wiley [Business and Ethics] (Third Prize Divided) By Redfield Ingalls [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 [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 [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 [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 [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