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Short Stories From Life

Various

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

Genre(s): Published 1900 onward, Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): lifemagazine (1), writing contest (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction By Thomas L. Masson	Yoganandh T	00:12:17
Play 01	N. B. By Joseph Hall	Sonia	00:04:42
Play 02	The Clearest Call By Brevard Mays Connor	Yoganandh T	00:05:50
Play 03	Greater Love Hath No Man By Selwyn Grattan	docdlmartin	00:01:04
Play 04	The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston	Winnifred Assmann	00:04:45
Play 05	The Glory of War By M. B. Levick	docdlmartin	00:08:24
Play 06	The Aviator By Hornell Hart	docdlmartin	00:04:46
Play 07	Loyalty By Clarence Herbert New	docdlmartin	00:08:14
Play 08	Moses Comes to Burning Bush By W. T. Larned	docdlmartin	00:06:31
Play 09	Business and Ethics By Redfield Ingalls (Third Prize Divided)	Winnifred Assmann	00:06:03
Play 10	North of Fifty-three By Mary Woodbury Caswell	Sonia	00:07:02
Play 11	The Old Things By Jessie Anderson Chase	Amruth	00:08:28
Play 12	The Forced March By Hornell Hart	Amruth	00:06:28
Play 13	Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah By Charles Earl Gaymon	Yoganandh T	00:05:09
Play 14	The Horse Heaver By Lyman Bryson	Yoganandh T	00:05:39
Play 15	The Ego of the Metropolis By Thomas T. Hoyne	Sarah Angelici	00:07:50
Play 16	The Gay Deceiver By Howard P. Stephenson	Yoganandh T	00:03:10
Play 17	In Cold Blood By Joseph Hall	Maria Thompson	00:05:18
Play 18	Housework—and the Man By Freeman Tilden	redrun	00:05:05
Play 19	Her Memory By Dwight M. Wiley (Third Prize Divided)	Nathali Carrera	00:05:23
Play 20	His Journey’s End By Ruth Sterry	Sarah Angelici	00:03:57
Play 21	Food for Thought By Harriet Lummis Smith	docdlmartin	00:10:55
Play 22	Hope By Edward Thomas Noonan	Laurie Banza	00:02:24
Play 23	Collusion By Lincoln Steffens	docdlmartin	00:06:13
Play 24	Faithful to the End By Clair W. Perry	Greg Giordano	00:08:58
Play 25	Arletta By Margaret Ade	Sonia	00:04:31
Play 26	Which? By Joseph Hall	CPaine	00:01:29
Play 27	What the Vandals Leave By Herbert Riley Howe	Richard Stibbard	00:01:20
Play 28	Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself By William H. Hamby	Greg Giordano	00:06:47
Play 29	The Joke on Preston By Lewis Allen	Gillian Hendrie	00:06:02
Play 30	The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan	Richard Stibbard	00:04:34
Play 31	Withheld By Ella B. Argo	CPaine	00:03:35
Play 32	Up and Down By Bertha Lowry Gwynne	Gillian Hendrie	00:07:15
Play 33	The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize)	Laurie Banza	00:07:10
Play 34	Patches By Francis E. Norris	Laurie Banza	00:04:13
Play 35	The Arm at Gravelotte By William Almon Wolff	docdlmartin	00:06:35
Play 36	The Bad Man By Harry C. Goodwin	Amruth	00:05:31
Play 37	Nemesis By Mary Clark	Amruth	00:08:04
Play 38	The Black Door By Gordon Seagrove	Sonia	00:03:52
Play 39	The Man Who Told By John Cutler	Laurie Banza	00:02:42
Play 40	The Unanswered Call By Thomas T. Hayne	Greg Giordano	00:09:00
Play 41	The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke	Leah Emery	00:05:50
Play 42	The Cat That Came Back By Virginia West	Winnifred Assmann	00:07:38
Play 43	''Solitaire'' Bill By Arthur Felix McEachern	docdlmartin	00:09:02
Play 44	Just a Pal By Elsie D. Knisely	Laurie Banza	00:02:03
Play 45	When ''Kultur'' Was Beaten By Lieutenant X	Richard Stibbard	00:06:32
Play 46	Presumption of Innocence By Lyman Bryson	Adyn Garcia	00:05:53
Play 47	A Mexican Vivandière By H. C. Washburn	docdlmartin	00:10:16
Play 48	Mother’s Birthday Present By Carrie Seever	Henneh Udtuhan	00:07:15
Play 49	Red Blood or Blue By E. Montgomery	Nicole Maholy	00:05:20
Play 50	Impulsive Mr. Jiggs By Roger Brown	nighthawks	00:05:27
Play 51	Tomaso and Me By Graham Clark	Greg Giordano	00:10:03
Play 52	Thicker Than Water By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne (First Prize)	Greg Giordano	00:05:03
Play 53	The Old Grove Crossing By Albert H. Coggins	Marreran	00:13:26
Play 54	Lost and Found By John Kendrick Bangs	Marreran	00:05:08
Play 55	You Never Can Tell By ''B. MacArthur''	Marreran	00:10:06
Play 56	The Escape By A. Leslie Goodwin	Greg Giordano	00:02:11
Play 57	Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins	Greg Giordano	00:08:40
Play 58	The Intruder By Reginald Barlow	docdlmartin	00:04:02
Play 59	Molten Metal By Hornell Hart	Sonia	00:04:25
Play 60	The Winner’s Loss By Elliott Flower	Laurie Banza	00:04:00
Play 61	The Recoil of the Gun By Marian Parker	Grai	00:02:30
Play 62	''Man May Love'' By Robert Sharp	Allison B	00:09:03
Play 63	One Way—and Another By Noble May	redrun	00:07:29
Play 64	The Black Patch By Randolph Hartley	Claudia Caldi	00:07:11
Play 65	A Shipboard Romance By Lewis Allen	docdlmartin	00:03:32
Play 66	The Coward By Philip Francis Cook	Nicole Maholy	00:04:27
Play 67	The Heart of a Burglar By Jane Dahl	BookBard	00:10:39
Play 68	The Reward By Herbert Heron	Grai	00:06:18
Play 69	The First Girl By Louise Pond Jewell	docdlmartin	00:09:22
Play 70	A Sophistry of Art By Eugene Smith	docdlmartin	00:10:42
Play 71	The Message in the Air By B. R. Stevens	docdlmartin	00:06:07
Play 72	In a Garden By Catherine Runscomb	dc	00:11:07
Play 73	A Clever Catch By Lloyd F. Loux	Tammy Leon	00:02:24
Play 74	Strictly Business By Lincoln Steffens	Rob E. Brown	00:06:43
Play 75	The Advent of the Majority By Stella Wynne Herron	Greg Giordano	00:06:16
Play 76	The Night Nurse By Will S. Gidley	docdlmartin	00:05:41
Play 77	Why the Trench Was Lost By Charles F. Pietsch	nighthawks	00:05:41
Play 78	The King of the Pledgers By H. R. R. Hertzberg	docdlmartin	00:09:30
Play 79	A Po-lice-man By Lincoln Steffens	redrun	00:07:29
Play 80	The Quest of the V. C. By A. Byers Fletcher	docdlmartin	00:09:19
Play 81	Somewhere in Belgium By Percy Godfrey Savage	Alan Mapstone	00:03:21

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