Short Stories From Life


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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 (8 hr 34 min)

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Introduction By Thomas L. Masson 12:17 Leído por Yoganandh T
N. B. By Joseph Hall 4:42 Leído por Sonia
The Clearest Call By Brevard Mays Connor 5:50 Leído por Yoganandh T
Greater Love Hath No Man By Selwyn Grattan 1:04 Leído por docdlmartin
The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston 4:45 Leído por Winnifred Assmann
The Glory of War By M. B. Levick 8:24 Leído por docdlmartin
The Aviator By Hornell Hart 4:46 Leído por docdlmartin
Loyalty By Clarence Herbert New 8:14 Leído por docdlmartin
Moses Comes to Burning Bush By W. T. Larned 6:31 Leído por docdlmartin
Business and Ethics By Redfield Ingalls (Third Prize Divided) 6:03 Leído por Winnifred Assmann
North of Fifty-three By Mary Woodbury Caswell 7:02 Leído por Sonia
The Old Things By Jessie Anderson Chase 8:28 Leído por Amruth
The Forced March By Hornell Hart 6:28 Leído por Amruth
Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah By Charles Earl Gaymon 5:09 Leído por Yoganandh T
The Horse Heaver By Lyman Bryson 5:39 Leído por Yoganandh T
The Ego of the Metropolis By Thomas T. Hoyne 7:50 Leído por Sarah Angelici
The Gay Deceiver By Howard P. Stephenson 3:10 Leído por Yoganandh T
In Cold Blood By Joseph Hall 5:18 Leído por Maria Thompson
Housework—and the Man By Freeman Tilden 5:05 Leído por redrun
Her Memory By Dwight M. Wiley (Third Prize Divided) 5:23 Leído por Nathali Carrera
His Journey’s End By Ruth Sterry 3:57 Leído por Sarah Angelici
Food for Thought By Harriet Lummis Smith 10:55 Leído por docdlmartin
Hope By Edward Thomas Noonan 2:24 Leído por Laurie Banza
Collusion By Lincoln Steffens 6:13 Leído por docdlmartin
Faithful to the End By Clair W. Perry 8:58 Leído por Greg Giordano
Arletta By Margaret Ade 4:31 Leído por Sonia
Which? By Joseph Hall 1:29 Leído por CPaine
What the Vandals Leave By Herbert Riley Howe 1:20 Leído por Richard Stibbard
Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself By William H. Hamby 6:47 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Joke on Preston By Lewis Allen 6:02 Leído por Gillian Hendrie
The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan 4:34 Leído por Richard Stibbard
Withheld By Ella B. Argo 3:35 Leído por CPaine
Up and Down By Bertha Lowry Gwynne 7:15 Leído por Gillian Hendrie
The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize) 7:10 Leído por Laurie Banza
Patches By Francis E. Norris 4:13 Leído por Laurie Banza
The Arm at Gravelotte By William Almon Wolff 6:35 Leído por docdlmartin
The Bad Man By Harry C. Goodwin 5:31 Leído por Amruth
Nemesis By Mary Clark 8:04 Leído por Amruth
The Black Door By Gordon Seagrove 3:52 Leído por Sonia
The Man Who Told By John Cutler 2:42 Leído por Laurie Banza
The Unanswered Call By Thomas T. Hayne 9:00 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke 5:50 Leído por Leah Emery
The Cat That Came Back By Virginia West 7:38 Leído por Winnifred Assmann
''Solitaire'' Bill By Arthur Felix McEachern 9:02 Leído por docdlmartin
Just a Pal By Elsie D. Knisely 2:03 Leído por Laurie Banza
When ''Kultur'' Was Beaten By Lieutenant X 6:32 Leído por Richard Stibbard
Presumption of Innocence By Lyman Bryson 5:53 Leído por Adyn Garcia
A Mexican Vivandière By H. C. Washburn 10:16 Leído por docdlmartin
Mother’s Birthday Present By Carrie Seever 7:15 Leído por Henneh Udtuhan
Red Blood or Blue By E. Montgomery 5:20 Leído por Nicole Maholy
Impulsive Mr. Jiggs By Roger Brown 5:27 Leído por nighthawks
Tomaso and Me By Graham Clark 10:03 Leído por Greg Giordano
Thicker Than Water By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne (First P… 5:03 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Old Grove Crossing By Albert H. Coggins 13:26 Leído por Marreran
Lost and Found By John Kendrick Bangs 5:08 Leído por Marreran
You Never Can Tell By ''B. MacArthur'' 10:06 Leído por Marreran
The Escape By A. Leslie Goodwin 2:11 Leído por Greg Giordano
Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins 8:40 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Intruder By Reginald Barlow 4:02 Leído por docdlmartin
Molten Metal By Hornell Hart 4:25 Leído por Sonia
The Winner’s Loss By Elliott Flower 4:00 Leído por Laurie Banza
The Recoil of the Gun By Marian Parker 2:30 Leído por Grai
''Man May Love'' By Robert Sharp 9:03 Leído por Allison B
One Way—and Another By Noble May 7:29 Leído por redrun
The Black Patch By Randolph Hartley 7:11 Leído por Claudia Caldi
A Shipboard Romance By Lewis Allen 3:32 Leído por docdlmartin
The Coward By Philip Francis Cook 4:27 Leído por Nicole Maholy
The Heart of a Burglar By Jane Dahl 10:39 Leído por BookBard
The Reward By Herbert Heron 6:18 Leído por Grai
The First Girl By Louise Pond Jewell 9:22 Leído por docdlmartin
A Sophistry of Art By Eugene Smith 10:42 Leído por docdlmartin
The Message in the Air By B. R. Stevens 6:07 Leído por docdlmartin
In a Garden By Catherine Runscomb 11:07 Leído por dc
A Clever Catch By Lloyd F. Loux 2:24 Leído por Tammy Leon
Strictly Business By Lincoln Steffens 6:43 Leído por Rob E. Brown
The Advent of the Majority By Stella Wynne Herron 6:16 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Night Nurse By Will S. Gidley 5:41 Leído por docdlmartin
Why the Trench Was Lost By Charles F. Pietsch 5:41 Leído por nighthawks
The King of the Pledgers By H. R. R. Hertzberg 9:30 Leído por docdlmartin
A Po-lice-man By Lincoln Steffens 7:29 Leído por redrun
The Quest of the V. C. By A. Byers Fletcher 9:19 Leído por docdlmartin
Somewhere in Belgium By Percy Godfrey Savage 3:21 Leído por Alan Mapstone