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
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N. B. By Joseph Hall
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The Clearest Call By Brevard Mays Connor
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Greater Love Hath No Man By Selwyn Grattan
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The Gretchen Plan By William Johnston
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The Glory of War By M. B. Levick
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The Aviator By Hornell Hart
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Loyalty By Clarence Herbert New
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Moses Comes to Burning Bush By W. T. Larned
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Business and Ethics By Redfield Ingalls (Third Prize Divided)
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North of Fifty-three By Mary Woodbury Caswell
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The Old Things By Jessie Anderson Chase
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The Forced March By Hornell Hart
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Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah By Charles Earl Gaymon
15:
The Horse Heaver By Lyman Bryson
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The Ego of the Metropolis By Thomas T. Hoyne
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The Gay Deceiver By Howard P. Stephenson
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In Cold Blood By Joseph Hall
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Housework—and the Man By Freeman Tilden
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Her Memory By Dwight M. Wiley (Third Prize Divided)
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His Journey’s End By Ruth Sterry
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Food for Thought By Harriet Lummis Smith
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Hope By Edward Thomas Noonan
24:
Collusion By Lincoln Steffens
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Faithful to the End By Clair W. Perry
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Arletta By Margaret Ade
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Which? By Joseph Hall
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What the Vandals Leave By Herbert Riley Howe
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Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself By William H. Hamby
30:
The Joke on Preston By Lewis Allen
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The Idyl By Joseph F. Whelan
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Withheld By Ella B. Argo
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Up and Down By Bertha Lowry Gwynne
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The Answer By Harry Stillwell Edwards (Second Prize)
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Patches By Francis E. Norris
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The Arm at Gravelotte By William Almon Wolff
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The Bad Man By Harry C. Goodwin
38:
Nemesis By Mary Clark
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The Black Door By Gordon Seagrove
40:
The Man Who Told By John Cutler
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The Unanswered Call By Thomas T. Hayne
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The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke
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The Cat That Came Back By Virginia West
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''Solitaire'' Bill By Arthur Felix McEachern
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Just a Pal By Elsie D. Knisely
46:
When ''Kultur'' Was Beaten By Lieutenant X
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Presumption of Innocence By Lyman Bryson
48:
A Mexican Vivandière By H. C. Washburn
49:
Mother’s Birthday Present By Carrie Seever
50:
Red Blood or Blue By E. Montgomery
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Impulsive Mr. Jiggs By Roger Brown
52:
Tomaso and Me By Graham Clark
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Thicker Than Water By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne (First Prize)
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The Old Grove Crossing By Albert H. Coggins
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Lost and Found By John Kendrick Bangs
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You Never Can Tell By ''B. MacArthur''
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The Escape By A. Leslie Goodwin
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Two Letters, a Telegram, and a Finale By H. S. Haskins
