Impulse / Conrad Aiken -- Bottle of milk for mother / Nelson Algren -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Torch song / John Cheever -- Witch's money / John Collier -- Outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- Third prize / A.E. Coppard -- Bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- Open winter / H.L. Davis -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Soldier's home / Ernest Hemingway -- Tree of knowlege / Henry James -- Boarding house / James Joyce -- Liberty Hall / Ring Lardner -- Horse dealer's daughter / D.H Lawrence -- Virca Vay & Allan Cedar / Sinclair Lewis -- Marriage à la mode / Katherine Mansfield -- Outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- Cruel and barbarous treatment / Mary McCarthy -- Sojouner / Carson McCullers -- Open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Innocence / Seán O'Faoláin -- Nightingales sing / Elizabeth Parsons -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- Eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- Country love story / Jean Stafford -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- Red-letter day / Elizabeth Taylor -- Spinster's tale / Peter Taylor -- You could look it up / James Thurber -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Use of force / William Carlos Williams.