A Variety of Short Stories
by John C. Schweitzer, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Thomas Wolfe, Gina Berriault, James B. Connolly, Frank R. Stockton, Ernest Hemingway
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W), by E.A. Poe. -- Journalism in Tennessee, by M. Twain. -- The lady, or the tiger? His wife's deceased sister. by F.R. Stockton. -- I can't breathe. Old folks' Christmas. by R. Lardner. -- The freshest boy, by F.S. Fitzgerald. -- Cocks must crow. The shell. by M.K. Rawlings. -- The far and the near. One of the girls in our party. By T. Wolfe. -- The stone boy, by G. Berriault. -- The trawler, by J.B. Connolly. -- The undefeated, by E. Hemingway.
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