Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 279, v1, 10 Nov 2026

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23 Short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from magazines, newspapers, and other sources, amounting to a little over 100,000 words.

1: The Man and the Engine / Roderic Quinn
2: Myrtle / Ed. Ward
3: A Deal in Dynamite / "Tauwarra"
4: The Perfect End of a Day / George Barr McCutcheon
5: The Secret of Macarger's Gulch / Ambrose Bierce
6: The Vengeance of Sa'ik / Otis Adelbert Kline
7: Manhattan Holiday / Mark Hellinger
8: The Luck of a Lover / Dy Edwardson
9: Phoebus on Halzaphron / A. T. Quiller-Couch
10: The Child That Went With the Fairies / Sheridan Le Fanu
11: The Baby Party / F. Scott Fitzgerald
12: Mr. Crimson's Model Wife / Nym Crinkle
13: Three Pigs / Don Marquis
14: Lagging Feet / Beatrice Redpath
15: The Lady, or The Tiger? / Frank R. Stockton
16: The Horror at Staveley Grange / "Sapper"
17: Problem of the Motor Boat / Jacques Futrelle
18: The Mark on the Wall / Virginia Woolf
19: An Odd Freak / W. W. Jacobs
20: The Prodigal's Return / Ward Edson.
21: Seeking the Houdy / James Hogg
22: The Twelve Little Husbands / Arthur Train
23: The Lady Detective / H. de Vere Stacpoole

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