Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 275, v1, 7 Oct 2026

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24 stories spanning over 120 years, and authors ranging from the famous to the unknown, in several genres. All in the Life+70 yrs public domain.

1: They Kidnapped Cecilia / Peter Cheyney
2: A Wholesale Elopement / Ed. Ward
3: The Silver Streak / Louis Arthur Cunningham
4: A Doer of the Word / Theodore Dreiser
5: The Little Lady of the New / Sam Merwin
6: Double Take / Mark Hellinger
7: The Confession / John Galt
8: The Trial of Love / Mary Shelley
9: The Weregeld / Gerald Grogan
10: When You Come Back / Louise Lane
11: Mr. Ashley's Failure / E. Phillips Oppenheim
12: The Coming of a Comet / J. S. Fletcher
13: The Hyena / Robert E. Howard
14: The Treasure by the Creek / Roderic Quinn
15: The Sacrificial Altar / Gertrude Atherton
16: The Brown Wallet / Stacy Aumonier
17: Cabbages and Kings / Irvin S. Cobb
18: Penguin Psychology / Robert Benchley
19: A Dinner at the Louvre / Arnold Bennett
20: A Corner in Lightning / George Griffith
21: The Beacon Ship of Half Moon Bay / Charles Curtz Hahn
22: Old Garbo / Dylan Thomas
23: A Child of the Rain / Elia W. Peattie
24: Hanged By the Neck / Sir Gilbert Campbell

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