Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 234, v1, 4 Sep 2025

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23 stories, authors ranging from literary (F Scott Fitzgerald, Miles Franklin, Joseph Conrad, Booth Tarkington) through pulp (James Oliver Curwood, Albert Dorrington, Dick Donovan) to eccentric (Ernest R Suffling). Around 100,000 words, all in the Life + 70 yrs public domain.

1: Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald
2: The Armadi Vase / E. Phillips Oppenheim
3: Tough Guy Sammy / Mark Hellinger
4: Terrible Uncle James / Edward Dyson
5: Almost a Crime / Frances Henshaw Baden
6: The Red Kangaroo / Ethel Castilla
7: Of Love / Miles Franklin
8: In The Small Hours / Ernest O'Ferrall
9: The Gift of the Magi / O. Henry
10: The Happy Forger / Albert Dorrington
11: The Great Ruby Robbery / Dick Donovan
12: Parpon the Dwarf / Gilbert Parker
13: The Woman With The Hood / L. T. Meade
14: The Hunted Man / Vernon Ralston
15: The Fiddling Man / James Oliver Curwood
16: Il Conde / Joseph Conrad
17: "Aurore" / Ethel Watts Mumford
18: A Hasty Judgment / Hume Nisbet
19: 3 Mistakes / William Merriam Rouse
20: The Child Who Loved a Grave / Fitz-James O'Brien
21: Mrs. Sweeny's Suitor / Charles R. Barnes
22: Creating the Ideel / Booth Tarkington
23: A Visitor From Mars / Ernest R. Suffling

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