Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 255, v1, 5 April 2026

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22 short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, gathered from newspapers, magazines and other sources. This issue is a little over 100,000 words.

1: The Christmas Goose / Sydney Horler
2: Vogue la Galère! / William Le Queux
3: Why They Married / Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
4: Under the Lens / F. Britten Austin
5: The Undoing of Smiles / Con Drew
6: A Crook in Arcady / Sydney Horler
7: Dogs Always Know / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
8: The Picture in the House / H. P. Lovecraft
9: Many Waters Cannot Quench Love / Louisa Baldwin
10: Rolling Stone / William le Queux
11: The Story of the Rippling Train / Mrs. Molesworth
12: The Officer's Lady / "Tauwarra"
13: Cemetery Bait / Damon Runyon
14: An Exploration Enterprise / Barry Pain
15: The Time Lock / George Kibbe Turner
16: The Life Polar Expedition / Robert Benchley
17: A Bottomless Grave / Ambrose Bierce
18: Hard-Boiled / Mark Hellinger
19: Hands of Death / Algernon Blackwood
20: An Old Wastrel / Katharine Tynan
21: A Gentle Ghost / Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
22: The Valley of Golden Silence / Beatrice Grimshaw

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