Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 274, v1, 29 Sep 2026

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26 short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, culled from newspapers, magazines, and other sources: humour, crime, romance, and other...

1: The P. J. Syndicate / J. J. Bell
2: Full Fathoms Deep / Fred M. White
3: The Girl in the Night Club Raid / Edgar Wallace
4: The Deception of Miss Cecelia / Ed. Ward
5: Telemachus, Friend / O. Henry
6: The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows / Rudyard Kipling
7: Silver Bird's Flight / Gordon Stiles
8: When the Family Were Away / Robert H. Rohde
9: Doing Good / Ernest O'Ferrall
10: An Experiment With Policeman Hogan / Stephen Leacock
11: The Remittance Man / Izola Forrester
12: "Potatoes and Diamonds." / Sumner Locke
13: Natural Causes / Ian Hay
14: Drusilla versus a Ghilly- fish / Louis Arthur Cunningham
15: Circus Tricks / Len Lower
16: The Heppswell Smoke Controller / George Carling
17: Police! Police! / Beatrice Grimshaw
18: An Original Revenge / W. C. Morrow
19: The Next-to-Last Laugh / Raoul Whitfield
20: An Ordeal By Fire / Richard Dehan
21: Restitution / Warwick Deeping
22: Flattering Testimonials / W. Pett Ridge
23: Sandy Gullick / E. Temple Thurston
24: Don't Stir / Douglas Newton
25: John Merryman's Proposal / Lilian Quiller-Couch
26: Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left / Henry Lawson

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