Index of Short Stories from
Edward J. O'Brien's
THE BEST SHORT STORIES (1915 - 1917)

Stories, Listed by Author

CHEKHOV, ANTON (Pavlovich) (1860-1904)

• * Dushitchka, (ss) The Pagan Sep 1917
• * A Gentleman Friend, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Apr 21 1916
• * Old Age, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Feb 2 1917
• * On the Perils of Pestilent Playwrights, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Nov 20 1915
• * The Thickest Hide, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Apr 26 1916
• * Trouble, (ss) The Russian Review May 1916
• * The Trousseau, (ss)
  • Touchstone Aug 1917

CHENAULT, FLETCHER

• * Strategy Wins, (ss) Colliers Mar 31 1917
• * The Young Man from Texas, (ss) Colliers Jun 23 1917

CHESLEY, A. C.

• * The Diamond Ring, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 14 1915

CHESNEY, PHILIP

• * The Black Prince and Miriam, (ss) Lippincott’s May 1915

CHESTER, GEORGE RANDOLPH (1869-1924)

• * The Edge of the Boom, (ss) Colliers May 8 1915
• * Fundamental Justice, (ss) Colliers Jul 25 1914
• * The Heavenly Spat, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Jan 1917
• * Indignation Runs High, (ss) Colliers Sep 19 1914
• * A Scropper Patcher, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1916
• * The Smash in the Ear, (ss) Colliers Jul 11 1914

CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN (1881-1935)

• * After All, (ss) Colliers Jun 17 1916
• * The Chasm, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 8 1917
• * The Dead Canary, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1916
• * Eagle Shannon Assists Mr. Sleed, (ss) Colliers May 12 1917
• * Eagle Shannon Creates a Belief, (ss) Colliers Dec 2 1916
• * Eagle Shannon Deals a Blow at Progress, (ss) Colliers Jun 16 1917
• * Eagle Shannon Finishes, (ss) Colliers Aug 19 1916
• * Eagle Shannon Gives a Treatment, (ss) Colliers Feb 10 1917
• * Eagle Shannon Meets the Ivory Woman, (ss) Colliers Apr 14 1917
• * Eagle Shannon Ropes One, (ss) Colliers Jul 29 1916
• * Eagle Shannon, the Devil and the Hindmost, (ss) Colliers Sep 16 1916
• * Elsie, (ss) Colliers Jul 3 1915
• * Faith, (ss) Every Week Dec 31 1917
• * For Freedom, (ss) Colliers Nov 27 1915
• * Forever and Ever, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1917
• * God’s Laugh, (ss) Colliers Mar 17 1917
• * The Gorilla, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1915
• * Hard of Head, (ss) Every Week Jan 22 1917
• * The Hat Girl at the Ambervelt, (ss) Ladies Home Journal May 1916
• * He Looked Like a Fighter, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 9 1915
• * Her Boy, (ss) Every Week Oct 15 1917
• * Her Countenance, (ss) Hearst’s Magazine Oct 1917
• * Her Dark Past, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 27 1915
• * Her Negatives, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 19 1915
• * The Last of the Family, (ss) Colliers May 2 1914
• * Love Is Love, (ss) Every Week Mar 12 1917
• * Made of Steel, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 15 1915
• * “My Boy”, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 17 1915
• * No Man Knows, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 27 1915
• * Not in the Dispatches, (ss) Colliers Apr 3 1915
• * On the Other Hand, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 26 1916
• * One Feels It, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 1 1915
• * One of the Chosen, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 1916
• * The Pflumpadink, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 27 1916
• * The Phoenix, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 28 1914
• * Pode, (ss) Colliers Mar 6 1915
• * The Round Table, (ss) Colliers Dec 11 1915
• * Some Good, (ss) Every Week Jan 24 1916
• * That’s Good, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 29 1915
• * The Vampire, (ss) Every Week Sep 6 1915
• * The Velvet Black, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 31 1915
• * Very Truly Yours, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 4 1915
• * The Young Woman in the Picture, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jul 1916

CHIRIKOV, EVGENIY

• * The Past, (ss) The Russian Review Jan 1917

CHITTENDEN, GERALD (1882-?)

• * A Business Ptoposition, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1916
• * The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1914

CHOLMONDELEY, MARY (1859-1925)

• * The Ghost of a Chance, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1916

CHRISTIE, HENRY CHRISTOPHER

• * The Sponge-Spoilers, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jan 1914
• * The Turtlers, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Apr 1914

CLANCY, EUGENE A. (1882-1952)

• * The Cleansing Tears, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1915
• * The One Great Thing, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1914

CLARK, IMOGEN

• * Michael Comes Into His Own, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916

CLARK, RUTH

• * Fireworks, (ss) The Smart Set Jul 1915

CLARKE, KENNETH B.

• * The Blue Tattooing, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 15 1915
• * It Being Sunday, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1915

CLARKE, LAWRENCE

• * The Gray Guest, (ss) The Century Dec 1914

CLARKE, W. J.

• * In the Sunny South, (ss) Life Mar 16 1916

CLEGHORN, SARAH NORCLIFFE (1876-?)

• * “Mr. Charles Raleigh Rawdon, Ma’am”, (ss) The Century Feb 1917

CLIFFORD, [Sir] HUGH (Charles) (1866-1941)

• * The Lone Hand Raid, (ss) Short Stories Aug 1916
• * “Our Trusty and Well-Beloved”, (ss) Short Stories Apr 1917

CLIFFORD, MRS. W(illiam) K(ingdon) [i.e., Lucy Lane Clifford] (1853-1929)

• * The Ghost on the Stairs, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1914
• * The Quenching, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1917

CLOSSER, MYRA JO

• * At the Gate, (ss) The Century Mar 1917

CLOUD, VIRGINIA WOODWARD

• * The Boy Without a Name, (ss) The Bellman Jun 30 1917
• * Her Arabian Night, (ss) The Bellman Aug 11 1917

COBB, IRVIN S(hrewsbury) (1876-1944)

• * According to the Code, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 15 1916
• * And There Was Light, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1916
• * Blacker than Sin, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27 1915
• * A Blending of the Parables, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 28 1915
• * Boys Will Be Boys, (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1917
• * A Card to the Public, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 1914
• * A Chapter from the Life of an Ant, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 11 1916
• * Cinnamon Seed and Sandy Bottom, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 9 1917
• * The Cure for Lonesomeness, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 4 1916
• * Doub1e-Barreled Justice, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 8 1916
• * Enter the Villain, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1916
• * Ex-Fightin’ Billy, (ss) Pictorial Review Jun 1917
• * The Eyes of the World, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 15 1916
• * The Family Tree, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 24 1917
• * Fibble, D.D., Takes Pen in Hand, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 25 1915
• * Field of Honor, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1916
• * First Corinthians: Chapter XIII, Verse 4, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 12 1916
• * The Garb of Men, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 1917
• * The Great Auk, (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1916
• * Hark! From the Tombs, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 14 1917
• * Judge Priest Comes Back, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 7 1915
• * A Kiss for Kindness, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 7 1917
• * The Last Charge of Forrest’s Cavalry, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 13 1915
• * Local Color, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 8 1914
• * The Lord Provides, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 9 1915
• * Lover’s Leap, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 7 1916
• * Mr. Felsburg Gets Even, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 9 1916
• * Persona au Gratin, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 22 1916
• * Quality Folks, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 24 1917
• * The Smart Aleck, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 18 1914
• * Smooth Crossing, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 22 1914
• * The Undoing of Stonewall Jackson Bugg, (ss) McClure’s Sep 1915

COCKE, SARAH (Cobb) J(ohnson) (1865-?)

• * Men-Fokes’ Doin’s, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 27 1917
• * The Rooster and the Washpot, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 2 1917

CODY, ROSALIE M.

• * Thankful (with Jacquette H. Eaton), (ss) The Youth’s Companion Nov 22 1917

COHEN, INEZ LOPEZ; [Mrs. Octavus Roy Cohen]; see pseudonym Inez Lopez

COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY (1891-1959)

• * Curly Locks, (ss) Every Week Aug 2 1915
• * Fair Play, (ss) Colliers Nov 24 1917
• * The False Alarm, (ss) Colliers Apr 17 1915
• * The Fool Maker, (ss) Every Week Sep 20 1915
• * Four Aces and the Joker, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 24 1916
• * The Kid, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 27 1916
• * A Lot for a Life, (ss) Every Week Jan 1 1917
• * The Movie Maid and the Martinet, (ss) Every Week Nov 15 1915
• * Oil and Miss Watters, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 8 1917
• * Partners, (ss) Colliers May 5 1917
• * Personality, Etc, (ss) Every Week Oct 11 1915
• * Pro Patria (with Eric Levison), (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1917
• * The Rainy Day, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 11 1915
• * The Runt, (ss) Red Book Magazine Aug 1916
• * The Siren, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 26 1916
• * The Squeeze Play, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jun 27 1915
• * Strictly Confidential, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 13 1916
• * The Thirty Thousand Dollar Beauty, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 9 1916
• * Two Fists and a Heart, (ss) Every Week Jan 24 1916
• * The Understudy, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 30 1915

COLBY, ELEANOR

• * We Gregory Girls, (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1916

COLCORD, LINCOLN (Ross) (1883-1947)

• * A Life and a Ship, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1915
• * Rescue at Sea, (ss) The American Magazine May 1915

COLLAMORE, EDNA A.

• * Those Twin Easter Hats, (ss) The Delineator Apr 1917

COLLARD, ARTHUR

• * The Court of Last Appeal, (ss) Colliers Jun 24 1916

COLLIER, TARLETON

• * The Big Laugh, (ss) Masses Jun 1916
• * Innocence, (ss) New York Evening Sun Nov 13 1916

COLLINS, DOROTHY

• * An Honest Mind, (ss) The Pagan Mar 1917

COLTER, ALICE M.

• * “Even Unto Bethlehem”, (ss) The Delineator Dec 1915

COLTON, ARTHUR (Willis) (1868-?)

• * The Strike on Jamaica Road, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916

COLTON, JOHN (1889-1946)

• * On the Yellow Sea, (ss) Every Week Nov 26 1917

COLUER, TARLETON

• * The Mob, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Aug 21 1915
• * Non-Comhatants, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jan 23 1915
• * The Patriot, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Apr 10 1915

COLUM, PADRAIC (1881-1972)

• * The Giant and His Servants, (sl) New York Tribune Nov 28, Dec 5, Dec 12, Dec 19, Dec 26 1915, Jan 2, Jan 9, Jan 16, Jan 23, Jan 30 1916
• * An Interior, (ss) International Aug 1916
• * A Woman of the West, (ss) Chicago Sunday Tribune Jul 25 1915

COMER, CORNELIA ATWOOD (Pratt)

• * Seth Miles and the Sacred Fire, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1914
• * The Wealth of Timmy Zimmerman, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jun 1914

COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON (1878-1932)

• * The Black Frock Coat, (ss) Every Week Jun 12 1916
• * Chautonville, (ss) Masses Aug 1915
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 21 1916
• * Fleming the Twice-Born, (ss) Every Week Sep 20 1915
• * Lempke, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 3 1917
• * Lit Up, (ss) Every Week Jul 30 1917
• * The Pale Torrent, (ss) Touchstone Jun 1917
• * The Plain Woman, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 24 1917
• * A Respectable House, (ss) Touchstone Aug 1917
• * The Shielding Wing, (ss) Hearst’s Magazine Apr 1917
• * The Woman He Loved, (ss) Touchstone Nov 1917

COMSTOCK, SARAH

• * The Sheep-Woman, (ss) The Century Sep 1914

CONDON, FRANK (1882-1940)

• * Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 17 1917
• * Hence These Tears, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 1916
• * Lemon Blossoms, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 14 1916
• * Ne Coco Domo, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 7 1917
• * Nothing But Some Bones, (ss) Colliers Oct 20 1917
• * This Way Out, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 1917
• * Water on the Side, (ss) Colliers Apr 28 1917

CONNELY, WILLARD

• * It Can’t Be Done Without a Blue Book, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1915
• * Tony Gets Fired, (ss) McClure’s May 1915
• * Tony Goes Gunning for a Job, (ss) McClure’s Jun 1915
• * Tony Haunts the Butterfinger Building, (ss) McClure’s Jul 1915

CONNOLLY, CHRISTOPHER P.

• * The Man from Nevada, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 6 1916