Prize stories of 1948 : the O. Henry awards / selected and edited by Herschel Brickell.

Shut a final door / Truman Capote -- Beyond the glass mountain / Wallace Stegner -- Powerhouse / Ray Bradbury -- Sparrow's last jump / Elliott Grennard -- She did not cry at all / Frank Brookhouser -- The muse and Mr. Parkinson / James B. Gidney -- The petrified woman / Caroline Gordon -- The silent day / Mary Frances Greene --Mr. Henig's wall / Lodwick Hartley -- The other side of the river / Marianne Hauser -- The wind is blind / James Wesley Ingles -- Child of God / Elizabeth Janeway -- The three aspects / Christopher La Farge -- Pico never forgets / Richard Malkin -- The professor and the puli / Robert Morse -- Welcome home / Elizabeth Parsons -- The answer / Katharine Shattuck -- The snow girl / William R. Shelton -- The talking stick / Viginia Sorenson -- The plan / Sidney Sulkin -- The saddle / Courtenay Terrett -- The gun on the table / John Watson -- The ascent / Ray B. West, Jr.