O. Henry memorial award prize stories of 1945 / selected and edited by Herschel Brickell ; assisted by Muriel Fuller.

The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw -- Old Bill bent to drink / Ben Hur Lampman -- Flesh and blood / Laurence Critchell -- Bury your own dead / Bessie Breuer -- Long shadow on the lawn / Mary Deasy -- Burial in the desert / Edward Fenton -- Understand what I mean? / Bill Gerry -- War front: Louisiana / Ethel Edison Gordon -- The people on the roller coaster / Elizabeth Hardwick -- The new kid / Murray Heyert -- Monday at six / Catherine Hubbell -- The sand castle / Mary Lavin -- The thousand-yard stare / Hansford Martin -- A piece of bread / Frances Gray Patton -- Call a solemn assembly / Ruth Portugal -- The trouble / J.F. Powers -- The conqueror / Allen Seager -- Subway system / Katharine Shattuck -- The hour of knowing / Louise Reinhardt Smith -- Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West -- Come away home / Michael Wilson.