O. Henry memorial award prize stories of 1943 / selected and edited by Herschel Brickell ; assisted by Muriel Fuller.

Livvie is back / Eudora Welty -- The knot hole / Dorothy Canfield -- The fishermen of Patzcuaro / William Fifield -- The little black boys / Clara Laidlaw -- The canals of Mars / Kay Boyle -- Pigeons en casserole / Bessie Breuer -- The enemy / Pearl Buck -- The ascent of Ariel Goodbody / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The unfaithful / Whitfield Cook -- Standby / Sarah Grinnell -- Black boy's good time / Elmer Grossberg -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- The glass pigeon / Josephine Johnson -- Blinker was a good dog / Ben Hur Lampman -- A tree. A rock. A cloud / Carson McCullers -- Knife-like, flower-like, like nothing at all in the world / William Saroyan -- White for the living / Margarita G. Smith -- "She shall have music" / Austin Strong -- Death and my Uncle Felix / Alison Stuart -- The cane in the corridor / James Thurber -- The old she 'gator / Peggy von der Goltz -- Pecos Bill and the willful coyote / William C. White.