The Best American short stories, 1953 : and The Yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

A mother's tale / James Agee -- A mountain summer / James Ballard -- The town mouse / Stephen Becker -- At Mrs. Farrelly's / Joseph Carroll -- The life of the sleeping beauty / R. V. Cassill -- The need / Robert M. Coates -- Morning sun / Mary Deasy -- Crispin's way / Harris Downey -- Struttin' with some barbecue / Osborn Duke -- Faq' / George P. Elliott -- A death in the family / Wingate Froscher -- Athens, Greece, 1942 / Vahan Krikorian Gregory -- A spot in history / James B. Hall -- The buffalo wallow / Charles Tenney Jackson (Jack Tennison) -- Fly away home / Roberts Jackson -- Dog days / Madison P. Jones, Jr. -- Beachhead in Bohemia / Willard Marsh -- The hill people / Elizabeth Marshall -- The whipping / Felix Noland -- The picnic / Constance Pendergast -- Change of plan / Ken Purdy -- Our vegetable love / Clay Putman -- Workout on the river / Roger Shattuck -- Oreste / Henry Shultz -- The fugue of the fig tree / Stanley Sultan -- Still, still so / Mark Van Doren -- A week of roses / Donald Wesely -- The forest of the night / Christine Weston -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- The conqueror / Simon Wincelberg.