The best American short stories, 1947 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

Return by faith / Francis L. Broderick -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- The headless hawk / Truman Capote -- Day of gold and darkness / Robert Fontaine -- The man in the mirror / Adelaide Gerstley -- The cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Bird song / John Mayo Goss -- The horse like September / Paul Griffith -- Turista / Albert J. Guerard -- The golden stallion / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Up the road a piece / Ruth McCoy Harris -- Night watch / Thomas Heggen -- Under the Ginkgo trees / Edward Harris Heth -- Michael Finney and the little men / John Richard Humphreys -- Down in the reeds by the river / Victoria Lincoln -- Little baseball world / Robert Lowry -- Father Delacroix / May Davies Martenet -- The darkness / Jane Mayhall -- Prince of darkness / J.F. Powers -- The greatest idea in the world / Samson Raphaelson -- What we don't know hurts us / Mark Schorer -- Game chickens / Allan Seager -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The red dress / Sylvia Shirley -- The interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Shock treatment / Irwin Stark -- The women on the wall / Wallace Stegner -- The siege / Niccolo Tucci -- Bread and games / John D. Weaver -- The hidden room / Lawrence Williams.