The best American short stories, 1945 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

How the devil came down Division Street / Nelson Algren -- The first fish / Warren Beck -- Crime passionnel / Louis Bromfield -- My brother Osong's career in politics / Carlos Bulosan -- Harvest / Mary Deasy -- Burial in the desert / Edward Fenton -- The light of morning / Morton Fineman -- Understand what I mean? / Bill Gerry -- The test / Brendan Gill -- Be heavy / Richard Hagopian -- It never happened / Emily Hahn -- The Czech dog / W.G. Hardy -- Fever flower / Josephine Johnson -- Poor everybody / Robert McLaughlin -- Don't scrub off these names / John McNulty -- The animals' fair / Warren Miller -- Papa, mama, and economics / George Panetta -- On the way to somewhere else / Joseph Stanley Pennell -- Call a solemn assembly / Ruth Portugal -- The owl that kept winking / Theodore Pratt -- The hand that fed me / Isaac Rosenfeld -- A war marriage / Donna Rowell -- The mourners / Gladys Schmitt -- Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw -- The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford -- Alabama sketches / Ruby Pickens Tartt -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren -- First day finish / Jessamyn West -- This is a love story / Leane Zugsmith -- A ship to Tarshish / William Zukerman.