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21 short stories, biographical notes, and The Yearbook of the American Short Story (January 1 to December 31, 1955). In an Early Winter Roger Angell The Snow Owl Morris Brown We're All Guests George R. Clay In a Foreign City Robert M. Coates The Undertow Wesley Ford Davis The Devil on a Hot Afternoon Ward Dorrance The Hobo Harris Downey The Quiet Chimneys William Eastlake Is He Dead? George P. Elliott Free the Canaries from Their Cages! Arthur Granit How Levon Dai Was Surrendered to the Edemuses Marjorie Anaïs Housepian One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts Shirley Jackson The Mexican Girl Jack Kerouac Creole Love Song Nathaniel LaMar The First Flower Augusta Wallace Lyons Twenty Below, at the End of a Lane Ruth Branning Molloy The Artificial Nigger Flannery O'Connor The Contest for Aaron Gold Philip Roth The Machine John Shepley Four Annas Christine Weston Reginald Pomfret Skelton Samuel Yellen