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Clay-shuttered doors

Helen R. Hull

This short story centers on a woman’s long friendship with Thalia Corson and the marriage around her to Winchester Corson, a businessman whose moods and flirtations strain the household. The narrator recalls summers on the Cape and later visits to the Corsons’ Long Island home, where Thalia’s composure and distance conceal much of her life. The story also brings in the couple’s children and the narrator’s reflections on different kinds of love and the uneasy history that resurfaces in New York.

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Howdy!

Murray Leinster

Eyrie is a once-booming mining town that rises and falls with placer and hardrock strikes, then lies nearly deserted and forgotten. In that empty setting, longtime enemies Jake Trotter and Bill Weaver are left as the only residents, each suspecting the other of spying or encroaching on his claims. Their daily encounters turn into a guarded routine of insults, weapons, and mutual distrust.

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The telling of the bees

Helen R. Hull

Helen R. Hull’s short story follows Marcia, a farm woman living in a cabin after the death of her husband Bill. As spring returns, she thinks back on her hard marriage, her attraction to her neighbor Stanley Douglas, and the moment their closeness was abruptly checked after a brief physical encounter. The story centers on rural labor, loneliness, and a troubled triangle shaped by duty, desire, and loss.

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Sonny

Murray Leinster

In Helada, Sonny Holman arrives with a bounty on him and finds a crowd gathered around an untamed horse named Gunpowder. After learning that no rider has stayed on the animal, he volunteers to try, and the story centers on his tense ride as Gunpowder bucks, rolls, and tries to throw or crush him. The passage also shows the wary town watching closely while Sonny handles the horse with stubborn skill and determination.

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Virginia's wild oats

F. E. Baily

Virginia Lauriston, a young woman in an English aristocratic circle, debates with Sir Charles Gillespie over what life is open to her, insisting that she wants a real career rather than an ordinary marriage. Her banter with Charles reveals both her wit and her uneasy position as his ward, while Rupert Frack’s arrival brings in a foreign-office problem tied to an important visit and arrangements at Wynwood. The setting is a wealthy country house world shaped by money, titles, and political connections.

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Clare Abbey, volume 1 (of 2)

Lady Emily Ponsonby

In early Victorian England, Mrs. De Grey speaks with her six-year-old son Ernest about inheritance, wealth, and the duties of those who need not work for their living. Ernest, a spirited child who often draws battle scenes, is puzzled by the idea that he may have no trade, while he also longs to become a soldier. When he asks permission, his mother firmly refuses, showing the tension between his youthful ambitions and her concerns.

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The black cat, vol. I, no. 4, January 1896

Various

This issue of a monthly magazine of original short stories opens with publishing and copyright notices, followed by an advertisement-filled front matter. The fiction text begins in San Francisco at the Bohemian Club, where three men watch a police escort of handcuffed Chinese men accused of opium smuggling. One man then starts telling an adventure set in Jerusalem’s ancient underground caverns, where an explorer and his dragoman guide venture into the tunnels and face danger as the guide refuses to go farther.

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Clare Abbey, volume 2 (of 2)

Lady Emily Ponsonby

Lady Emily Ponsonby’s novel is set in nineteenth-century England and follows social and domestic conversation among people in close acquaintance. In this volume, the new year brings a walk between Camilla and Reginald, during which he questions her attachment to Sophia Vincent, a lively but worldly friend. Their exchange also touches on Ernest De Grey, revealing tensions over judgment, influence, and what kind of companion is fit to trust.

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Thoughts of a fool

Evelyn Gladys

A satirical essay collection from 1905, this book presents a narrator who calls herself foolish while arguing that her supposed folly is a matter of ancestry, public judgment, and changing standards of respectability. It traces a comic family pedigree, contrasts being right in life with being right after death, and reflects on how wisdom is circulated through books, schools, and public institutions. The narrator then turns to her own decision to put her wisdom into book form.

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And life is better

Helen R. Hull

Set in a New York family home during the war years, the novel centers on Ann as she tries to manage the uneasy balance between her husband Peter, her lively children, and her mother, Mrs. Reed, who has come to stay after a long illness. The household is outwardly calm, but old tensions remain between Ann and her mother, especially as Mrs. Reed judges the children and Peter resents her presence. The story focuses on domestic routines, strained affection, and the difficulty of living together across generations.

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Twisted bars

Erle Stanley Gardner

Set in a Western ranch community, the story follows tension between the Circle C and Bar Y outfits after a Bar Y newcomer provokes a street confrontation with Sam Eaton, the feared fighter of Mayama Valley. The fight reveals that the newcomer has boxing skill rather than cowboy brawling, and the onlookers realize the Bar Y men are being trained with new methods. Old Walrus argues against escalating the feud with guns and urges the Circle C men to respond more cautiously.

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The spectacles

Frank Belknap Long

In a far future where humanity is gone and the Earth is covered by water, Willie is one of the museum guardians left to tend a preserved human relic. He sneaks into a hall and takes a pair of spectacles from the glass case, then looks through them from a window over the sea. The lenses seem to reveal visions of human life and longing, but a mother-model robot arrives and orders him to put them back, insisting that their kind was made to obey rather than understand.

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D. P. from tomorrow

Mack Reynolds

In a newspaper city room, Ed Kerry and the others field odd phone calls from strangers asking obscure factual questions, and the staff is usually able to answer them. The routine is disrupted when Ted Ruhling calls about a man claiming to be from another space-time continuum, prompting the editors to treat it as a possible story. The conversation turns to science fiction and the idea of alternative universes while Kitty Kildare also appears with a story for her column.

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Naked holiday

Don Elliott

Al Fieldston comes to the Sunland Health Colony hoping for peace and time to write, but instead finds himself amid tangled sexual relationships and the expectations of the nudist camp. The story opens on his first morning there, when he wakes to the sight of Joanie Baker, a naked resident who greets him casually and leads him toward breakfast. The setup follows his awkward adjustment to camp life, his naked debut, and his efforts to wake his friend Jack before heading out.

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The cosmic cloud

Edmond Hamilton

On Betelgeuse, a member of the Interstellar Patrol listens as the chief explains that interstellar commerce is being threatened by the cosmic cloud near the galaxy's center. Ships that approach the immense region of darkness have been pulled inside and lost, first in hundreds and then in thousands, with no clear sign of what causes the danger. The Patrol has already sent cruisers to investigate, but the source of the force remains unknown.

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