CONTENTS 1
A White Heron (by Sarah Orne Jewett) 1
A Pair of Silk Stockings(by Kate Chopin) 25
Désirée's Baby (by Kate Chopin) 38
The Revolt of Mother (by Mary Wilkins Freeman) 52
The Other Two(by Edith Wharton) 88
The Sculptor's Funeral(by Willa Cather) 130
Paul's Case(by Willa Cather) 169
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall(by Katherine Anne Porter) 217
A Telephone Call(by Dorothy Parker) 239
Why I Live at the P.O.(by Eudora Welty) 251
I Stand Here Ironing(by Tillie Olsen) 278
A Domestic Dilemma(by Carson McCullers) 296
The Lottery(by Shirley Jackson) 322
Greenleaf(by Flannery O'Connor) 341