The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories

Plot

The smilers --Myra meets his family --Two for a cent --Dice, brassknuckles & guitar --Diamond Dick and the first law of woman --The third casket --The pusher-in-the-face --One of my oldest friends --THe unspeakable egg --John Jackson's arcady --Not in the guidebook --Presumption --The adolescent marriage --Your way and mine --The love boat --The bowl --At your age --Indecision --Flight and pursuit --On your own --Between three and four --A change of class --Six of one --A freeze-out --Diagnosis --The rubber check --On schedule --More than just a house --I got shoes --The family bus --In the darkest hour --No flowers --New types --Her last case --Lo, the poor peacock! --The intimate strangers --Zone of accident --Fate in her hands --Image on the heart --Too cute for words --Inside the house --Three acts of music --"Trouble" --An author's mother --The end of hate --In the holidays --The guest in room nineteen --Discard [Director's special] --On an ocean wave --The woman from twenty-one.