I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections, and particularly for suggestions leading to the wider usefulness of this annual volume. In particular, I shall welcome the receipt, from authors, editors, and publishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1920 and September, 1921 inclusive, which have qualities of distinction, and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. Such communications may be addressed to me at _Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, England_. E. J. O. CONTENTS[1] PAGE #Introduction.# By the Editor xiii #The Other Woman.# By Sherwood Anderson 3 (From _The Little Review_) #Gargoyle.# By Edwina Stanton Babcock 12 (From _Harper's Magazine_) #Ghitza.# By Konrad Bercovici 36 (From _The Dial_) #The Life of Five Points.# By Edna Clare Bryner 49 (From _The Dial_) #The Signal Tower.# By Wadsworth Camp 66 (From _The Metropolitan_) #The Parting Genius.# By Helen Coale Crew 83 (From _The Midland_) #Habakkuk.# By Katharine Fullerton Gerould 90 (From _Scribner's Magazine_) #The Judgment of Vulcan.# By Lee Foster Hartman 116 (From _Harper's Magazine_) #The Stick-in-the-Muds.# By Rupert Hughes 148 (From _Collier's Weekly_) #His Job.# By Grace Sartwell Mason 169 (From _Scribner's Magazine_) #The Rending.# By James Oppenheim 187 (From _The Dial_) #The Dummy-Chucker.# By Arthur Somers Roche 198 (From _The Cosmopolitan_) #Butterflies.# By Rose Sidney 214 (From _The Pictorial Review_) #The Rotter.# By Fleta Campbell Springer 236 (From _Harper's Magazine_) #Out of Exile.# By Wilbur Daniel Steele 266 (From _The Pictorial Review_) #The Three Telegrams.# By Ethel Storm 293 (From _The Ladies' Home Journal_) #The Roman Bath.# By John T. Wheelwright 312 (From _Scribner's Magazine_) #Amazement.# By Stephen French Whitman 320 (From _Harper's Magazine_) #Sheener.# By Ben Ames Williams 348 (From _Collier's Weekly_) #Turkey Red.# By Frances Gilchrist Wood 359 (From _The Pictorial Review_) #The Yearbook of the American Short Story, October, 1919, To September, 1920# 375 Addresses of American Magazines Publishing Short Stories 377 The Bibliographical Roll of Honor of American Short Stories 379