This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 "modern short stories", written by various authors as follows: Cornelia A. P. Comer, Amy Wentworth Stone, Elizabeth Ashe, Dallas Lore Sharp, H. G. Dwight, Mary Lerner, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Henry Seidel Canby, Zephine Humphrey, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler, Madeleine Z. Doty, F. J. Louriet, Ernest Starr, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Sherwood, E. Nesbit, E. V. Lucas, Margaret Lynn, Margaret Prescott Montague, and Arthur Russell Taylor. This audio compilation begins with the stories themselves, each Section followed by the editor's Biographical and Interpretative Notes, and at the end of the collection, the book's lengthy Introduction is included for the benefit of scholars who may be interested in editor Charles Swain Thomas' detailed opinions on what makes a short story compelling and why women excel in this genre.

Latest episodes of the podcast Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by Various

• The Preliminaries
• Buttercup-Night
• Hepaticas
• Possessing Prudence
• The Glory-Box
• The Spirit of the Herd
• In the Pasha's Garden
• Little Selves
• The Failure
• Business is Business
• Nothing
• A Moth of Peace
• In No Strange Land
• Little Brother
• What Road Goeth He?
• The Clearer Sight
• The Garden of Memories
• The Clearest Voice
• The Marble Child
• The One Left
• The Legacy of Richard Hughes
• Of Water and the Spirit
• Mr. Squem
• Introduction