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‘Uprooted’ (Criterion, 1937); ‘News for the Church’ (New Yorker, 1945); ‘The Sentry’ (Harper’s Bazaar, 1950); ‘The Old Faith’ (More Stories of Frank O’Connor, Knopf, 1954); ‘The Miracle’ (The Common Chord, Macmillan, 1947); ‘Achilles’ Heel’ (New Yorker, 1958); ‘The Shepherds’ (Harper’s Bazaar, 1946); ‘Peasants’ (An Long, 1922); ‘Song without Words’ (Harper’s Bazaar, 1944); ‘Lost Fatherlands’ (New Yorker, 1954); ‘A Mother’s Warning’ (Saturday Evening Post, 1967); ‘The Frying-pan’ (The Common Chord, Macmillan, 1947); ‘The Teacher’s Mass’ (New Yorker, 1955); ‘The Wreath’ (Atlantic Monthly, 1955); ‘An Act of Charity’ (New York, 1967); and ‘The Mass Island’ (New Yorker, 1959).
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