# Complete Stories (Vonnegut)

Complete Stories (Seven Stories Press) is a 2017 collection of most of Kurt Vonnegut's previously published short stories, and several that were previously unpublished. The collection is introduced with a foreword by Dave Eggers, and is edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and Dan Wakefield.
This collection features 98 short stories:
* all from Bagombo Snuff Box (23), Look at the Birdie (14), and While Mortals Sleep (16)
* 23/25 from Welcome to the Monkey House (except "Where I Live" and "New Dictionary", both of which are non-fiction pieces rather than stories)
* 10/11 from Armageddon in Retrospect (except "Wailing Shall Be in All Streets", a non-fiction essay)
* 6/8 from Sucker's Portfolio (except "The Last Tasmanian" and "Robotville and Mr. Caslow", one of which is an unfinished story fragment, the other a non-fiction piece)
* 1 from Palm Sunday (only "The Big Space Fuck")
* 5 never-before-published stories ("Atrocity Story," "City," "The Drone King," "Requiem for Zeitgeist," and "And on Your Left")

## Contents
### Part 1: War

* All the King's Horses (Collier's Magazine, 10 February 1951; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* D.P. (Ladies Home Journal, August 1953; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Manned Missiles (Cosmopolitan, July 1958; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Thanasphere (Collier's Magazine, 2 September 1950; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Souvenir (Argosy Magazine, December 1952; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* The Cruise of the Jolly Roger (Cape Cod Compass, April 1953; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Der Arme Dolmetscher (The Atlantic Monthly, July 1955; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Bagombo Snuff Box (Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1954; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Great Day (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Guns Before Butter (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Happy Birthday 1951 (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Brighten Up (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* The Unicorn Trap (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Spoils (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Just You and Me, Sammy (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* The Commandant's Desk (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* Armageddon in Retrospect (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
* The Petrified Ants (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Atrocity Story (never-before-published)

### Part 2: Women

* Miss Temptation (The Saturday Evening Post, 21 April 1956; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Little Drops of Water (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Jenny (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* The Epizootic (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Hundred-Dollar Kisses (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Ruth (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Out, Brief Candle (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Mr. Z (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* With His Hand on the Throttle (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Eden by the River (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)
* Lovers Anonymous (Redbook Magazine, October 1963; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)

### Part 3: Science

* Next Door (Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1955; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Report on the Barnhouse Effect (Collier's Magazine, 11 February 1950; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Euphio Question (Collier's Magazine, 12 May 1951; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Unready to Wear (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, April 1953; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* EPICAC (Collier's Magazine, 26 November 1950; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Mnemonics (Collier's Magazine, 28 April 1951; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Confido (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Hall of Mirrors (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* The Nice Little People (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Look at the Birdie (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Between Time and Timbuktu (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)

### Part 4: Romance

* Who Am I This Time? (The Saturday Evening Post, 16 December 1961; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Long Walk to Forever (Ladies Home Journal, August 1960; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* A Night for Love (The Saturday Evening Post, 23 November 1957; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Find Me a Dream (Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1961; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* FUBAR (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Girl Pool (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Rome (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)
* Miss Snow, You're Fired (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)
* Paris, France (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)
* City (never-before-published)

### Part 5: Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune

* More Stately Mansions (Collier's Magazine, 22 December 1951; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Hyannis Port Story (Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son (Ladies Home Journal, July 1962; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Lie (The Saturday Evening Post, 24 February 1962; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Deer in the Works (Esquire Magazine, April 1955; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Any Reasonable Offer (Collier's Magazine, 19 January 1952; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* The Package (Collier's Magazine, 26 July 1952; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Poor Little Rich Town (Collier's Magazine, 25 October 1952; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* A Present for Big Saint Nick (Argosy Magazine, December 1954; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* This Son of Mine (The Saturday Evening Post, 18 August 1956; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp (Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1957; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Shout About It from the Housetops (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Ed Luby's Key Club (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* King and Queen of the Universe (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* $10,000 a Year, Easy (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Money Talks (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* While Mortals Sleep (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Tango (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* The Humbugs (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)

### Part 6: Behavior

* The Foster Portfolio (Collier's Magazine, 8 September 1951; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Custom-made Bride (The Saturday Evening Post, 27 March 1954; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Unpaid Consultant (Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1955; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Sucker's Portfolio (Sucker's Portfolio, 2013)
* The Drone King (never-before-published)
* Hello, Red (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* The Honor of a Newsboy (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog (Collier's Magazine, 14 March 1953; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Man Without No Kiddleys (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* The Powder-Blue Dragon (Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1954; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Runaways (The Saturday Evening Post, 15 April 1961; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* The Good Explainer (Look at the Birdie, 2009)
* Guardian of the Person (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Bomar (While Mortals Sleep, 2011)
* Requiem for Zeitgeist (never-before-published)
* And on Your Left (never-before-published)

### Part 7: The Band Director

* The Kid Nobody Could Handle (The Saturday Evening Post, 24 September 1955; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The No-Talent Kid (The Saturday Evening Post, 25 October 1952; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Ambitious Sophomore (The Saturday Evening Post, May 1954; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* The Boy Who Hated Girls (The Saturday Evening Post, 31 March 1956; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* A Song for Selma (Look at the Birdie, 2009)

### Part 8: Futuristic

* Harrison Bergeron (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Welcome to the Monkey House (Playboy Magazine, January 1968; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Adam (Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1954; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, January 1954; also in a collection Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968)
* The Big Space Fuck (Again, Dangerous Visions, 1972; also collected in Palm Sunday, 1981)
* 2 B R 0 2 B (Worlds of If Magazine, January 1962; also in a collection Bagombo Snuff Box, 1999)
* Unknown Soldier (Armageddon in Retrospect, 2008)
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