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''Unlocking the Air and Other Stories'' is a 1996 collection of
short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
by Ursula K. Le Guin. Like ''Searoad'' and '' Orsinian Tales'', most of the included stories are neither science fiction nor fantasy. It was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.


Contents

*"Half Past Four" (1987, ''
The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'') *"The Professor's Houses" (1982, ''
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'') *"Ruby on the 67" *"Limberlost" (1989, ''Michigan Quarterly Review'') *"The Creatures on My Mind" (1990, ''Harper's'') *"Standing Ground" (1992, ''Ms.'') *"The Spoons in the Basement" (1982, ''
The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'') *"Sunday in Summer in Seatown" (1995, ''Thirteenth Moon'') *"In the Drought" (1993, ''Xanadu II'') *"Ether, OR" (1995, ''
Asimov's Science Fiction ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publicatio ...
'') *"Unlocking the Air" (1990, ''
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'') *"A Child Bride" (1987, ''Terry's Universe'', as "Kore 87") *"Climbing to the Moon" (1992, ''American Short Fiction'') *"Daddy's Big Girl" (1987, ''Omni'') *"Findings" (1992, Ox Head Press chapbook) *"Olders" (1995, ''Omni'') *"The Wise Woman" (1995, The Sound of Writing (broadcast)) *"The Poacher" (1992, ''Xanadu'')


References

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External links

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