| Title | Publication | Collected in |
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| "And Lots of Solid Color" | American Prefaces (November 1939) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Darkening Moon" | Harper’s Bazaar (January 1944) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "The Lippia Lawn" | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1944) |
| "A Reunion" | Partisan Review (Fall 1944) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Home Front" | Partisan Review (Spring 1945) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "Between the Porch and the Altar" | Harper’s Magazine (June 1945) |
"The Captain’s Gift"
a.k.a.
"The Present" | The Sewanee Review (April 1946) | Bad Characters |
| "The Interior Castle" | Partisan Review (Nov-Dec 1946) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "The Hope Chest" | Harper's Magazine (January 1947) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "A Slight Maneuver" | Mademoiselle (February 1947) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "Children Are Bored on Sunday" | The New Yorker
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