10 Story Book, April 1922

This issue of 10 Story Book magazine (April 1922) contains ten short stories of varying lengths. The featured story, "The Gay Life" by Laurel Elizabeth Small, concerns a nineteen-year-old woman named Letty Appleworth who abandons her small town of Hicksville and her promised engagement to Roy to pursue a glamorous life in New York, inspired by tales from Facile D'Orlette, a returned native of the village. Upon arriving in Manhattan, Letty discovers that the sophisticated urban life she anticipated—where beautiful girls attract wealthy admirers—differs sharply from reality. She finds Facile living in a shabby furnished-room house rather than the elegant surroundings she had described. The other nine stories include "The Telephone Girl's Revenge" by M. Mount, "A Life Membership" by Franklin Lee Stevenson, and "Fisherman's Luck" by Leon W. Dean, among others, spanning 1,000–7,000 words in length as the magazine solicited.