Complete Stories

Complete Stories is a collection of 98 short stories sourced from all of the previous Vonnegut collections. It contains all the stories of Bagombo Snuff Box, Look at the Birdie, and While Mortals Sleep. It also has 23 of the 25 works of Welcome to the Monkey House (excluding two non-fiction pieces), the 10 short stories in Armageddon in Retrospect, the 6 complete short stories from Sucker's Portfolio, “The Big Space Fuck” from Palm Sunday, and five previously unreleased short stories. It was published by Seven Stories Press in 2017 and edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and Dan Wakefield, who organized the material into eight thematic sections and wrote introductory essays for each. It also features an introduction by author Dave Eggers.

Contents

Part 1: War

• "All the King's Horses"
• "D.P."
• "The Manned Missiles"
• "Thanasphere"
• "Souvenir"
• "The Cruise of the Jolly Roger"
• "Der Arme Dolmetscher"
• "Bagombo Snuff Box"
• "Great Day"
• "Guns Before Butter"
• "Happy Birthday 1951"
• "Brighten Up"
• "The Unicorn Trap"
• "Spoils"
• "Just You and Me, Sammy"
• "The Commandant's Desk"
• "Armageddon in Retrospect"
• "The Petrified Ants"
• "Atrocity Story"

Part 2: Women

• "Miss Temptation"
• "Little Drops of Water"
• "Jenny"
• "The Epizootic"
• "Hundred-Dollar Kisses"
• "Ruth"
• "Out, Brief Candle"
• "Mr. Z"
• "With His Hand on the Throttle"
• "Eden by the River"
• "Lovers Anonymous"

Part 3: Science

• "Next Door"
• "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"
• "The Euphio Question"
• "Unready to Wear"
• "EPICAC"
• "Mnemonics"
• "Confido"
• "Hall of Mirrors"
• "The Nice Little People"
• "Look at the Birdie"
• "Between Time and Timbuktu"

Part 4: Romance

• "Who Am I This Time?"
• "Long Walk to Forever"
• "A Night for Love"
• "Find Me a Dream"
• "FUBAR"
• "Girl Pool"
• "Rome"
• "Miss Snow, You're Fired"
• "Paris, France"
• "City"

Part 5: Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune

• "More Stately Mansions"
• "The Hyannis Port Story"
• "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son"
• "The Lie"
• "Deer in the Works"
• "Any Reasonable Offer"
• "The Package"
• "Poor Little Rich Town"
• "A Present for Big Saint Nick"
• "This Son of Mine"
• "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp"
• "Shout About It from the Housetops"
• "Ed Luby's Key Club"
• "King and Queen of the Universe"
• "$10,000 a Year, Easy"
• "Money Talks"
• "While Mortals Sleep"
• "Tango"
• "The Humbugs"

Part 6: Behavior

• "The Foster Portfolio"
• "Custom-made Bride"
• "Unpaid Consultant"
• "Sucker's Portfolio"
• "The Drone King"
• "Hello, Red"
• "The Honor of a Newsboy"
• "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog"
• "The Man Without No Kiddleys"
• "The Powder-Blue Dragon"
• "Runaways"
• "The Good Explainer"
• "Guardian of the Person"
• "Bomar"
• "Requiem for Zeitgeist"
• "And on Your Left"

Part 7: The Band Director

• "The Kid Nobody Could Handle"
• "The No-Talent Kid"
• "Ambitious Sophomore"
• "The Boy Who Hated Girls"
• "A Song for Selma"

Part 8: Futuristic

• "Harrison Bergeron"
• "Welcome to the Monkey House"
• "Adam"
• "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
• "The Big Space Fuck"
• "2BR02B"
• "Unknown Soldier"