«The Mother of a Queen»

«The Mother of a Queen» is a story about a bullfighter who is referred to as a «queen,» and the narrator, who is both the bullfighter’s friend and his manager. The bullfighter is a miser to the point he stops paying upkeep on his mother’s grave, leading to her bones being thrown in the local communal grave. The narrator ending his friendship with the bullfighter because the bullfighter refuses to pay a debt to the narrator.
«One Reader Writes»

«One Reader Writes» is written in the form of a letter to an advice column. The reader writes that her husband had contracted syphilis while stationed in Shanghai, and she asks the columnist whether the «malady» could be cured.