Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Contents

Note: Original publication dates and attributions are in parentheses.

• Half Past Four (1987, The New Yorker)
• The Professor's Houses (1982, The New Yorker)
• 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)
• Sunday in Summer in Seatown (1995, Thirteenth Moon)
• In the Drought (1993, Xanadu II)
• Ether, OR (1995, Asimov's)
• Unlocking the Air (1990, Playboy)
• 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)

Editions

• 1996: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-017260-6