Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
# Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories is a 1996 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. Like Searoad and Orsinian Tales, most of the included stories are neither science fiction nor fantasy. It was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

## Contents

* "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 Science Fiction)
* "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)
