| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|
| "And Lots of Solid Color" | American Prefaces (November 1939) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Darkening Moon" | Harper’s Bazaar (January 1944) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "The Lippia Lawn" | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1944) |
| "A Reunion" | Partisan Review (Fall 1944) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Home Front" | Partisan Review (Spring 1945) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "Between the Porch and the Altar" | Harper’s Magazine (June 1945) |
"The Captain’s Gift"
a.k.a. "The Present" | The Sewanee Review (April 1946) | Bad Characters |
| "The Interior Castle" | Partisan Review (Nov-Dec 1946) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "The Hope Chest" | Harper's Magazine (January 1947) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "A Slight Maneuver" | Mademoiselle (February 1947) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "Children Are Bored on Sunday" | The New Yorker (February 21, 1948) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "The Bleeding Heart" | Partisan Review (September 1948) |
| "A Summer Day" | The New Yorker (September 11, 1948) |
| "The Cavalier" | The New Yorker (February 12, 1949) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
"A Modest Proposal"
a.k.a. "Pax Vobiscum" | The New Yorker (July 23, 1949) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "Polite Conversation" | The New Yorker (August 20, 1949) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "A Country Love Story" | The New Yorker (May 6, 1950) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "The Maiden" | The New Yorker (July 29, 1950) |
| "Old Flaming Youth" | Harper's Bazaar (December 1950) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
"The Echo and the Nemesis"
a.k.a. "The Nemesis" | The New Yorker (December 16, 1950) | Children Are Bored on Sunday |
| "The Healthiest Girl in Town" | The New Yorker (April 7, 1951) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "The Violet Rock" | The New Yorker (April 26, 1952) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "I Love Someone" | Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1952) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "Life Is No Abyss" | The Sewanee Review (July 1952) |
| "The Connoisseurs" | Harper's Bazaar (October 1952) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
"Cops and Robbers"
a.k.a. "The Shorn Lamb" | The New Yorker (January 24, 1953) | Bad Characters |
| "The Liberation" | The New Yorker (May 30, 1953) | Stories (1956)
Bad Characters |
| "In the Zoo" | The New Yorker (September 19, 1953) |
| "A Winter’s Tale" | New Short Novels (Ballantine, 1954) | Bad Characters |
| "Bad Characters" | The New Yorker (December 4, 1954) | Stories (1956)
Bad Characters |
| "Beatrice Trueblood’s Story" | The New Yorker (February 26, 1955) | Stories (1956) |
| "Maggie Meriwether’s Rich Experience" | The New Yorker (June 25, 1955) |
| "The Warlock" | The New Yorker (December 24, 1955) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The End of a Career" | The New Yorker (January 21, 1956) | Bad Characters |
"Caveat Emptor"
a.k.a. "The Matchmaker" | Mademoiselle (May 1956) |
| "A Reading Problem" | The New Yorker (June 30, 1956) |
| "The Mountain Day" | The New Yorker (August 18, 1956) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "My Blithe, Sad Bird" | The New Yorker (April 6, 1957) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "A Reasonable Facsimile" | The New Yorker (August 3, 1957) | Bad Characters |
| "The Children’s Game" | The Saturday Evening Post (October 4, 1958) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "The Scarlet Letter" | Mademoiselle (July 1959) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies" | The Kenyon Review (Winter 1964) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "The Ordeal of Conrad Pardee" | Ladies' Home Journal (July 1964) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |
| "The Philosophy Lesson" | The New Yorker (November 16, 1968) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford |
| "An Influx of Poets" | The New Yorker (November 6, 1978) | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
(Not present in first edition) |
| "Woden’s Day" | Shenandoah (Autumn 1979) | Collected Stories & Other Writings |