Three Stories and Ten Poems

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Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) was the first short story collection by Ernest Hemingway; it was also his first published work.

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The three stories are:

• "Up in Michigan"
• "Out of Season"
• "My Old Man"

The ten poems are:

• "Mitraigliatrice"
• "Oklahoma"
• "Oily Weather"
• "Roosevelt"
• "Captives"
• "Champs d'Honneur"
• "Riparto d' Assalto"
• "Montparnasse"
• "Along With Youth"
• "Chapter Heading"

In "My Old Man," Hemingway used renowned jockey Tod Sloan as both the puzzled boy trying to identify the source of his father's shame, and the father who cannot divulge it.