What is the author's style in American Short Story Masterpieces by ?

The language of the short stories in this collection have the shared aspect of being realistic in nature. As tributes to the return of realism in literature, these stories are based in a narrative nature that use simplistic, although highly-descriptive language. While the words chosen change with the speakers, in that children tend to speak less sophisticated than adults, and older adults tend to speak more gruffly than teenagers, the words are never high-brow, making the text highly readable.