Roads of Destiny Directory References Discover Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years? What Is the Emoluments Clause? 12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written” 7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers 7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From Poker Hands Ranked Timeline of the 2000s Contents Roads of Destiny short stories by Henry Ask the Chatbot a Question Ask the Chatbot a Question Learn about this topic in these articles:discussed in biography In O. Henry… (1908), The Gentle Grafter (1908), Roads of Destiny (1909), Options (1909), Strictly Business (1910), and Whirligigs (1910). Whirligigs contains perhaps Porter’s funniest story, “The Ransom of Red Chief.”Read More