"Something Special" is the only published short story by Iris Murdoch.

It first appeared in 1957 in a collection entitled Winter's Tales 3, and after inclusion in anthologies in Japan (1971, 1972), England (1979) and Finland (1990) it was republished separately by Chatto & Windus in 1999.

Yvonne Geary, the 24-year-old daughter of a Dublin shopkeeper, is courted by a young Jewish man, Sam Goldman, who takes her out for the night.

After an unpleasant scene at a rowdy public house Sam decides to take Yvonne into his confidence.

This article about a short story (or stories) published in the 1950s is a stub.