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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,251 to #1,500.
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- Short Story:Smoke (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:So I Guess You Know What I Told Him (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:So Tall the Corn (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:So-Long, Oldtimer (Edmund Ware)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Soldier Harmon (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Some Say the Word (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Something Jolly (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Son of the Wolfman (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Soon (Pam Durban)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Speck's Idea (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Spring Story (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:St. Martin (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Stealing Cars (Theodore Weesner)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Story of Your Life (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Strike Up a Stirring Music (Berry Fleming)
- Short Story:Strip-Tease (George Weller)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Suffer Little Children (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Summer Dust (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Suns That Our Hearts Harden (Carlton Brown)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Surviving Adverse Seasons (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:Symphonesque (Arthur Huff Fauset)
- Short Story:Tabloid News (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Take The Stand, Please (Chester T. Crowell)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Tea at the House (Meg Wolitzer)
- Short Story:Tell Him I Waited (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Terminal Procedure (M. Pabst Battin)
- Short Story:Terrific Mother (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Thanks for Nothing (Roaldus Richmond)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:That Fine Place We Had Last Year (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:That Frozen Hour (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:That Greek Dog (MacKinlay Kantor)
- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:That Thou art Mindful of Him (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:That Will Be Fine (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:That Woman (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:That's My Johnny-Boy (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:That's the Man! (Mary Brinker Post)
- Short Story:That's What Happened to Me (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Actes and Monuments (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:The Aesculapians (Marvin Mandell)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Analyst (Evan Hunter)
- Short Story:The Angel Esmeralda (Don DeLillo)
- Short Story:The Animal's Fair (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:The Anointed (Kathleen Hill)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Apple Tree (Trevanian)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Apprentice (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Artist (Edward Falco)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Barber's Unhappiness (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bear (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:The Bear Came Over the Mountain (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Days (Michael Byers)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Fire (I. V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Behavior of the Hawkweeds (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Best Girlfriend You Never Had (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Black and White Game (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Black Laugh (A.B. Shiffrin)
- Short Story:The Black Room (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey (Robert T. Sorrells)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (Poe Ballantine)
- Short Story:The Blue Kimono (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Blue Sash (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Boy Who Was Astrid's Mother (Mae Seidman Briskin)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Bridegroom, The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Bridge (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wheel (Sirak Goryan)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brothers (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcher (Wilma Shore)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Caller (Meyer Liben)
- Short Story:The Camel's Back (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:The cane in the corridor (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Cape (Esther McCoy)
- Short Story:The Cat That Lived At The Ritz (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Cats Which Cried (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- Short Story:The Chasm (John Keeble)
- Short Story:The Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Chicory Neighbors (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:The Children Stay (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Christian Bite (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Cocoon (John B. L. Goodwin)
- Short Story:The Coffin (Clement Wood)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Concert Party (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Count and the Princess (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:The Country Doctor (Ivan Beede)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Cracked Looking-Glass (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Crazy Guy (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Crusader (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Czech Dog (W. G. Hardy)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Dancing Dwarf (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Dark City (Conrad Aiken)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Darkness (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Dawn Swings In (Lance Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Dear Little Doves (Eleanor Green)
- Short Story:The Death of Murdo (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:The Death of Sun (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson (Marion Montgomery)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Depressed Person (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)

