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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,001 to #1,250.
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- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- 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:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- 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:Tabloid News (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- 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: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 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 Animal's Fair (Warren Miller)
- 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 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 (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 Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bear (William Faulkner)
- 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 Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- 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 Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey (Robert T. Sorrells)
- 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 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 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 cane in the corridor (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Cape (Esther McCoy)
- 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 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's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- 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 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 Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Cracked Looking-Glass (Katherine Anne Porter)
- 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 Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Czech Dog (W. G. Hardy)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- 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 Dear Little Doves (Eleanor Green)
- 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 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)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dock-Witch (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Doorstop (Roy Flannagan)
- Short Story:The Double House (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Downward Path to Wisdom (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Dream of Angelo Zara (Guido D'Agostino)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Enchanted (Laurette MacDuffie Knight)
- Short Story:The End of the Depression (Mary Bolte)
- Short Story:The Enemy (Pearl S. Buck)
- Short Story:The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Facts in the Case (Grant Leenhouts)
- Short Story:The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:The Family Chronicle (Bernhard Johann Tüting)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Farmer's Children (Elizabeth Bishop)
- Short Story:The Fear of Innocence (Leslie A. Fiedler)
- Short Story:The Female of the Fruit Fly (William March)
- Short Story:The Fence (José Garcia Villa)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Firebird (Legarde S. Doughty)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The First Autumn (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Fish (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The First Lover (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Fishermen of Patzcuaro (William Fifield)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flaming Chariot (Guy Gilpatric)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Foreigner (Bill Adams)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:The Forest of the Night (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Fury (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Girl (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl from the River Barge (Walter Schoenstedt)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Glass Wall (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:The Good Days and the Bad (Helen Eustis)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Great Hunter of the Woods (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Greatest Idea in the World (Samson Raphaelson)
- Short Story:The Green Village (Margaret Rhodes Peattie)

