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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,251 to #1,500.
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- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Hand That Fed Me (Isaac Rosenfeld)
- Short Story:The Happiest Man on Earth (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:The Haunted Palace (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:The Headless Hawk (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heavy Load (William March)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Hemlock Tree (Vincent Sheean)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hidden Room (Lawrence Williams)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hired Man (Joan Strong)
- Short Story:The Hitch-Hikers (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Hollow Heart (M. F. K. Fisher)
- Short Story:The Home Place (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Honest Wine Merchant (Helena Lefroy Caperton)
- Short Story:The Honey House (Mary King)
- Short Story:The Honey Pot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Horse Like September (Paul Griffith)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Human Fly (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Hunch (A. H. Z. Carr)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Illumination (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Imaginary Jew (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Immortal Woman (Allen Tate)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Impulse (Conrad Aiken)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interior Castle (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto (R. H. Linn)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Ivory Tower (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The jockey (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Joybell (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Kimono (Ira V. Morris)
- Short Story:The King's Daughter (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Knot Hole (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Land of Plenty (Robert Cantwell)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Equation (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:The Last Meeting (William March)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last of the Grizzly Bears (Ray B. West, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Letters (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Lie Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Life of the Mind (Weldon Kees)
- Short Story:The Life of the Sleeping Beauty (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Light of the Morning (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Black Boys (Clara Laidlaw)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Lone Pioneer (William E. Wilson)
- Short Story:The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Lover of Women (Sue Miller)
- Short Story:The Lovers (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Mirror (Adelaide Gerstley)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Man Who Won the War (Robert Buckner)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Men (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Middle Drawer (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Model House (William Hazlett Upson)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourners (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Murder (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Murder on Jefferson Street (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Mustydines Was Ripe (Howell Vines)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Net (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Nightingales Sing (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Norm (Elaine Gottlieb)
- Short Story:The NRACP (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Old Forest (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Old Order (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Only People (Judith Higgins)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Other Side of the Street (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Overcoat (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:The Owl and the Bens (W. O. Mitchell)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Party Next Door (Ernest Brace)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Peach Stone (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The pelican's shadow (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:The Pension (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Pigeon (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Solitude (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Travel (Wendall Wilcox)
- Short Story:The Poet (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Portable Phonograph (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
- Short Story:The Pot of Gold (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Presbyterian Choir Sings (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Promise (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Psychologist (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarrel (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Rat is a Mouse (Hal Ellson)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Dress (Sylvia Shirley)
- Short Story:The Red Hat (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Rented Room (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Reverse Bug (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The S.S. Libertad (Eyre De Lanux)
- Short Story:The Sacred Thing (Paul Ryan)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Sampler (Ira V. Morris)

