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Showing below up to 250 results in range #751 to #1,000.
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- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Dead Brother Comes to America (Alexander Godin)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My Friend Flicka (Mary O' Hara)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:My Public (Margaret Shedd)
- Short Story:My Russian Cap (Leon Z. Surmelian)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Neither Here Nor There (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night and the Lost Armies (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Night Watch (Thomas Heggen)
- Short Story:No Final Word (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Not With Our Fathers (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Notes of a Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:Off the Highway (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Night for Several Samurai (Joseph Whitehill)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pastor Dowe At Tacate (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pigeons en casserole (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Poisoner in Motley (Louis Brennan)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Polonaise (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Pontius Pilate (John Hagge)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Poor Monsieur Panalitus (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Prelude (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Prince of Darkness (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Pro Arte (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Put Yourself in My Shoes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Remarks: None (William Wister Haines)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Requa I (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Rest Cure (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Resurrection of a Life (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Return by Faith (Francis L. Broderick)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Rich Men (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Ripped Off (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Road to the Isles (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Robot (Guy Davenport)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Roof Sitter (Frances Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Royal Beatings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Run, Run, Run, Run (A. J. Liebling)
- Short Story:Sacrifice of Isaac (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 (Tom Cole)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Salutation to Spring (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Second Wife (Harry Harrison Kroll)
- Short Story:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Serenade (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Sex Education (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:Shadow of a Girl (E. B. Ashton)
- Short Story:Shadow of Evil (James Aswell)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:She Walks in Beauty (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Shepherd of the Lord (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:Sherrel (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Shock Treatment (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare (Astrid Meighan)
- Short Story:Siege of Love (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Sleet Storm (Louise Lambertson)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Small Miracle (Adele Dolokhov)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Smoke (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:So Tall the Corn (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- 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: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:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- 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: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)

