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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,001 to #1,250.
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- Short Story:Pastoralia (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Penance (Matthew Crain)
- Short Story:People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:People Like That Are the Only People Here (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- 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:Pipa's Story (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- 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:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- 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:Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Post and Beam, Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Pray Without Ceasing (Wendell Berry)
- 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:Proper Library (Carolyn Ferrell)
- 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:Puerto Vallerta (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Put Yourself in My Shoes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Queen Wintergreen (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:Queenie (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Real Estate, Real Estate (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Red Mocassions (Susan Power)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- 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:Revival Road (Louise Erdrich)
- 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:Rose (John Biguenet)
- 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:Rug Weaver (Barbara Klein Moss)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Run, Run, Run, Run (A. J. Liebling)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- 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:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Salutation to Spring (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Same Place (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Sarah (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Save My Child! (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Save the Reaper (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- Short Story:Sculpture I (Angela Patrinos)
- Short Story:Sea Oak (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Search Bay (Alyson Hagy)
- 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:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- 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:Servants of the Map (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Sex Education (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- 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:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Siege of Love (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- 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:Sleep (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Sleep (Stephen Dixon)
- 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 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: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: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: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: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)
