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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,001 to #1,250.
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- Short Story:Lieutenant Pearson (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Life-pod (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart (Elizabeth Eastman)
- Short Story:Like a Winding Sheet (Ann Petry)
- Short Story:Liking What You See: A Documentary (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Limestone Diner (Trudy Lewis)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Lion (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Lions, Harts, Leaping Does (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Little Baseball World (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:Little Bride (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Little Frogs in a Ditch (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Little Gods (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Little White Girl (Sara Haardt)
- Short Story:Live Life King-Sized, Live Life King-Sized (Hester Kaplan)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Lo! (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Load (Dudley Schnabel)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Lonegan's Luck (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Lotophagi (Edward Morris)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Loup-garou (R. B. Russell)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love Affair (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice (Nam Le)
- Short Story:Love and Hydrogen (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love Is For Lovers (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Love's So Many Things (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Lowland Sea (Suzy McKee Charnas)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Magic Words (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Making Good (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Wife (Katie Chase)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man on a Road (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Man-Eating Cats (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Man, Woman, Boy (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Maneki Neko (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Mansion, Magic, and Miracle (Lewis B. Horne)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:May We Be Forgiven (A. M. Homes)
- Short Story:Maybe the Sun Will Shine (William March)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Meet Me in the Green Glen (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Memento Mori (Jonathan Nolan)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Merry-Go-Sorry (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miami-New York (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Michael Finney and the Little Men (John Richard Humphreys)
- Short Story:Microstories (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Mines (Susan Straight)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miriam (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Mirror Studies (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Miss Cynthie (Rudolph Fisher)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Missionaries (Bradford Tice)
- Short Story:Mist on the Meadow (William March)
- Short Story:Modulation (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Momento Mori (Jonathan Nolan)
- Short Story:Money at Home (Upton Terrell)
- Short Story:Monsieur Le Genius (Paul Eggers)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Moon (Chaim Potok)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Moriya (Dean Paschal)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morning, a Week Before the Crime (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- 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. Nobody at All (Ann Beattie, Harry Mathews)
- Short Story:Mr. Pigsny (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mr. Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson)
- Short Story:Mr. Sweetly Indecent (Bliss Broyard)
- Short Story:Mrs. Covet (Rebecca Miller)
- Short Story:Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter (Chitra Divakaruni)
- Short Story:Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mrs. Midnight (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mudlavia (Elizabeth Stuckey-French)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:Muzungu (Namwali Serpell)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Brother Eli (Joseph Epstein)
- 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 on the Verge of Disgrace (John Updike)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Friend Flicka (Mary O' Hara)
- Short Story:My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer (Brendan Matthews)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Mother's Garden (Katherine Shonk)
- 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:Nachman from Los Angeles (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Natasha (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:Nausea 1979 (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Nawabdin Electrician (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Neither Here Nor There (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:New York Mining Disaster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nicodemus Bluff (Barry Hannah)
- 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 Talkers (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Night Train to Frankfurt (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:Night Watch (Thomas Heggen)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- 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 in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Nobody's Business (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- 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 Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:NowTrends (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- 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:Oh I do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (Christopher Fowler)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Old Boys, Old Girls (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Friends (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Mike Resnick)
- 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 Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- 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:Once in a Lifetime (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Once the Shore (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:One Dog Year (Kevin Moffett)
- 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:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Out of Body (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pa's Darling (Louis Auchincloss)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Painted Ship, Painted Ocean (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Pair a Spurs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
