Drilldown: Stories
From FictionBase
Use the filters below to narrow your results.
Title:
Author:
Jean Stafford (14) ·
Irwin Shaw (11) ·
John Cheever (11) ·
Peter Taylor (10) ·
Ray Bradbury (9) ·
George P. Elliot (7) ·
Kay Boyle (7) ·
Wallace Stegner (7) ·
Flannery O' Connor (6) ·
Jessamyn West (6) ·
Elizabeth Enright (5) ·
Harvey Swados (5) ·
Howard Nemerov (5) ·
Isaac Asimov (5) ·
Mary Lavin (5) ·
Nancy Hale (5) ·
William Saroyan (5)
Publication:
The New Yorker (118) ·
Harper's Magazine (54) ·
Harper's Bazaar (42) ·
Mademoiselle (30) ·
The Kenyon Review (28) ·
Story Magazine (24) ·
Atlantic Monthly (21) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (19) ·
Hudson Review (18) ·
Esquire (17) ·
Partisan Review (17) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (16) ·
Accent (15) ·
Yale Review (15) ·
Prairie Schooner (11) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (11) ·
Epoch (10) ·
The Sewanee Review (10) ·
Tomorrow (10)
Read1Site:
The New Yorker (118) ·
Harper's Magazine (54) ·
Harper's Bazaar (42) ·
Mademoiselle (30) ·
The Kenyon Review (28) ·
Story Magazine (24) ·
Atlantic Monthly (21) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (19) ·
Hudson Review (18) ·
Esquire (17) ·
Partisan Review (17) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (16) ·
Accent (15) ·
Yale Review (15) ·
Prairie Schooner (11) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (11) ·
Epoch (10) ·
The Sewanee Review (10) ·
Tomorrow (10)
Genres:
Historical (265) ·
Historical Fiction (260) ·
Literary (183) ·
Literary Realism (177) ·
Psychological Fiction (130) ·
Psychological (129) ·
Contemporary Fiction (114) ·
Contemporary / Drama (108) ·
Coming-Of-Age (66) ·
Drama (40) ·
Speculative Fiction (32) ·
Science Fiction (31) ·
Romance (25) ·
Contemporary (20) ·
Comedy (19) ·
Humor (19) ·
Realistic Fiction (18) ·
Flash Fiction (16) ·
None (15) ·
Satire (13)
Tags:
Downbeat Ending (139) ·
Slow Plot (99) ·
Death (94) ·
Ambiguous Ending (91) ·
Family (91) ·
Friendship (69) ·
Love (55) ·
Quiet Plot (55) ·
Marriage (52) ·
Fast Paced Plot (48) ·
Upbeat Ending (47) ·
Loneliness (41) ·
Historical (39) ·
Racism (36) ·
Childhood (35) ·
Sad Ending (35) ·
Poverty (30) ·
Religion (29) ·
Fast Plot (28) ·
Relationships (28)
Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
S
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Justice Has No Number (Alfredo Segre)
- Short Story:Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart (Elizabeth Eastman)
- Short Story:Like a Winding Sheet (Ann Petry)
- Short Story:Lions, Harts, Leaping Does (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Little Baseball World (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love Affair (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love Is For Lovers (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- 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:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miriam (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morning, a Week Before the Crime (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- 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 Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Friend Flicka (Mary O' Hara)
- 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:Neither Here Nor There (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Night Watch (Thomas Heggen)
- 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:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Pastor Dowe At Tacate (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pigeons en casserole (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Poor Monsieur Panalitus (Kay Boyle)
- 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:Prince of Darkness (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Return by Faith (Francis L. Broderick)
- Short Story:Road to the Isles (Jessamyn West)
- 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:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- 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:Shock Treatment (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare (Astrid Meighan)
- Short Story:Small Miracle (Adele Dolokhov)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- 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:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Tell Him I Waited (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- 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 Woman (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:That's My Johnny-Boy (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:That's the Man! (Mary Brinker Post)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Animal's Fair (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:The Apprentice (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Bear (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- 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 Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Bridge (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcher (Wilma Shore)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- 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 Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Cocoon (John B. L. Goodwin)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Czech Dog (W. G. Hardy)
- 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 Dear Little Doves (Eleanor Green)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- 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 Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- 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 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 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 First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Fish (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- 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 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 Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- 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 Greatest Idea in the World (Samson Raphaelson)
- Short Story:The Green Village (Margaret Rhodes Peattie)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Hand That Fed Me (Isaac Rosenfeld)
- Short Story:The Headless Hawk (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Hidden Room (Lawrence Williams)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hired Man (Joan Strong)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Hollow Heart (M. F. K. Fisher)
- 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 Human Fly (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Illumination (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Imaginary Jew (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interior Castle (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Ivory Tower (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:The jockey (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The King's Daughter (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Knot Hole (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last of the Grizzly Bears (Ray B. West, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Letters (Harvey Swados)
- 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)

