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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- Short Story:Game Chickens (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:God's Agents Have Beards (Emmanuel Winters)
- Short Story:Goin' to Town (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Gold is Not Always (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Gunner's Passage (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Handy (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Harvest (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Jessie Treichler)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:How the Devil Came Down Division Street (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Ill-Winds From the Wide World (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In a Military Manner (Samuel Elkin)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In the Flow of Time (Beatrice Griffith)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the Twilight (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Is He Dead (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Jerry (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- 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 Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- 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:Magic (Wright Morris)
- 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:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- 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:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- 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 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:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- 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 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: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 Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- 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:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Pastor Dowe At Tacate (Paul Bowles)
- 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:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- 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: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:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Requa I (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Return by Faith (Francis L. Broderick)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- 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:Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 (Tom Cole)
- Short Story:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- 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:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- 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:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- 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: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: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:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- 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:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
- 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 Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)

