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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:5135 Kensington: August, 1903 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Change of Air (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Distant Episode (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:A Family Affair (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Letter to Mr. Priest (Margaret Cousins)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Loaf of Bread (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Master Time (James Still)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Mountain Summer (James Ballard)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Partnership With Death (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Ship to Tarshish (William Zukerman)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wife of Nashville (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:All Around the Town (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
- Short Story:All Souls' (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Afternoon (Elizabeth Warner)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Argument in 1934 (Delmore Schwartz)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An interval like this (Robert Gorham Davis)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:Arena (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Asphodel (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At Sallygap (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Be Heavy (Richard Hagopian)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful Night For Orion (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beginning of Wisdom (Rachel Field)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Biceps (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Big Jules (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Bird Song (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Boundary Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Brahmin Beachhead (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Bread and Games (John D. Weaver)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Burial in the Dessert (Edward Fenton)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Bury Your Own Dead (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:By His Bootstraps (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Calloway's Climb (Peter L. Sandberg)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Caput Mortuum (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Castle of Snow (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Children of Ruth (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Chip Off the Old Block (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Away, Oh Human Child (Erik Sandberg-Diment)
- Short Story:Come Dance With Me in Ireland (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comes A Day (Speed Lamkin)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Covenant (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Creole Love Song (Nathaniel LaMar)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Crime Passionnel (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Dawn of Remembered Spring (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Day of Gold and Darkness (Robert Fontaine)
- Short Story:Dead Center (Judith Merril)
- Short Story:Death and My Uncle Felix (Alison Stuart)
- Short Story:Death in a Cathedral (Glennyth Woods)
- Short Story:Death of a Country Doctor (Mary Medearis)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Death Under Hawthornes (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Departure of Hubbard (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Dog Days (Madison P. Jones, jr.)
- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
