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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,001 to #1,250.
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- Short Story:The Steinway Quintet (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:The Storm (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Stupendous Fortune (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The System Was Doomed (Meyer Levin)
- Short Story:The Tabby Cat (Paul Rader)
- Short Story:The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Terror in the Streets (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:The Test (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:The Third Guest (B. Traven)
- Short Story:The Thousand-Yard Stare (Hansford Martin)
- Short Story:The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Frederick Buechner)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman's Life (Dolph Sharp)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Unborn Ghosts (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Unhappy Hunting Grounds (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Joe Ashby Porter)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Livingston Biddle Jr.)
- Short Story:The Valet of the Splendide (Ludwig Bemelmans)
- Short Story:The Valley of the Shadow (T. K. Brown III)
- Short Story:The Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Vault (T. D. Mabry)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:The Veterans Reflect (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Vicar-General and the Wide Night (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Vindication of Dr. Nestor (E. Lucas Myers)
- Short Story:The Visit (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:The Visitation (Nancy Pelletier Pansing)
- Short Story:The Waiting (James Agee)
- Short Story:The Wanton Troopers (Max Steele)
- Short Story:The Warlock (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Way We Went (Wallace E. Knight)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The Wedding: Beacon Hill (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The White Boat (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:The White Hound (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Wide Net (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Widow, Bereft (James Blake)
- Short Story:The Wild Flower (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wishbone (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Was Loved (James Stern)
- Short Story:The Women (Richard Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Women (Richard T. Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Women on the Wall (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The World Outside (Howard Maier)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Their Losses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Their Name Is Macaroni (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Theo's Girl (Nancy Willard)
- Short Story:There (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Think Blue, Count Two (Cordwainer Smith)
- Short Story:Thiotimoline (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:This Healthy Life (Vicki Baum)
- Short Story:This is a Love Story (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Those Are As Brothers (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Three Players of A Summer Game (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Three Washington Stories (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Threnody for Stelios (Peter Gray)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Time's End (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Tip On A Dead Jockey (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:To a Tenor Dying Old (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:To Be an Athlete (Eunice Luccock Corfman)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To the Least. . . (Henry Exall)
- Short Story:To The Wilderness I Wander (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:Tom (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Tonight at Nine Thirty-six (Alfred Gillespie)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Transience (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Triumph of Justice (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Trouble with the Natives (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Troy Street (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Turista (Albert J. Guérard)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:Twenty Below, At The End of a Lane (Ruth Branning Molloy)
- Short Story:Twilight in Southern California (Daniel Fuchs)
- Short Story:Two Scenes (Jane Bowles)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Uncommon Sense (Hal Clement)
- Short Story:Under the Ginkgo Trees (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Under the Rose (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Under the Sky (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Understand What I Mean? (Bill Gerry)
- Short Story:Up From Slavery (Charles R. Larson)
- Short Story:Up the Road a Piece (Ruth McCoy Harris)
- Short Story:Upon the Sweeping Flood (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Utopia of a Tired Man (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:Vacia (Agnes Macdonald)
- Short Story:Vaster than Empires and More Slow (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Vault of the Beast (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:Vega (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Very Sharp for Jagging (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:Visitor from Philadelphia (John Bell Clayton)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Waiting for Jim (Vera Randal)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Wash Far Away (John Berryman)
- Short Story:We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:We’re All Guests (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:Weekend At Grimsby (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Welcome Home (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:What Do You See, Dear Enid? (Grace Flandrau)
- Short Story:What Kind of a Man Cuts His Finger Off (Rolaine Hochstein)
- Short Story:What We Don't Know Hurts Us (Mark Schorer)
- Short Story:What's In A Corner (Philip Horton)
- Short Story:Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? (Gerald Kersh)
- Short Story:Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed (Seymour Epstein)
- Short Story:When It Changed (Joanna Russ)
- Short Story:Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Where Did Yesterday Go? (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Robert Hazel)
- Short Story:Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (Herb Gardner)
- Short Story:Who Lived and Died Believing (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Who Was Jesse's Friend and Protector? (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Why Were You Sent Out Here? (John Hersey)
- Short Story:Wife-Wooing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Winter Night (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- Short Story:Winter: 1978 (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Wissler Remembers (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:With Ché in New Hampshire (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:With Folded Hands (Jack Williamson)
- Short Story:With No Breeze (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Wondermonger (Michael Rothschild)
- Short Story:Wood (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Wood Smoke (Ann Chidester)
- Short Story:Words Words Words (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Workout On The River (Roger Shattuck)
- Short Story:Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One (Jonathan Strong)
- Short Story:Yiddish in America (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Yoneko's Earthquake (Hisaye Yamamoto)
- Short Story:Yore (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:You Could Look It Up (James Thurber)
- Short Story:You Were Right, Joe (J. T. McIntosh)
- Short Story:Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Your Lover Just Called (John Updike)
- Short Story:Your Place is Empty (Anne Tyler)

