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Showing below up to 250 results in range #751 to #1,000.
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- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- 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 Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- 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 Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- 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 Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- 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 Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- 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 Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Greatest Idea in the World (Samson Raphaelson)
- Short Story:The Green Village (Margaret Rhodes Peattie)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- 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 Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- 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 Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- 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 Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- 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 Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- 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 Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The jockey (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The King's Daughter (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Knot Hole (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- 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 Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- 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 Lie (Russell Banks)
- 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)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Black Boys (Clara Laidlaw)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Lovers (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Mirror (Adelaide Gerstley)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Men (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Middle Drawer (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourners (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Net (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Nightingales Sing (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Norm (Elaine Gottlieb)
- Short Story:The NRACP (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Old Forest (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Only People (Judith Higgins)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Owl and the Bens (W. O. Mitchell)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Peach Stone (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The pelican's shadow (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Pigeon (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Solitude (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Travel (Wendall Wilcox)
- Short Story:The Portable Phonograph (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
- Short Story:The Pot of Gold (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Psychologist (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Dress (Sylvia Shirley)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Rented Room (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The S.S. Libertad (Eyre De Lanux)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Sand Castle (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Scout Master (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Search (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Second Tree from the Corner (E. B. White)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Sense That In The Scene Delights (Benjamin Demott)
- Short Story:The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Siege (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Singing Lesson (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Sons of Martha (Richard McKenna)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Stagecoach (Griffith Beems)

