Drilldown: Stories
From FictionBase
Use the filters below to narrow your results.
Title:
Author:
Lydia Davis (35) ·
Alice Munro (23) ·
John Updike (23) ·
Annie Proulx (22) ·
John Edgar Wideman (21) ·
Joyce Carol Oates (20) ·
Alice Adams (18) ·
Haruki Murakami (16) ·
Jean Stafford (16) ·
Peter Taylor (15) ·
John Cheever (13) ·
Irwin Shaw (12) ·
Bernard Malamud (10) ·
Joan Silber (10) ·
Flannery O' Connor (9) ·
Isaac Asimov (9) ·
Mary Lavin (9) ·
Ray Bradbury (9)
Publication:
The New Yorker (333) ·
Harper's Magazine (90) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (63) ·
Esquire (57) ·
The Kenyon Review (49) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (44) ·
Harper's Bazaar (42) ·
Story Magazine (40) ·
Paris Review (37) ·
Break It Down: Stories (34) ·
Mademoiselle (33) ·
Hudson Review (32) ·
Ploughshares (31) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (31) ·
Atlantic Monthly (29) ·
The Southern Review (27) ·
Prairie Schooner (25) ·
Partisan Review (23) ·
The Sewanee Review (23) ·
Yale Review (21)
Year:
Words:
Read1Site:
The New Yorker (238) ·
None (164) ·
newyorker.com (76) ·
Harper's Magazine (72) ·
Esquire (46) ·
The Kenyon Review (45) ·
archive.org (42) ·
Harper's Bazaar (42) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (41) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (40) ·
Break It Down: Stories (34) ·
Mademoiselle (33) ·
Hudson Review (31) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (31) ·
Atlantic Monthly (29) ·
Story Magazine (24) ·
Paris Review (23) ·
Prairie Schooner (23) ·
Partisan Review (22) ·
The Sewanee Review (21)
Read1Access:
Read2Site:
Read2Access:
Read3Site:
Read3Access:
Genres:
Historical (657) ·
Historical Fiction (655) ·
Contemporary Fiction (497) ·
Contemporary / Drama (475) ·
Literary Realism (466) ·
Literary (422) ·
Psychological Fiction (219) ·
Psychological (218) ·
Coming-Of-Age (175) ·
Contemporary (114) ·
Romance (90) ·
Drama (85) ·
Science Fiction (81) ·
Speculative Fiction (57) ·
Comedy (53) ·
Flash Fiction (52) ·
Literary Fiction (51) ·
Humor (49) ·
Crime (34) ·
Realistic Fiction (32)
Collections:
Tags:
Family (258) ·
Slow Plot (251) ·
Downbeat Ending (248) ·
Death (246) ·
Ambiguous Ending (231) ·
Marriage (175) ·
Quiet Plot (172) ·
Friendship (159) ·
Love (155) ·
Upbeat Ending (106) ·
Loneliness (88) ·
Relationships (85) ·
Grief (83) ·
Childhood (82) ·
Historical (80) ·
Divorce (78) ·
Sad Ending (76) ·
Religion (75) ·
Fast Paced Plot (65) ·
Racism (63)
Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
S
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- 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:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Cal (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- 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:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- 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:Cataract (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- 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:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- 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:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- 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:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Coming of Age in Karhide (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Cosmopolitan (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Covenant (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- 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:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing After Hours (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- 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:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- 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:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- 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:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dog Days (Madison P. Jones, jr.)
- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Don't Get Me Wrong (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:Don't Scrub Off These Names (John McNulty)
- Short Story:Dotson Gerber Resurrected (Hal Bennett)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Down in the Reeds by the River (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Eating Dirt (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Edge of Doom (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Elvis Has Left the Building (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Episode of a House Remembered (John Rogers)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eternal Love (Karen E. Bender)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Evenings at Home (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:Every Night for a Thousand Years (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Exiles From the Creuse (Mary Mian)
- Short Story:Exodus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Father Delacroix (May Davies Martenet)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Fever Flower (Josephine Johnson)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Fires (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Day Finish (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flesh and Blood (Laurence Critchell)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Flush (Judy Budnitz)
- Short Story:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Footnote to American History (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:For a Beautiful Relationship (Wentzle Ruml III)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For Each of Us (Jack Y. Bryan)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Frenchman's Ship (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:From Willow Temple (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:Frost and Fire (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Game Chickens (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghost Girls (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:God's Agents Have Beards (Emmanuel Winters)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
