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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The End of the Depression (Mary Bolte)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- 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 Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- 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 Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- 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 Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- 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 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 Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- 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 Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- 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 Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- 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 Pot of Gold (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- 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 Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Sense That In The Scene Delights (Benjamin Demott)
- Short Story:The Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Tabby Cat (Paul Rader)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Third Guest (B. Traven)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Frederick Buechner)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- 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 Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- 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 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 Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Wishbone (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Their Losses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:There (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Think Blue, Count Two (Cordwainer Smith)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Three Players of A Summer Game (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- 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 Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To The Wilderness I Wander (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Trouble with the Natives (Arthur C. Clarke)
- 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:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Under the Rose (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Upon the Sweeping Flood (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Vega (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Very Sharp for Jagging (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Waiting for Jim (Vera Randal)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- 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:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- 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:Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Robert Hazel)
- Short Story:Who Was Jesse's Friend and Protector? (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Wife-Wooing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- Short Story:Wood Smoke (Ann Chidester)
- Short Story:Words Words Words (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Workout On The River (Roger Shattuck)
- Short Story:Yoneko's Earthquake (Hisaye Yamamoto)
- Short Story:Yore (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:You Were Right, Joe (J. T. McIntosh)

