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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- 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:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- 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:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- 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: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:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- 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:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- 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:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- 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:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Going Home (James S. Kenary)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Is He Dead (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Mansion, Magic, and Miracle (Lewis B. Horne)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Meet Me in the Green Glen (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
