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Showing below up to 250 results in range #501 to #750.
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- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Night for Several Samurai (Joseph Whitehill)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Polonaise (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Pontius Pilate (John Hagge)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Put Yourself in My Shoes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Requa I (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Ripped Off (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Robot (Guy Davenport)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Royal Beatings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 (Tom Cole)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Speck's Idea (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Stealing Cars (Theodore Weesner)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Surviving Adverse Seasons (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Terminal Procedure (M. Pabst Battin)
- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:That Thou art Mindful of Him (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Actes and Monuments (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:The Aesculapians (Marvin Mandell)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Analyst (Evan Hunter)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey (Robert T. Sorrells)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Boy Who Was Astrid's Mother (Mae Seidman Briskin)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- 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 Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Concert Party (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Count and the Princess (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
