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) ·
Joan Silber (10) ·
Peter Taylor (10) ·
Bernard Malamud (8) ·
Donald Barthelme (8) ·
Isaac Asimov (8) ·
Mavis Gallant (8) ·
Lorrie Moore (7) ·
Raymond Carver (7) ·
Rick Bass (7) ·
Tobias Wolff (7)
Publication:
The New Yorker (244) ·
Esquire (52) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (48) ·
Harper's Magazine (43) ·
Break It Down: Stories (34) ·
The Kenyon Review (33) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (32) ·
Paris Review (31) ·
Ploughshares (31) ·
The Southern Review (25) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (23) ·
Hudson Review (22) ·
Prairie Schooner (17) ·
The Massachusetts Review (17) ·
The Sewanee Review (17) ·
Playboy (16) ·
Story Magazine (16) ·
The Elephant Vanishes (16) ·
The Georgia Review (16) ·
Antaeus (15)
Year:
Words:
Read1Site:
None (160) ·
The New Yorker (149) ·
newyorker.com (76) ·
archive.org (42) ·
Esquire (41) ·
Break It Down: Stories (34) ·
The Kenyon Review (29) ·
The Virginia Quarterly Review (28) ·
The Atlantic Monthly (26) ·
Harper's Magazine (25) ·
The Saturday Evening Post (23) ·
Hudson Review (21) ·
jstor.org (20) ·
Paris Review (17) ·
The Massachusetts Review (17) ·
The Southern Review (17) ·
Playboy (16) ·
harpers.org (15) ·
Prairie Schooner (15) ·
The Sewanee Review (15)
Read1Access:
Read2Site:
Read2Access:
Read3Site:
Read3Access:
Genres:
Historical Fiction (462) ·
Historical (456) ·
Contemporary Fiction (415) ·
Contemporary / Drama (398) ·
Literary Realism (329) ·
Literary (278) ·
Coming-Of-Age (126) ·
Psychological (122) ·
Psychological Fiction (122) ·
Contemporary (102) ·
Romance (74) ·
Science Fiction (61) ·
Drama (56) ·
Literary Fiction (46) ·
Flash Fiction (41) ·
Humor (41) ·
Comedy (39) ·
Speculative Fiction (36) ·
Crime (29) ·
Fantasy (22)
Collections:
Tags:
Family (194) ·
Death (171) ·
Slow Plot (171) ·
Ambiguous Ending (161) ·
Marriage (136) ·
Downbeat Ending (131) ·
Quiet Plot (131) ·
Love (112) ·
Friendship (105) ·
Upbeat Ending (69) ·
Divorce (65) ·
Grief (63) ·
Relationships (63) ·
Loneliness (56) ·
Childhood (55) ·
Religion (54) ·
Historical (52) ·
Sad Ending (51) ·
First Person (43)
Showing below up to 250 results in range #1,001 to #1,250.
S
- Short Story:The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Lover of Women (Sue Miller)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Mail Lady (David Gates)
- Short Story:The Man in the Black Suit (Stephen King)
- 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 Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Mine from Nicaragua (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- 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 (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mud Below (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- 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 Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:The Other (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- 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 Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Rest of Her Life (Steve Yarbrough)
- 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 Reverse Bug (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Secrets of Bats, The Secrets of Bats (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Silver Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Songs of Reba Love Jackson (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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 Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Steinway Quintet (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Thing Around Them, The Thing Around Them (Marilyn Krysl)
- Short Story:The Third and Final Continent (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Tumblers (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Twa Corbies (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Ugliest House in the World (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Uncharted Heart (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Joe Ashby Porter)
- 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 Visitation (Nancy Pelletier Pansing)
- Short Story:The Voyage Out (John Rolfe Gardiner)
- Short Story:The Waiting (James Agee)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Watch (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Watermelon Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Way People Run (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:The Way We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Way We Went (Wallace E. Knight)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Widow, Bereft (James Blake)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Theft (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Theo's Girl (Nancy Willard)
- Short Story:Theories of Rain (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:There (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Things Left Undone (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:Things To Be Thrown Away (Jonathan Penner)
- Short Story:Think Blue, Count Two (Cordwainer Smith)
- Short Story:Think of England (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Three Washington Stories (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- 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 Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Be an Athlete (Eunice Luccock Corfman)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Today Will Be a Quiet Day (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Tom (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Tommy (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tonight at Nine Thirty-six (Alfred Gillespie)
- Short Story:Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Transactions in a Foreign Currency (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Troy Street (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:TV People (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Two Scenes (Jane Bowles)
- Short Story:Two Sisters (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Typical (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Under the Pitons (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Under the Roof (Kate Wheeler)
- Short Story:Under the Rose (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Undertow (Jennifer C. Cornell)
- Short Story:Unified Front (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Unknown Feathers (Dianne Benedict)
- Short Story:Up From Slavery (Charles R. Larson)
- Short Story:Upon the Sweeping Flood (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Utopia of a Tired Man (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:Valaida (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Vandals (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Vaster than Empires and More Slow (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Victoria (Hilding Johnson)
- Short Story:Victrola (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Visit to Her Husband (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:Viva la Tropicana (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:VRM-547 (W. R. Thompson)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Waiting for Jim (Vera Randal)
- Short Story:Waiting for Trains (Richard Currey)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Walking, Walking (Starkey Flythe)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Wash Far Away (John Berryman)
- Short Story:Watch the Animals (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:Watching Girls Play (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Way down Deep in the Jungle (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Way to the Dump (E. S. Goldman)
- Short Story:Wayne in Love (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick)
