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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- 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:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- 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 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 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 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:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- 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: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 House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- 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 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 Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- 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:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- 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: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:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- 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: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:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- 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:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- 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)
- 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 Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- 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:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- 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 Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- 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: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: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: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: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:Separating (John Updike)
- 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:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- 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)
