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Showing below up to 250 results in range #501 to #750.
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- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- 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 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 (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 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 Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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 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 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 Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- 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 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 Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- 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 Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Death of Sun (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson (Marion Montgomery)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dock-Witch (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Lie Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- 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 Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- 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 Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- 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 One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Only People (Judith Higgins)
- 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 Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- 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 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 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 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 Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- 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)
