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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- 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:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- 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: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:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- 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 Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- 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:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- 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:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- 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:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- 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: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: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 Actes and Monuments (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Analyst (Evan Hunter)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- 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 Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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 Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Boy Who Was Astrid's Mother (Mae Seidman Briskin)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- 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 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 Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- 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 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 Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- 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 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 Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- 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 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 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 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 Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- 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 Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Other (John Updike)
- 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 Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- 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 of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- 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 Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- 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 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 Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Songs of Reba Love Jackson (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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 of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- 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 We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:Theft (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Things To Be Thrown Away (Jonathan Penner)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- 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:Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Transactions in a Foreign Currency (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
