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Showing below up to 250 results in range #251 to #500.
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- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Pair a Spurs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Paper Lantern (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Past My Future (David Huddle)
- Short Story:Pastoralia (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Penance (Matthew Crain)
- Short Story:People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:People Like That Are the Only People Here (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Pipa's Story (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- Short Story:Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Post and Beam, Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Pray Without Ceasing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Proper Library (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Puerto Vallerta (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Queen Wintergreen (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:Queenie (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Real Estate, Real Estate (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Red Mocassions (Susan Power)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Revival Road (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Rug Weaver (Barbara Klein Moss)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Same Place (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Sarah (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Save My Child! (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Save the Reaper (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sculpture I (Angela Patrinos)
- Short Story:Sea Oak (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Search Bay (Alyson Hagy)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Servants of the Map (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Sleep (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Sleep (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:So I Guess You Know What I Told Him (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Some Say the Word (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Son of the Wolfman (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Soon (Pam Durban)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:St. Martin (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Story of Your Life (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- 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:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tea at the House (Meg Wolitzer)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Terrific Mother (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Angel Esmeralda (Don DeLillo)
- Short Story:The Anointed (Kathleen Hill)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Apple Tree (Trevanian)
- Short Story:The Artist (Edward Falco)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Barber's Unhappiness (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Bear Came Over the Mountain (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Days (Michael Byers)
- Short Story:The Behavior of the Hawkweeds (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:The Best Girlfriend You Never Had (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Black Room (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (Poe Ballantine)
- 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 Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Bridegroom, The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Chasm (John Keeble)
- Short Story:The Children Stay (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Concert Party (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Dancing Dwarf (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Depressed Person (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Fare to the Moon (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Final Inning (Thomas Glave)
- Short Story:The Fireman (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Gilgul of Park Avenue (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Good Shopkeeper (Samrat Upadhyay)
- Short Story:The Governors of Wyoming (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Important Houses (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Incredible Appearing Man (Deborah Galyan)
- 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 Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- 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 Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- 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 of Women (Sue Miller)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Mail Lady (David Gates)
- Short Story:The Man in the Black Suit (Stephen King)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Mine from Nicaragua (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mud Below (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Rest of Her Life (Steve Yarbrough)
- Short Story:The Reverse Bug (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Secrets of Bats, The Secrets of Bats (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silver Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- 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 Thing Around Them, The Thing Around Them (Marilyn Krysl)
- Short Story:The Third and Final Continent (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- 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 Voyage Out (John Rolfe Gardiner)
- Short Story:The Watch (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Way People Run (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:The Way We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:Theories of Rain (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Things Left Undone (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:Think of England (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)

