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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:An Arm Upraised (Alan MacDonald)
- Short Story:An Arm Upraised (Alan MacDonald)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Azathoth (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Short Story:Azathoth (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Big Jules (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Big Jules (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Troubadour (David L. Cohn)
- Short Story:Black Troubadour (David L. Cohn)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:First Oboe (James Webber Glover)
- Short Story:First Oboe (James Webber Glover)
- Short Story:Four Worms Turning (Morton Stern)
- Short Story:Four Worms Turning (Morton Stern)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In The Metropolis (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:In The Metropolis (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:In the Park (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:In the Park (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Faithful Wife (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Faithful Wife (Morley Callaghan)
- 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 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 First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Honest Wine Merchant (Helena Lefroy Caperton)
- Short Story:The Honest Wine Merchant (Helena Lefroy Caperton)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto (R. H. Linn)
- Short Story:The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto (R. H. Linn)
- Short Story:The Jew (Edwin Seaver)
- Short Story:The Jew (Edwin Seaver)
- Short Story:The Last Dive (Carlos Drake)
- Short Story:The Last Dive (Carlos Drake)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Lost Novel (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost Novel (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)


