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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (Kevin Brockmeier)
- 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 Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- Short Story:A Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Taste of Dust (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:A Taste of Dust (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Another Word for Map is Faith (Christopher Rowe)
- Short Story:Another Word for Map is Faith (Christopher Rowe)
- Short Story:Best Friendster Date Ever (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:Best Friendster Date Ever (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- 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:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Cinderella School (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:Cinderella School (Lara Vapnyar)
- 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:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desolation (Gail Jones)
- Short Story:Desolation (Gail Jones)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- 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:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Grandma (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Grandma (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- 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 CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- 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 Late December (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:In the Late December (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:La Vita Nuova (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:La Vita Nuova (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- 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:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- 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:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Self-Reliance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Self-Reliance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- 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:Sweeney among the Straight Razors (Joselle Vanderhooft)
- Short Story:Sweeney among the Straight Razors (Joselle Vanderhooft)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- 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 Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- 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 Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Duchess of Albany (Christine Schutt)
- Short Story:The Duchess of Albany (Christine Schutt)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- 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 Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)


