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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Night's Work (Jaimy Gordon)
- Short Story:A Night's Work (Jaimy Gordon)
- Short Story:A Real Life (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:A Real Life (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Ashes (T. Alan Broughton)
- Short Story:Ashes (T. Alan Broughton)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beverly Home (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Beverly Home (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Cal (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Cal (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- 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:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- 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:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Gold (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Gold (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Gold (Kim Edwards)
- Short Story:Gold (Kim Edwards)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Hammam (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Hammam (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- 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 Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Improving My Average (Kate Wheeler)
- Short Story:Improving My Average (Kate Wheeler)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In the Gloaming (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:In the Gloaming (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:JunHee (Marshall Klimasewiski)
- Short Story:JunHee (Marshall Klimasewiski)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Leg (Steven Polansky)
- Short Story:Leg (Steven Polansky)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)


