Drilldown: Stories
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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 Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Country Passion (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Country Passion (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- 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 Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale From the Grave (Ira V. Morris, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Tale From the Grave (Ira V. Morris, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Tooth for Paul Revere (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:A Tooth for Paul Revere (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Air Mail (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Short Story:Air Mail (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Allog, Allog (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Allog, Allog (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:American Nocturne (Robert Whitehand)
- Short Story:American Nocturne (Robert Whitehand)
- Short Story:An Argument in 1934 (Delmore Schwartz)
- Short Story:An Argument in 1934 (Delmore Schwartz)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Asphodel (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Asphodel (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At the Sign of the Three Daughters (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:At the Sign of the Three Daughters (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:At The Swamp (Janet Lewis)
- Short Story:At The Swamp (Janet Lewis)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Biceps (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Biceps (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Big Blonde (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Big Blonde (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Black Wolf (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Black Wolf (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Blind Jozef Pronek (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:Blind Jozef Pronek (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Boundary Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Boundary Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Bright Winter (Anna Keesey)
- Short Story:Bright Winter (Anna Keesey)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Can't Cross Jordan by Myself (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Can't Cross Jordan by Myself (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Castle of Snow (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Castle of Snow (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Catafalque (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Catafalque (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Champlin (Morgan Burke)
- Short Story:Champlin (Morgan Burke)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)


