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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:5135 Kensington: August, 1903 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Wife of Nashville (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
- Short Story:An Afternoon (Elizabeth Warner)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An interval like this (Robert Gorham Davis)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Arrival on a Holiday (Wilson Wright)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beyond (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Bread and Games (John D. Weaver)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Come Dance With Me in Ireland (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Crime Passionnel (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Cruelties (Edwina Stanton Babcock)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:De Vilmarte's Luck (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Don't Scrub Off These Names (John McNulty)
- Short Story:Down in the Reeds by the River (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Down On Their Knees (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Episode in a Machine Age (Cambray Brown)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Exiles From the Creuse (Mary Mian)
- Short Story:Extra Men (Harrison Rhodes)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Good Wednesday (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Gunner's Passage (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horse and Horse (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In a Military Manner (Samuel Elkin)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Innocence (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Lion (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manicure (Margaret Leech)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Midwestern Primitive (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night Club (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pigeons en casserole (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Poor Monsieur Panalitus (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Prelude (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Prohibition (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Redbone (Ada Jack Carver)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Ripped Off (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Road to the Isles (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Royal Beatings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Run, Run, Run, Run (A. J. Liebling)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Shadow of a Girl (E. B. Ashton)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare (Astrid Meighan)
- Short Story:Shoes (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Smoke (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Solitaire (Fleta Campbell Springer)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
- Short Story:Speck's Idea (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:That Woman (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The cane in the corridor (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Centenarian (Will E. Ingersoll)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
