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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Family Affair (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:A Father's Story (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:All My Relations (Christopher McIlroy)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- 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:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Calloway's Climb (Peter L. Sandberg)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- Short Story:Mansion, Magic, and Miracle (Lewis B. Horne)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
