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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- 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 Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- 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:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Firebird (Legarde S. Doughty)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Things To Be Thrown Away (Jonathan Penner)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:Today Will Be a Quiet Day (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Two Scenes (Jane Bowles)
- Short Story:Two Sisters (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Utopia of a Tired Man (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Visit to Her Husband (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:What an Old Woman Will Wear (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:What She Knew (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:What's In A Corner (Philip Horton)
- Short Story:Wissler Remembers (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Your Lover Just Called (John Updike)
