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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:5135 Kensington: August, 1903 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- 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 Kind of Sunset (Erling Larsen)
- Short Story:A Little Walk (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Partnership With Death (Vardis Fisher)
- 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 Sick Call (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- 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:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Along A Sandy Road (Ellen Bishop)
- Short Story:American Nocturne (Robert Whitehand)
- Short Story:An Afternoon (Elizabeth Warner)
- Short Story:An Arm Upraised (Alan MacDonald)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:An Unknown Warrior (Susan M. Boogher)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Answer (Ruth Pine Furniss)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arrival on a Holiday (Wilson Wright)
- Short Story:At The Swamp (Janet Lewis)
- 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:Awakening and the Destination (David E. Krantz)
- Short Story:Azathoth (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Be Heavy (Richard Hagopian)
- 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:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Big Jules (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Troubadour (David L. Cohn)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Blind Man's Buff (Libby Benedict)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Caput Mortuum (Edita Morris)
- 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:Come Dance With Me in Ireland (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dawn of Remembered Spring (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Day of Gold and Darkness (Robert Fontaine)
- Short Story:Death of a Country Doctor (Mary Medearis)
- Short Story:Death of an Outcast (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Departure of Hubbard (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Don't Get Me Wrong (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:Dorothy (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Evening (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:Extra! Extra! (Robert E. Sherwood)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fever Flower (Josephine Johnson)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Oboe (James Webber Glover)
- Short Story:Four Worms Turning (Morton Stern)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Frère Jacques (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Getting on in the World (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Handy (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hansel (Andra Diefenthaler)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:How the Devil Came Down Division Street (Nelson Algren)
- 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 See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- 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:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In a Thicket (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In The Metropolis (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:In the Park (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love's So Many Things (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man on a Road (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Maybe the Sun Will Shine (William March)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Dead Brother Comes to America (Alexander Godin)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My Russian Cap (Leon Z. Surmelian)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and the Lost Armies (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:No Final Word (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Rest Cure (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:She Walks in Beauty (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Sherrel (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- 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:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Animal's Fair (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Black Laugh (A.B. Shiffrin)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Blue Kimono (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
