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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:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- 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 Shadow Table (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Taste of Dust (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Along the Frontage Road (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Awaiting Orders (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Best Friendster Date Ever (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Billy Goats (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Body Language (Diane Schoemperlen)
- Short Story:Bohemians (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Bright Moon Temple (明月寺) (Mi Ye (叶弥))
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Christmas (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Coming to Terms (Eileen Gunn)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Desolation (Gail Jones)
- Short Story:Diary of an Interesting Year (Helen Simpson)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Do Something (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Docent (R. T. Smith)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dominion (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dress Circle (Miranda Siemienowicz)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Echo (Elizabeth Hand)
- Short Story:Eight Episodes (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Eight Pieces for the Left Hand (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emotional Technologies (Chris Kraus)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Galveston Bay, 1826 (Eddie Chuculate)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Grandma (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Grandmother's Nose (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:I CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Late December (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Gorge (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Washed Up (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kavita Through Glass (Emily Ishem Raboteau)
- Short Story:Kin (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:La Vita Nuova (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Last Contact (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Lonegan's Luck (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Lotophagi (Edward Morris)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Making Good (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mines (Susan Straight)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Pigsny (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mrs. Midnight (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Psychological Impact (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Puppy (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Republica and Grau (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Riding the Doghouse (Randy DeVita)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Self-Reliance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:Shamengwa (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Singing My Sister Down (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Soldier of Fortune (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Space (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Spaceships (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
