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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: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:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Curtain of Green (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:A Day in the Country (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:A Distant Harbour (Paul Horgan)
- 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 Life in the Day of a Writer (Tess Slesinger)
- Short Story:A Little Walk (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:A Loaf of Bread (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Master Time (James Still)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Partnership With Death (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Sick Call (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:American Nocturne (Robert Whitehand)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Afternoon (Elizabeth Warner)
- Short Story:An Arrival at Carthage (Scammon Lockwood)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arrival on a Holiday (Wilson Wright)
- Short Story:Asphodel (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Awakening and the Destination (David E. Krantz)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- 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:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Berkshire Comedy (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Beyond (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Black Tobias and the Empire (Heinz Werner)
- Short Story:Blind Man's Buff (Libby Benedict)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Boy in the Summer Sun (Mark Schorer)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Caput Mortuum (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Castle of Snow (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Catafalque (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Dance With Me in Ireland (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Cora Unashamed (Langston Hughes)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Crossroads Woman (Howard McKinley Corning)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dawn of Remembered Spring (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Day of Gold and Darkness (Robert Fontaine)
- Short Story:Dear Mr. Flessheimer (Whitfield Cook)
- Short Story:Death and My Uncle Felix (Alison Stuart)
- 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:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Don't Get Me Wrong (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:Don't Scrub Off These Names (John McNulty)
- Short Story:Dorothy (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- 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:Father and Son (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Fever Flower (Josephine Johnson)
- Short Story:Fifteen From Company K (William March)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Frère Jacques (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Getting on in the World (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Goin' to Town (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Gold is Not Always (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Hamlet's Dagger (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Handy (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hansel (Andra Diefenthaler)
- Short Story:Harvest (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Her Own Sweet Simplicity (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Here We Are (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horizon (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How the Devil Came Down Division Street (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Josephine Herbst)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Ill-Winds From the Wide World (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In the Cage (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Twilight (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jerry (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job's Tears (James Still)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lay Me Low! (Louis Paul)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Little Bride (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Load (Dudley Schnabel)
- Short Story:Love's So Many Things (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Man on a Road (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Maybe the Sun Will Shine (William March)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Mist on the Meadow (William March)
- Short Story:Money at Home (Upton Terrell)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Dead Brother Comes to America (Alexander Godin)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:My Public (Margaret Shedd)
- Short Story:My Russian Cap (Leon Z. Surmelian)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and the Lost Armies (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:No Final Word (Alvah C. Bessie)
- 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:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Poisoner in Motley (Louis Brennan)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Pro Arte (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Rest Cure (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Sacrifice of Isaac (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
