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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:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Lonely Coast (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Subway Named Mobius (A. J. Deutsch)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:All Shall Love Me and Despair (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Allog, Allog (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Along the Frontage Road (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Billy Goats (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Blind Jozef Pronek (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Body Language (Diane Schoemperlen)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Bow Down (Murad Kalam)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming of Age in Karhide (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc. (Joanna Scott)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Creature (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Devotion (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Digging (Beth Lordan)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Eating Dirt (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Elvis Has Left the Building (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Eternal Love (Karen E. Bender)
- Short Story:Every Night for a Thousand Years (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Every Tongue Shall Confess (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Fires (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Flush (Judy Budnitz)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:Further Emergencies (Nicole Krauss)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Ghost Girls (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Ghost Knife (Sharon Pomerantz)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Gold (Kim Edwards)
- Short Story:Good for the Soul (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Grandma (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Hammam (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:He's at the Office (Allan Gurganus)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Heaven Lake (Jess Row)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Illumination (Nancy Reisman)
- Short Story:Improving My Average (Kate Wheeler)
- Short Story:In Case We're Separated (Alice Mattison)
- Short Story:In Roseau (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:In the Gloaming (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Influenza (Daniel Menaker)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Islands (A. Hemon)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Johnny Hamburger (Rand Richards Cooper)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kavita Through Glass (Emily Ishem Raboteau)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Leg (Steven Polansky)
- Short Story:Little Frogs in a Ditch (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Little Gods (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Love and Hydrogen (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Man, Woman, Boy (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Maneki Neko (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Memento Mori (Jonathan Nolan)
- Short Story:Mines (Susan Straight)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Momento Mori (Jonathan Nolan)
- Short Story:Moon (Chaim Potok)
- Short Story:Moriya (Dean Paschal)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:Mr. Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson)
- Short Story:Mr. Sweetly Indecent (Bliss Broyard)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My Father on the Verge of Disgrace (John Updike)
- Short Story:Nachman from Los Angeles (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Night Talkers (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:Nobody in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Nobody's Business (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Paper Lantern (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Past My Future (David Huddle)
- Short Story:People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Pipa's Story (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- Short Story:Proper Library (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:Puerto Vallerta (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Queen Wintergreen (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Rationing (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Real Estate, Real Estate (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Red Mocassions (Susan Power)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Same Place (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Sarah (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Sculpture I (Angela Patrinos)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Seven (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:Shamengwa (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:So I Guess You Know What I Told Him (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Some Say the Word (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Son of the Wolfman (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Space (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Spaceships (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:St. Martin (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Surrounded by Sleep (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tea at the House (Meg Wolitzer)
- Short Story:The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Apple Tree (Trevanian)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Behavior of the Hawkweeds (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:The Black Room (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (Poe Ballantine)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bones of the Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Dancing Dwarf (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Depressed Person (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Fireman (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Ghost Pit (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Good Shopkeeper (Samrat Upadhyay)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Red Ant House (Ann Cummins)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Rug (Meg Mullins)
