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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Change of Air (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Mountain Summer (James Ballard)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Night For Orion (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Brahmin Beachhead (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Children of Ruth (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Creole Love Song (Nathaniel LaMar)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Dead Center (Judith Merril)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Dog Days (Madison P. Jones, jr.)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Is He Dead (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The End of the Depression (Mary Bolte)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Firebird (Legarde S. Doughty)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Forest of the Night (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last of the Grizzly Bears (Ray B. West, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Letters (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Life of the Sleeping Beauty (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
