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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:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- 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 Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- 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 Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- 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 Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- 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 Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- 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 Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- 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 Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- 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:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- 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:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- 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:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- 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:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- 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:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- 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:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Children of Ruth (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- 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:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- 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:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Dog Days (Madison P. Jones, jr.)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- 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 a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- 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:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- 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:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- 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 Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- 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 Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- 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 Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- 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:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- 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:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- 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:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- 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:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- 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:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:One Night for Several Samurai (Joseph Whitehill)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- 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:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
