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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:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- 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 Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dotson Gerber Resurrected (Hal Bennett)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- 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:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- 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:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- 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 Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Requa I (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 (Tom Cole)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson (Marion Montgomery)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
