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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Father's Story (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:All My Relations (Christopher McIlroy)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Ashes (T. Alan Broughton)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Cal (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Gold (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:JunHee (Marshall Klimasewiski)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Same Place (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
