Truth or consequences / Alice Adams
The egg / Sherwood Anderson
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks
The author / Donald Barthelme
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen
Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle
The guest / Albert Camus
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The swimmer / John Cheever
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conard
Press clippings / Julio Cortazar Barthelme
the author / Julio Cortazar
We love Glenda so much / Julio Cortazar
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle
Killings / Andre Debus
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
That evening star / William Faulkner
Barn burning / William Faulkner
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thank you for the lovely tea / Mavis Gallant
Revenge / Ellen Gilchrist
Traceleen, she's still talking / Ellen Gilchrist
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dream children / Gail Godwin
The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer
The destructors / Graham Greene
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moon of Atevo / Larry Heinemann
The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway
On the road / Langston Hughes
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The real thing / Henry James
Spells / Tama Janowitz
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Moving pictures / Charles Johnson
The sorcerer's apprentice / Charles Johnson
Araby / James Joyce
The dead / James Joyce
A hungry artist / Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
In the Penal colony / Franz Kafka
Patriotic / Janet Kauffman
The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence
Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
The black madonna / Doris Lessing
A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing
To build a fire / Jack London
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield
Brooklyn / Paule Marshall
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville
Patriotism / Yukio Mishima
How I met my husband / Alice Munro
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
By the river / Joyce Carol Oates
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
Guest of the nation / Frank O'Connor
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
A conversation with my father / Grace Paley
The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter
Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
The catbird seat / James Thurber
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
A & P / John Updike
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Everyday use / Alice Walker
To hell with dying / Alice Walker
"Really, doesn't crime pay?" / Alice Walker
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Petrified man / Eudora Welty
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant / W.D. Wetherell
Roman fever / Edith Wharton
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright