Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby the scrivener: a story of Wall Street / Herman Melville --
The pupil / Henry James --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
Araby / James Joyce --
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Barn burning / William Faulkner --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
A worn path / Eudora Welty --
The country husband / John Cheever --
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer --
Sonny's blue / James Baldwin --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
The balloon / Donald Barthelme --
A & P / John Updike --
Where are you going? Where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.