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Louisa May Alcott, Contraband
Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
Sherwood Anderson, The Egg
Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies
Mary Hunter Austin, The Basket Maker
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Andrea Barrett, The Littoral Zone
John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
Rick Bass, Antlers *
Ann Beattie, Janus
Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home *
Saul Bellow, Looking for Mr. Green
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover
Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake *
Ray Bradbury, August 2002: Night Meeting
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
John Cheever, The Swimmer *
Anton Chekhov, The Darling
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Samuel L. Clemens, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Grace Stone Coates, Wild Plums
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel
Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man *
E.L. Doctorow, Wakefield
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band *
Fedor Dostoevski, The Grand Inquisitor
Anne Enright, Natalie *
Ralph Ellison, King of the Bingo Game
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
E. M. Forster, The Road from Colonus
Mary Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
Nickolai Gogol, The Overcoat
Nadine Gordimer, A Beneficiary
Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
Bret Harte, Tennessee's Partner
Nathaniel Hawthorne My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Pam Houston, How to Talk to a Hunter
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
Henry James, The Real Thing
Gish Jen, In the American Society
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Ha Jin, Saboteur
James Joyce, Araby
James Joyce, The Dead
Bel Kaufman, Sunday in the Park
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl *
W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Rudyard Kipling, They
William Kittredge, We Are Not in This Together
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies *
D.H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums *
Ursula K. Le Guin, Horse Camp
Doris Lessing, Wine
Jack London, To Build a Fire
Katherine Mansfield, Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Bobbie-Ann Mason, Shiloh *
Guy De Maupassant, The Necklace
Guy De Maupassant, Rust
Maile Meloy, Travis, B.
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Alice Munro, Passion *
H. H. Munro (Saki), The Open Window
H.H. Munro (Saki), Sredni Vashtar
Joyce Carol Oates, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? *
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Katherine Anne Porter, The Grave
Annie Proulx, Them Old Cowboy Songs *
Annette Sanford, Nobody Listens When I Talk
George Saunders, Puppy *
Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim
Bram Stoker, Dracula's Guest *
Amy Tan, Two Kinds *
Shaun Tan, From The Arrival *
James Thurber, The Catbird Seat
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Judy Troy, The Order of Things *
Ivan Turgenev, The Country Doctor
John Updike, A&P *
John Updike, Separating
Alice Walker, Nineteen Fifty-Five *
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Dorothy West, My Baby
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever *
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
Tobias Wolff, Powder
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Patricia Zelver, Love Letters
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