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 / 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 / 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