Short Stories

"I stand here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen

"The Empire of Parakeets"

"The Most Dangerous Game"

"The Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets"

"Death by Scrabble"

"Thud" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Beet Cake" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Someone has been Disarranging the Roses" By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl text

"The Necklace" site

"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros http://forevafound.tripod.com/eleven.pdf

"Oranges" by Gary Soto http://nyczjester.xanga.com/594367967/item/

"The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez http://salvoblue.homestead.com/wings.html

"Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier

http://sphstigers.org/ourpages/users/jasher/Bootcamp/Marigolds.pdf

"Priscilla and the Wimps" by Richard Peck