Short Stories

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STORIES LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY AUTHOR

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A

• "Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe

• "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor" by Sherman Alexie

• "This is What it Means To Say Phoenix Arizona" by Sherman Alexie

• “A Celebration of Grandfathers” by Rudolfo Anaya

• “Autumn Gardening” by Siu Wai Anderson

• “The Dead Past” by Isaac Asimov

• "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov

• “Robbie” by Isaac Asimov

B

• “The Rockpile” by James Baldwin

• “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” Toni Cade Bambara

• “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story” by Russell Banks

• “An Alpine Divorce” by Robert Barr

• “The School” by Donald Barthelme

• “The Laughing Hippopotamus” by L. Frank Baum

• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce

• “The Olive” by Algernon Blackwood

• “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury

• “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury

• “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury

• “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

• “All That Remains” by Bruce Brooks

C

• "Miraim" by Truman Capote

• “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather

• “Sculptor’s Funeral” by Willa Cather

• “A Small Good Thing” by Raymond Carver

• “Reunion” by John Cheever

• “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov

• “The Kiss” by Anton Chekhov

• “The Lady With the Dog”  by Anton Chekhov

• “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin

• “Regret” by Kate Chopin

• “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

• “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane

D

• “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” by Roald Dahl

• “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl

• “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl

• “Man from the South” by Roald Dahl

• “Skin” by Roald Dahl

• “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl

• “The Chase” by Annie Dillard

E

• “After I Was Thrown Into the River and Before I Drowned” by Dave Eggers

• “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison

• "I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself For Sympathy" by Louise Erdrich

• “Snares”  by Louise Erdrich

F

• “The Bear” by William Faulkner

• "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

• “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “The Ice Palace”  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

G

• “Welding With Children” by Tim Gautreaux

• "City Lovers" by Nadine Gordimer

• "The Destructors" by Graham Greene

H

• “Miggles” by Bret Harte

• “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• "Snapshots of a Wedding" by Bessie Head

• "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

• “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway

• ”The Three-Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway

• “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry

• “The Green Door” by O. Henry

• "The Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O. Henry

• “English as a Second Language” by Lucy Honig

• “Christmas Every Day” by William Dean Howells

• “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst

I

• “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving

• "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving

• Selected Writings of Washington Irving by Washington Irving

J

• “Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson

• "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

• “Keeping Watch” by W.W. Jacobs

• "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs

• “The Old Man of the Sea” by W.W. Jacobs

• “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

• “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett

• “Emergency” by Denis Johnson

• “Araby” by James Joyce

• “A Painful Case” by James Joyce

• "Roy Spivey" by Miranda July

K

• “The Boogeyman” by Stephen King

• “The Crate” by Stephen King

• “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling

• “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal

L

• “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence

• “Pretty Monsters” by Kelly Link

• “In a Far Country” by Jack London

• "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

• “Cool Air” by H.P. Lovecraft

• “The Terrible Old Man” by H.P. Lovecraft

• “The Tomb” by H.P. Lovecraft

M

• "A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield

• “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• “The Cripple” by Guy de Maupassant

• “The Diary of a Madman” by Guy de Maupassant

• “The Duel” by Guy de Maupassant

• “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

• “Pin” by Robert McCammon

• “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville

• “A Slow Boat to China” by Haruki Murakami

N

• “Razor” by Vladimir Nabokov

O

• “Where are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates

• "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor

• “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor

• "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

• “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty

• "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

P

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman

• "The Allegory of the Cave" by Plato

• “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe

• "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Cask of Amontillado”  by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Fall of the House of Usher”  by Edgar Allan Poe

• "Hop Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Masque of the Red Death”  by Edgar Allan Poe

• “A Predicament” by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Purloined Letter”  by Edgar Allan Poe

• "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

Q

R

S

• "The Little Prince" by Anton de Saint Exupéry

• “The Interlopers” by Saki

• “The Laughing Man” by J.D. Salinger

• “Examination Day” by Henry Seslar

• “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton

• "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift

T

• “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan

• “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber

• “The Greatest Man in the World” by James Thurber

• "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber

• “Cannibalism in the Cars” by Mark Twain

• “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

U

• “A&P” by John Updike

• “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth” by John Updike

V

• “The Secret Lives of People in Love” by Simon Van Booy

• “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes

• “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• “Long Walk to Forever” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

W

• “Roselily” by Alice Walker

• “The Quiet Man” by Maurice Walsh

• “Where is the Voice Coming From?” by Eudora Welty

• “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty

• "A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty

• “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde

• "The Revolt of Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

• “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams-Bianco

• "The Night In Question" by Tobias Wolff