• Short Story List •

Adams, Alice	The Last Lovely City Greyhound People
Aiken, Conrad	Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Alexie, Sherman	Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock
Allen, Woody	The Kugelmass Episode
Anderson, Sherwood	Death in the Woods Hands
Baida, Peter	A Nurse’s Story
Baldwin, James	The Rockpile Sonny’s Blues
Bambara, Toni Cade	Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird Gorilla, My Love The Lesson Raymond’s Run
Barrett, Andrea	The English Pupil
Barth, John	Lost in the Funhouse
Barthelme, Donald	The Indian Uprising Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning
Beattie, Anne	Imagined Scenes Janus
Bellow, Saul	Leaving the Yellow House A Silver Dish
Bender, Aimee	The Rememberer
Berriault, Gina	Women in Their Beds
Bierce, Ambrose	The Boarded Window An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bisson, Terry	The Toxic Donut
Bloom, Amy	Silver Water
Bowles, Paul	The Eye
Boyle, Kay	Astronomer’s Wife Black Boy The White Horses of Vienna
Boyle, T. Coraghessan	Stones in My Passway, Hellhounds on My Trail The Underground Gardens
Bradbury, Ray	There Will Come Soft Rains
Brown, Jason	Animal Stories
Butler, Octavia	Bloodchild
Butler, Robert Olen	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Titanic Survivors Found in the Bermuda Triangle
Capote, Truman	A Christmas Memory
Carter, Angela	The Bloody Chamber The Erlking
Carver, Raymond	Cathedral Errand A Small, Good Thing What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Where I’m Calling From
Cather, Willa	The Diamond Mine Neighbor Rosicky Paul’s Case
Cheever, John	The Country Husband The Swimmer
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell	The Goophered Grapevine The Sheriff’s Children
Chopin, Kate	Desiree’s Baby A Point at Issue! The Storm
Cisneros, Sandra	Little Miracles, Kept Promises Woman Hollering Creek
Davies, Peter Ho	Think of England
Davis, Rebecca Harding	Life in the Iron Mills
Diaz, Junot	The Sun, The Moon, the Stars
Doerr, Anthony	The Shell Collector
Dubus, Andre	The Fat Girl
Dybek, Stuart	Hot Ice
Edwards, Kim	The Way It Felt to Be Falling
Eisenberg, Deborah	Someone to Talk To
Ellison, Harlan	A Boy and His Dog I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Jeffty Is Five “Repent Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
Ellison, Ralph	The Invisible Man, or Battle Royal King of the Bingo Game
Erdrich, Louise	Fleur The Red Convertible
Faulkner, William	Barn Burning The Bear A Rose for Emily That Evening Sun
Ferrell, Carolyn	Proper Library
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins	A New England Nun Old Woman Magoun The Revolt of “Mother”
Friedman, Bruce J.	Brazzaville Teen-ager
Gaines, Ernest	The Sky is Gray
Gardner, John	Redemption
Gibson, William	Johnny Mnemonic
Gilchrist, Ellen	Victory Over Japan
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins	Three Thanksgivings The Yellow Wallpaper
Glasgow, Ellen	The Difference
Glaspell, Susan	A Jury of Her Peers
Haslett, Adam	The Good Doctor
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Minister’s Black Veil: A Parable My Kinsman, Major Molineux The Wives of the Dead
Heinlein, Robert	Waldo
Helprin, Mark	Perfection
Hemingway, Ernest	A Clean Well-Lighted Place Hills Like White Elephants In Another Country The Killers The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber The Snows of Kilimanjaro Soldier’s Home
Hempel, Amy	In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried
Henry, O.	The Gift of the Magi Mammon and the Archer
Highsmith, Patricia	A Girl Like Phyl
Houston, Pam	The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
Hughes, Langston	The Blues I’m Playing Slave on the Block
Hurst, James	The Scarlet Ibis
Hurston, Zora Neale	Conscience of the Court The Eatonville Anthology The Gilded Six-Bits Spunk Sweat
Irving, Washington	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle
James, Henry	The Beast in the Jungle The Jolly Corner
Jewett, Sarah Orne	A White Heron
Johnson, Charles	Menagerie: A Child’s Fable
Jones, Thom	The Pugilist At Rest
Julavits, Heidi	Marry the One Who Gets There First
Kingston, Maxine Hong	On Discovery
Lavin, Mary	In the Middle of the Fields
Lee, Don	The Price of Eggs in China
Leffland, Ella	Last Courtesies
LeGuin, Ursula	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
London, Jack	To Build A Fire
Malamud, Bernard	Black is My Favorite Color The First Seven Years The Magic Barrel
Marshall, Paule	To Da-duh, in Memoriam
Mason, Bobbie Ann	Private Lies Residents and Transients Shiloh
McCorkle, Jill	Fish
McCracken, Elizabeth	Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry
McCullers, Carson	Wunderkind
McPherson, James	Elbow Room
Melville, Herman	Bartelby the Scrivener, a Tale of Wall Street
Moore, Lorrie	You’re Ugly, Too
Morrison, Toni	Recitatif
O’Brien, Tim	How To Tell a True War Story The Things They Carried
O’Connor, Flannery	A Circle in the Fire Everything That Rises Must Converge A Good Man is Hard to Find The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Oates, Joyce Carol	Four Summers How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
Ochsner, Gina	The Necessary Grace to Fall
Olsen, Tillie	I Stand Here Ironing
Orringer, Julie	The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones
Ortiz, Simon	The End of Old Horse
Ozick, Cynthia	The Pagan Rabbi Rosa The Shawl
Packer, ZZ	Brownies
Paley, Grace	Anxiety A Conversation With My Father The Long-Distance Runner
Parker, Dorothy	Big Blonde
Phillips, Jayne Ann	Souvenir
Porter, Katherine Anne	Flowering Judas The Grave He Holiday The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Powell, Padgett	Trick or Treat
Proulx, Annie	Brokeback Mountain The Half-Skinned Steer
Rivera, Tomas	The Harvest
Roth, Philip	The Conversion of the Jews Goodbye Columbus
Salinger, J.D.	A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Salter, James	Last Night
Saroyan, William	Resurrection of a Life
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Lullaby The Man to Send Rain Clouds Storyteller Yellow Woman
Silver, Marisa	What I Saw from Where I Stood
Smiley, Jane	Long Distance
Sontag, Susan	The Way We Live Now
Stafford, Jean	In the Zoo
Stein, Gertrude	Melanctha
Steinbeck, John	The Chrysanthemums Flight The Pearl
Stockton, Frank	The Lady, or the Tiger?
Tan, Amy	Rules of the Game Two Kinds
Taylor, Peter	A Spinster’s Tale
Thurber, James	The Catbird Seat The Night the Ghost Got In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Toomer, Jean	Blood-Burning Moon
Twain, Mark	The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Invalid’s Story Jim Baker’s Blue Jay Yarn The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Mysterious Stranger
Tyler, Anne	Average Waves in Unprotected Water
Updike, John	A&P The Slump
Vonnegut, Kurt	Harrison Bergeron
Walbert, Kate	Paris 1991
Walker, Alice	Everyday Use Roselily
Warren, Robert Penn	Blackberry Winter
Welty, Eudora	Moon Lake Why I Live at the P.O. A Worn Path
Wetzel, Marlene Reed	A Map of Tripoli, 1967
Wharton, Edith	Pomegranate Seed Roman Fever
Wideman, John Edgar	The Beginning of Homewood Fever What We Cannot Speak About We Pass Over in Silence
Williams, Joy	The Girls
Wolfe, Thomas	The Far and the Near
Wolff, Tobias	In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Say Yes
Wright, Richard	Big Black Good Man Bright and Morning Star The Man Who Lived Underground The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Yamamoto, Hisaye	The Eskimo Connection
Yates, Richard	The Canal