The loan / Bernard Malamud. The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw. Thief / Robley Wilson. The cop and the anthem / O. Henry. The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe. Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin. Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte. The overcoat / John P. Davis. A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps. Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe. The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer. Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez. After the theatre / Anton Chekhov. Misery / Anton Chekhov. The fly / Katherine Mansfield. Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield. Eveline ; Araby / James Joyce. Hands ; Paper pills / Sherwood Anderson. The Japanesse quince / John Glasworthy. Can-can / Arturo Vivante. A&P / John Updike. The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara. Judas / Frank O'Connor. The first death of her life / Elizabeth Taylor. To hell with dying / Alice Walker. The innocent / Graham Green. Theft / Katherine Anne Porter. Yours / Mary Robinson. The quail / Rolf Yngve. Janus / Anne Battie. Gravity / David Leavitt. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen. Railway accident / Thomas Mann. The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt. A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers. The blue hotel / Stephen Crane. An episode of war / Stephen Crane. A visit of charity / Eudora Welty. The soft touch of grass / Luigi Pirandello. The use of force / William Carlos Williams. Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce. Dissapearing / Monica Wood. The astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle. The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen. Why don't you dance? / Raymond Carver. Neighbors / Raymond Carver. Say yes / Tobias Wolff. The bridge / Pamela Painter. The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerard. A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin. Order of insect / William Gass. Why can't they tell you why? / James Purdy. The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe. The peasent Marey / Fyodor Dostoevsky. Father and I / Par Lagerkvist. A memory / Eudora Welty. The grave / Katherine Anne Porter. Swadding clothes / Yukio Mishima. Rashomon / Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
The grasshopper and the bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata. Theater / Jean Toomer. Stones is my passway ; Hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle. Yellow woman / Leslie Silko. Wedding night / Tommaso Landolfi. Across the bridge / Heinrich Böll. The shawl / Cynthia Ozick. The snake / John Steinbeck. The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad. The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe. The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving. The trout / Sean O'Faolìn. The riddle / Walter de la Mare. The fairy goose / Liam O'Flaherty. The three hermits: an old legend current in the Volga district / Leo Tolstoy. A little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller. On the road / Langston Hughes. The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn. The poet / Herman Hesse. Jr. Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut. The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. le Guin. How the world was saved / Stanslaw Lem. Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthrone. Two in one / Flann O'Brian. The mother / Italo Svevo. A very old man with enormous wings : the tale for children / Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston. The she-wolf / Giovanni Verga. The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The cliff / Charles Baxter. The secret room / Alain Robbie-Grillet. The anatomy of desire / John L'Herueux. The falling girl / Dino Buzzati. The island at noon / Julio Cortazar. The scorpion / Paul Bowles. An old man and his hat / George H. Freitag. Young goodman brown /Nathaniel Hawthrone. The swimmer / John Cheever. A country doctor / Franz Kafka. Bartleby / Herman Melville. The open window / Saki. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain. The blank page / Isak Dinesen. The symbol / Virginia Woolf. The balloon / Donald Barthelme. The lady, or the tiger / Frank Stockton. Happy andings / Margaret Atwood. A conversation with my father / Grace Paley. On hope / Spencer Holst.
Autobiography : a self-recorded fiction / John Barth. The grasshopper and the ant / Jean de la Fontaine. The ant and the grashopper / Somerset Maugham. The pheonix / Tacitus. Metamorphosis (Book XV) / Ovid. The pheonix / Sylvia Townsend Warner. Pygmalion / John Updike. Daniel and Susanna / The Apocrypha. Susanna and the beach / Herbert Gold. The flood / Genesis, The Bible. The brother / Robert Coover. In the moonlight ; Love: three pages from a sportsman's notebook ; Confessing / Guy de Maupassant. Guy de Maupassant ; The sin of Jesus ; My first Goose / Isaac Babel. Homage for Isaac Babel ; Flight ; Wine / Doris Lessing. A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell. An occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce. Funes, the memorious / Jorge Luis Borges. The real thing ; The figure in the carpet / Henry James.