The speech of Polly Baker / Benjamin Franklin

The devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe

The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut / Samuel L. Clemens

The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte

Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce

The middle years / Henry James

Belles Demoiselles Plantation / George W. Cable

The wonderful tar-baby story and how Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris

A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett

The story of an hour / Kate Chopin

Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Gilman]

Mammon and the archer / O. Henry

Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton

The open boat / Stephen Crane

Paul's case / Willa Cather

Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson

To build a fire / Jack London

Champion / Ring Lardner

The man who saw through Heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele

Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken

Theft / Katherine Anne Porter

The baby in the icebox / James M. Cain

Liquor makes you smart / Anita Loos

The standard of living / Dorothy Parker

The unicorn in the garden / James Thurber

Becky / Jean Toomer

The bridal party / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wash / William Faulkner

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway

The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston

Slave on the block / Langston Hughes

Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell

Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer

Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara

White on black / Tess Slesinger

Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty

The swimmer / John Cheever

I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen

The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw

My father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman

Idiots first / Bernard Malamud

In the zoo / Jean Stafford

The lottery / Shirley Jackson

The valiant woman / J. F. Powers

A subject of childhood / Grace Paley

In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass

Revelation / Flannery O'Connor

Levitation / Cynthia Ozick

The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin

A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin

Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme

The babysitter / Robert Coover

When everyone was pregnant / John Updike

Revenge of the lawn / Richard Brautigan

Victory over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist

Midair / Frank Conroy

What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver

How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates

Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara

Teller's ticket / Robert Flanagan

Bridging / Max Apple

Communist / Richard Ford

Everyday use / Alice Walker

Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin

Herself in love / Marianne Wiggins

Lechery / Jayne Anne Phillips

Biograph / Michael Martone.