Stories: Dead man's path / Chinua Achebe
Hands / Sherwood Anderson
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The swimmer / John Cheever
The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
The open boat / Stephen Crane
A party down at the square / Ralph Ellison
Barn burning / William Faulkner
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
A company of laughing faces / Nadine Gordimer
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A clean well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The real thing / Henry James
Before the law / Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Odour of chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursuala K. Le Guin
A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing
To build a fire / Jack London
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the scrivener : a story of Wall-Street / Herman Melville
Patriotism / Yukio Mishima
How I met my husband / Alice Munro
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
Roman fever / Edith Wharton
A haunted house / Virginia Woolf.
Essays by short story authors: Modern Africa as the crossroads of culture / Achebe
Words not polot give form to a short story / Anderson
On the Canadian identity / Atwood
Race and the African-American writer / Baldwin
Literature as experience / Borges
Revolution and repression in Algeria / Camus
Commonplace but precise language / Carver
Art as the process of simplification / Cather
Why I write short stories / Cheever
Natural description and "The center of gravity" / Chekhov
My writing method / Chopin
Bilingual style / Cisneros
The condition of art / Conrad
The sinking of the Commodore / Crane
Race and fiction / Ellision
The human heart in conflict with itself / Faulkner
On his own literary aims / Fitzgerald
The labor of style / Flaubert
My beginnings as a writer / Garcia Marquez
Why I wrote "The yellow wallpaper" / Gilman
How the short story differs from the novel / Gordimer
On the public failure of his early stories / Hawthorne
On true sentence / Hemingway
Eatonville when you look at it / Hurston
The public perception of "The lottery" / Jackson
The mirror of a consciousness / James
Deciding to write in Englihs / Jin
Discussing "The metamorphosis" / Kafka
The novel is the bright book of life / Lawrence
On "The ones who walk away from Omelas" / Le Guin
My beginnings as a writer / Lessing
Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" / London
On "The garden-party" / Mansfield
Minimalist fiction / Mason
The realist method / Maupassant
American literature / Melville
Physical courage and death / Mishima
How I write short stories/ Munro
Productivity and the critics / Oates
The element of suspense in "A good man is hard to find" / O'Connor
The tale and its effect / Poe
Writing "Flowering Judas" / Porter
The basis of "The man to send rain clouds" / Silko
The character of Gimpel / Singer
The moral responsibilities of art / Tolstoy
The black woman writer in America / Walker
The plot of the short story / Welty
The subject of short stories / Wharton
Women and fiction / Woolf.
Criticism: Formalist criticism : Light and darkness in "Sonny's blues" / Michael Clark
Biographical criticism : Chekhov's attitude to romantic love / Virginia Llewellyn Smtih
Historical criticism : The Argentine context of Borges's fantastic fiction / Borges
Psychological criticism : The father-figure in "The tell-tale heart" / Daniel Hoffman
Mythological criticism : Myth in Faulkner's "Barn burning" / Edmond Volpe
Sociological criticism : Money and labor in "The rocking-horse winner" / Daniel P. Watkins
Gender criticism : Gender and pathology in "The yellow wallpaper" / Juliann Fleenor
Reader-response criticism : An Eskimo "A rose for Emily" / Stanley Fish
Deconstructionist criticism : The death of the author / Roland Barthes
Cultural studies : What is cultural studies? / Mark Bauerlein.