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• 32 • Happy Endings • non-genre • (1983) • short story by Margaret Atwood
• 100 • The Rememberer • (1997) • short story by Aimee Bender
• 103 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 112 • The Circular Ruins • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Las ruinas circulares 1940)
• 116 • August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of There Will Come Soft Rains 1950)
• 161 • Paul's Case • non-genre • (1905) • short story by Willa Cather
• 180 • The Swimmer • (1964) • short story by John Cheever
• 199 • Désirée's Baby • non-genre • (1893) • short story by Kate Chopin
• 203 • The Story of an Hour • (1979) • short story by Kate Chopin (variant of The Dream of an Hour 1894)
• 271 • The Open Boat • non-genre • (1897) • novelette by Stephen Crane
• 294 • Battle Royal • (1955) • short story by Ralph Ellison
• 314 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 334 • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • (1972) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes 1955)
• 340 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 357 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 387 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 404 • A White Heron • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 465 • A Hunger Artist • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Ein Hungerkünstler^?Ein Hungerkuenstler
  1924)
• 471 • The Metamorphosis • [Gregor Samsa • 1] • novella by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Verwandlung 1915)
• 507 • Girl • non-genre • (1986) • short fiction by Jamaica Kincaid
• 525 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 554 • The Necklace • non-genre • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La parure 1884)
• 561 • Bartleby, the Scrivener • non-genre • (1853) • novelette by Herman Melville (variant of Bartleby)
• 623 • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • (1966) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 662 • Good Country People • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• 676 • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• 722 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 727 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 846 • Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 903 • Reading Blind • essay by Margaret Atwood
• 912 • Borges and I • (1967) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Borges y yo 1957)
• 913 • Translating Kafka • essay by Ann Charters
• 917 • Why I Write Short Stories • essay by John Cheever
• 921 • How I Stumbled upon Maupassant • essay by Kate Chopin
• 922 • The Sinking of the Commodore • essay by Stephen Crane
• 926 • A Hunger Artist • short story by Robert Crumb and David Mairowitz [as by R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz]
• 936 • The Influence of Folklore on "Battle Royal" • essay by Ralph Ellison
• 940 • A Feminist Reading of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" • essay by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• 940 •   Review: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman • review by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• 942 • Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" • essay by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wall-Paper" 1913)
• 943 • Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration • essay by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 950 • The Morning of June 28, 1948, and "The Lottery" • essay by Shirley Jackson
• 953 • On "Girl" • essay by Jamaica Kincaid
• 959 • The Writer's Goal • essay by Guy de Maupassant
• 961 • Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" • essay by Herman Melville
• 961 •   Review: Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne • review by Herman Melville
• 967 • Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer • essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 969 • Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film • essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 978 • The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale • essay by Edgar Allan Poe
• 996 • Some Words on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed • essay by David Foster Wallace (variant of Laughing With Kafka 1998)
• 1039 • From Letters, 1954-55 • essay by Flannery O'Connor
• 1041 • Writing Short Stories • essay by Flannery O'Connor
• 1046 • Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable • essay by Flannery O'Connor
• 1049 • A Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" • essay by Wayne C. Booth
• 1052 • On "Good Country People" • essay by Dorothy Tuck McFarland
• 1052 •   Review: Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor • review by Dorothy Tuck McFarland