by [edited by] Ann Charters (1995)
Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood My first goose / Isaac Babel Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Lost in the funhouse / John Barth The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme Janus / Ann Beattie Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski The eye / Paul Bowles Black boy / Kay Boyle Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio The guest / Albert Camus The erl-king / Angela Carter Cathedral / Raymond Carver Errand / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever The darling / Anton Chekhov The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin The story of an hour / Kate Chopin Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Axolotl / Julio Cortázar The open boat / Stephen Crane The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily / William Faulkner That evening sun / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert 1933 / Mavis Gallant A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Life / Bessie Head Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston The lottery / Shirley Jackson The beast in the jungle / Henry James A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson Araby / James Joyce The dead / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Braids / David Leavitt The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro Heat / Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Good country people / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor In the shadow of war / Ben Okri I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The shawl / Cynthia Ozick A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allen Poe Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allen Poe He / Katherine Anne Porter A great day / Frank Sargeson Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer Long distance / Jane Smiley The way we live now / Susan Sontag The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Two kinds / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber Night / Tatyana Tolstaya The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Roselily / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty A worn path / Eudora Welty Roman fever / Edith Wharton The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf Say yes / Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto
Edgar Allan Poe
16 stories: Balloon-Hoax Berenice Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Descent into the Maelstrom Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Fall of the House of Usher Hop-Frog Imp of the Perverse Ligeia Masque of the Red Death Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Pit and the Pendulum Sphinx Tell-tale Heart 10 poems: Annabel Lee Bells City in the Sea Conqueror Worm Eldorado Lenore Raven Spirits of the Dead Tamerlane Ulalume
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Descent into the Maelstrom Fall of the House of Usher Hop-Frog Ligeia Masque of the Red Death Metzengerstein Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum Premature Burial Purloined Letter Sphinx Tell-tale Heart
Harriet Evans
The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day. So opens A Place for Us by Harriet Evans, a book you'll dive into, featuring a family you'll fall in love with ... and never want to leave. The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer's day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can't be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn't you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter's family is finally coming home.
Deborah Reed
A series of tragedies brings Vivvie's young grandchildren into her custody, and her two estranged daughters back under one roof. Jackson, Vivvie's husband, was shot and killed thirty years ago, and the ramifications have splintered the family into their own isolated remembrances and recriminations. This deeply personal, hauntingly melancholy look at the damages families inflict on each other, and the healing that only they can provide.