Short Stories A-Z

Don’t have much time? Stories marked ⏱ are very short and can usually be read in less than five minutes.

#,A

• 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The 13-Carat Diamond (Khin Myo Chit)
• The 400-Pound CEO (George Saunders)
• A&P (John Updike)
• An Adulterous Woman (Albert Camus)
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• African Passions (Beatriz Rivera)
• After the Ball / Dance (Leo Tolstoy)
• After Twenty Years (O. Henry) ⏱
• The Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges)
• All About Suicide (Luisa Valenzuela) ⏱
• All at One Point (Italo Calvino)
• All Over the World (Vicente Rivera)
• All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
• All the King’s Horses (Kurt Vonnegut)
• All You Zombies (Robert Heinlein)
• Almost No Memory (Lydia Davis) ⏱
• America and I (Anzia Yezierske)
• The American Embassy (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• Amnnesty (Nadine Gordimer)
• Amnnesty (Octavia E. Butler)
• And of Clay Are We Created (Isabel Allende)
• Annie’s Day (Andy Weir) ⏱
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• Animal Stories (Jason Brown)
• Another Kind of Life (Roderick Finlayson)
• Answer (Fredric Brown) ⏱
• The Answer is No (Naguib Mahfouz) ⏱
• The Ant and the Grasshopper (W. Somerset Maugham)
• Anxiety (Grace Paley) ⏱
• April in Paris (Ursula Le Guin)
• Aquifer (Tim Winton)
• Araby (James Joyce)
• The Argentine Ant (Italo Calvino)
• Armistice (Bernard Malamud)
• The Artist / Painter (Rabindranath Tagore)
• Astronomer’s Wife (Kay Boyle)
• At Dead Dingo (Henry Lawson) ⏱
• At The Jim Bridger (Ron Carlson)
• At War’s End: An Elegy (Rony V. Diaz)
• Amnnesty (Nadine Gordimer)
• The Autopsy / The Dissection (Georg Heym) ⏱
• Average Waves in Unprotected Waters (Ane Tyler)
• Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones (Stephen Leacock) ⏱
• Axolotl (Julio Cortázar)

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B

• The Baby (Donald Barthelme) ⏱
• Babycakes (Neil Gaiman) ⏱
• Babylon Revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• The Bakery Attack (Haruki Murakami)
• The Balek Scales (Heinrich Böll)
• The Balloon (Donald Barthelme)
• Bang-bang You’re Dead (Muriel Spark)
• The Barber’s Trade Union (Mulk Raj Anand)
• Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
• Barney (Will Stanton) ⏱
• Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
• Battle Royal (Ralph Ellison)
• The Bear (William Faulkner)
• Bears Discover Fire (Terry Bisson)
• The Beast in the Jungle (Henry James)
• The Beautiful People (Charles Beaumont)
• The Best Girlfriend You Never Had (Pam Houston)
• The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
• Beware of the Dog (Roald Dahl)
• Bible / A White Bible (Tobias Wolff)
• Big Blonde (Dorothy Parker)
• Big Brother, Little Sister (Witi Ihimaera)
• Bigfoot Stole My Wife (Ron Carlson)
• The Birds (Daphne du Maurier)
• The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Birthmates (Gish Jen)
• Black Boy (Kay Boyle)
• The Black Cat (Egar Allan Poe)
• Blackberry Winter (Robert Penn Warren)
• Blacksoil Country (David Malouf)
• Bliss (Katherine Mansfield)
• Blood-Buring Moon (Jean Toomer)
• Bloodchild (Octavia E. Butler)
• The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
• The Blue Jar (Isak Dinesen) ⏱
• The Blues I’m Playing (Langston Hughes)
• The Boarded Window (Ambrose Bierce)
• The Boogeyman (Stephen King)
• The Book of Sand (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Born of Man and Woman (Richard Matheson) ⏱
• Borrowing a Match (Stephen Leacock) ⏱
• The Bottom-Pincher (Khushwant Singh)
• Boule de Suif / Ball of Fat (Guy de Maupassant)
• A Boy and His Dog (Harlan Ellison)
• Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
• The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane)
• The Bridegroom (Nadine Gordimer)
• Bright and Morning Star (Richard Wright)
• Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx)
• Bullet in the Brain (Tobias Wolff)
• Burning in the Rain (Dambudzo Marechera)
• Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God (Etgar Keret) ⏱
• The Butler (Roald Dahl) ⏱
• Button, Button (Richard Matheson)
• By the Waters of Babylon (Stephen Benét)

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C

• The Californian’s Tale (Mark Twain)
• Camp Cataract (Jane Bowles)
• Can-Can (Arturo Vivante) ⏱
• The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde)
• Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
• Caroline’s Wedding (Edwidge Danticat)
• A Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Cat in the Rain (Ernest Hemingway) ⏱
• The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
• Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog (Mark Twain)
• Cell One (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• The Censors (Luisa Valenzuela) ⏱
• The Centaur (José Saramago)
• The Centipede (Rony V. Diaz)
• The Challenge (Mario Vargas Llosa)
• Charles (Shirley Jackson)
• The Chaser (John Collier) ⏱
• The Chef (Andy Weir) ⏱
• Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)
• Children of the Corn (Stephen King)
• Children of the Sea (Edwidge Danticat)
• A Chip of Glass Ruby (Nadine Gordimer)
• Chivalry (Neil Gaiman)
• Christmas Not But Once a Year (Heinrich Böll)
• A Choice of Butchers (William Trevor)
• The Chosen Vessel (Barbara Baynton)
• Christmas Day in the Morning (Pearl Buck) ⏱
• A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote)
• Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck)
• Christmas Storms and Sunshine (Elizabeth Gaskell)
• A Christmas Story (Walter Dean Myers)
• A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme) ⏱
• City of Specters (Bandi)
• Civil Peace (Chinua Achebe)
• Clean Sweep Ignatious (Jeffrey Archer)
• A Clean Well-Lighted Place (Ernest Hemingway) ⏱
• The Coffee-house of Surat (Leo Tolstoy)
• The Company of Wolves (Angela Carter)
• The Cone (H. G. Wells)
• Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (Haruki Murakami)
• Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets (Jack Finney)
• The Continuity of Parks (Julio Cortázar) ⏱
• A Conversation From the Third Floor (Mahomed El-Bisatie)
• A Conversation With My Father (Grace Paley)
• Counterfeit Bills (Richard Matheson) ⏱
• The Country Husband (John Cheever)
• The Cow of the Barricades (Raja Rao)
• The Cranes (Peter Meinke) ⏱
• Cranes (Hwang Sun-won)
• Crazy Sunday (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• The Crooked Man (Charles Beaumont)
• Crossing the Zbrucz (Isaac Babel) ⏱
• A Cup of Tea (Katherine Mansfield)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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D

• The Daffodil Sky (H. E. Bates)
• Dahong Palay (Arturo B. Rotor)
• Dante and the Lobster (Samuel Beckett)
• The Darling (Anton Chekhov)
• A Day Goes By (Luigi Pirandello)
• The Day the Dancers Came (Bienvenido Santos)
• Day of the Butterfly (Alice Munro)
• A Day’s Wait (Ernest Hemingway)
• The Dead (James Joyce)
• Dead Men’s Path (Chinua Achebe) ⏱
• Dead Stars (Paz Marquez Benitez)
• A Dead Woman’s Secret (Guy de Maupassant) ⏱
• Death by Scrabble (Charlie Fish) ⏱
• Death in the Woods (Sherwood Anderson)
• Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
• Debbie and Julie (Doris Lessing)
• A Defenseless Creature (Anton Chekhov)
• The Demon Lover (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Désirée’s Baby (Kate Chopin)
• The Destructors (Graham Greene)
• The Devil (Guy de Maupassant)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (Stephen Benét)
• The Devil and Tom Walker (Washington Irving)
• The Devoted Son (Anita Desai)
• Dharma (Vikram Chandra)
• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Diamond Dust: A Tragedy (Anita Desai)
• The Diamond Mine (Willa Cather)
• Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)
• Diary of a Madman (Guy de Maupassant)
• Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun)
• The Difference (Ellen Glasgow)
• The Dinner Party (Mona Gardner) ⏱
• The Direction of the Road (Ursula Le Guin)
• The Disappearance (Chitra Divakaruni)
• Disorder and Early Sorrow (Thomas Mann)
• The Disk (Jorge Borges) ⏱
• The Distance of the Moon (Italo Calvino)
• The Distant Past (William Trevor)
• The District Doctor (Ivan Turgenev)
• The Dog of Tithwal (Saadat Hasan Manto)
• Dog Star (Arthur C. Clarke)
• The Doll’s House (Katherine Mansfield)
• Dominoes (Jack Agüeros)
• Don’t Look Now (Daphne du Maurier)
• The Door in the Wall (H. G. Wells)
• Dr Heidegger’s Experiment (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The Drover’s Wife (Henry Lawson)
• The Drowned Giant (J. G. Ballard)
• The Drummer Boy of Shiloh (Ray Bradbury)
• Dry September (William Faulkner)
• The Duchess and the Jeweller (Virginia Woolf)
• Dusk (James Salter)
• Dusky Ruth (A. E. Coppard)

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E

• Earthmen Bearing Gifts (Fredric Brown) ⏱
• The Eatonville Anthology (Zora Neale Hurston)
• The Egg (Sherwood Anderson)
• The Egg (Andy Weir) ⏱
• Eleonora (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
• Emergency (Denis Johnson)
• The Empty House (Algernon Blackwood)
• The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Danilo Kiš)
• The End of Something (Ernest Hemingway) ⏱
• End of the Game (Julio Cortázar)
• The End of the Party (Graham Greene)
• The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
• The Erlking (Angela Carter)
• The Eskimo Connection (Hisaye Yamamoto)
• Eveline (James Joyce)
• Evening Primrose (John Collier)
• Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
• Everyone Cried (Lydia Davis) ⏱
• Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O’Connor)
• Exchanging Glances (Christa Wolf)
• The Extravagant Behavior of the Naked Woman (Josefina Estrada) ⏱
• The Eye (Paul Bowles)
• The Eyes Have It (Philip Dick) ⏱

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F

• A Face in the Dark (Ruskin Bond) ⏱
• The Faith Cure Man (Paul Dunbar)
• The Fall of Edward Barnard (W. Somerset Maugham)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Falling Girl (Dino Buzzatti)
• The Far and the Near (Thomas Wolfe) ⏱
• Farewell to a Ghost (Manoj Das)
• Fat (Raymond Carver)
• The Fat Girl (Andre Dubus)
• Father Against Mother (Machado de Assis)
• Fatso (Etgar Keret) ⏱
• The Fence (Hamsad Rangkuti)
• Fever (John Edgar Wideman)
• The Fiddler (Herman Melville)
• Filboid Studge (Saki) ⏱
• Filial Sentiments of a Parricide (Marcel Proust)
• First Confession (Frank O’Connor)
• The First Law (Asimov) ⏱
• The First Seven Years (Bernard Malamud)
• The First Year of My Life (Muriel Spark)
• Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
• Flight (John Steinbeck)
• The Flight (Kamala Das)
• Flowering Judas (Katherine Porter)
• The Flowers (Alice Walker) ⏱
• Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
• The Fly (Katherine Mansfield)
• The Flying Machine (Ray Bradbury)
• Folie a Deux (William Trevor)
• For Esmé with Love and Squalor (J. D. Salinger)
• Foreign Shores (James Salter)
• Forty-Five a Month (R. K. Narayan)
• Fountains in the Rain (Yukio Mishima)
• Four O’clock (Price Day) ⏱
• Four Summers (Joyce Carol Oates)

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G

• A Game of Cards (Witi Ihimaera)
• Games at Twilight (Anita Desai)
• The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Borges)
• The Garden of Stubborn Cats (Italo Calvino)
• The Garden Party (Katherine Mansfield)
• Geraldo No Last Name (Sandra Cisneros) ⏱
• The Ghost of Michael Jackson (Ngugi Wa Thiong’o)
• The Ghost upon the Rail (John Lang)
• Ghosts (Edwidge Danticat)
• Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
• The Gilded Six-Bits (Zora Neale Hurston)
• Gimpel the Fool (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)
• Girl (Jamaica Kincaid) ⏱
• A Girl Like Phyl (Patricia Highsmith)
• Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
• God Sees the Truth, But Waits (Leo Tolstoy)
• The Gold of Tomás Vargas (Isabel Allende)
• The Golden Honeymoon (Ring Lardner)
• The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind (Ray Bradbury)
• Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies (Salman Rushdie)
• A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O’Connor)
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
• Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth)
• The Goophered Grapevine (Charles W Chesnutt)
• Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov)
• The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Grasshopper & the Bell Cricket (Yasunari Kawabata) ⏱
• The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
• Greasy Lake (T. C. Boyle)
• Great Day (David Malouf)
• Great Day (Frank Sargeson)
• The Green Door (O. Henry)
• The Green Leaves (Grace Ogot)
• Greyhound People (Alice Adams)
• The Guest (Albert Camus)
• Guests of the Nation (Frank O’Connor)
• A Guide to Berlin (Vladimir Nabokov)

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H

• Haircut (Ring Lardner)
• Half a Day (Naguib Mahfouz) ⏱
• The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
• A Handful of Dates (Tayeb Salih)
• Han’s Crime (Shiga Naoya)
• Hands (Sherwood Anderson)
• The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• A Hanging (George Orwell)
• The Happiest I’ve Been (John Updike)
• Happy Endings (Margaret Atwood) ⏱
• Harrison Bergeron (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The Harvest (Tomás Rivera)
• A Haunted House (Virgina Woolf) ⏱
• He (Katherine Porter)
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
• Hearts and Hands (O. Henry) ⏱
• Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Heavy-Set (Ray Bradbury)
• The Hell Screen (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)
• Henne Fire (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• Here We Aren’t, So Quickly (Jonathan Foer)
• Hermann the Irascible (Saki) ⏱
• He-y Come On Ou-t (Shinichi Hoshi) ⏱
• Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) ⏱
• The Hit Man (T. C. Boyle) ⏱
• The Hitchhiking Game (Milan Kundera)
• Holiday (Katherine Porter)
• A Home near the Sea (Kamala Das)
• A Horse and Two Goats (R. K. Narayan)
• The Horse Dealer’s Daughter (D. H. Lawrence)
• A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)
• The Hospice (Robert Aikman)
• The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) ⏱
• The House Opposite (R. K. Narayan)
• House Taken Over (Julio Cortázar)
• How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
• How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy)
• How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned his Breakfast (William Astley)
• How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife (Manuel E. Aguilla)
• How to Tell a True War Story (Tim O’Brien)
• A Hunger Artist (Franz Kafka)
• The Hungry Stones (Rabindranath Tagore)
• Hunted Down (Charles Dickens)

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I

• I am Bigfoot (Ron Carlson) ⏱
• I Could See the Smallest Things (Raymond Carver)
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison)
• I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
• Identities (W. D. Valgardson) ⏱
• Idyll (Guy de Maupassant)
• The Imitation of the Rose (Clarice Lispector)
• Immigration Blues (Bienvenido Santos)
• Immortality (Yiyun Li)
• In a Grove (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)
• In Another Country (Ernest Hemingway)
• In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Died (Amy Hempel)
• In the Family (Maria Elena Llana) ⏱
• In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (Tobias Wolff)
• In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
• In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
• In the Night (Jamaica Kincaid)
• In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
• In the Tunnel (Mavis Gallant)
• In the Withaak’s Shade (Herman Bosman)
• Indian Camp (Ernest Hemingway) ⏱
• The Indian Uprising (Donald Barthelme)
• The Interlopers (Saki)
• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)

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J,K

• Janus (Ann Beattie)
• The Japanese Quince (John Galsworthy)
• Javni (Raja Rao)
• The Jay (Yasunari Kawabata)
• Jeeves Takes Charge (P. G. Wodehouse)
• Jeffty is Five (Harlan Ellison)
• The Jewels / False Gems (Guy de Maupassant)
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Katherine Porter)
• Johnny Mnemonic (William Gibson)
• A Joke (Anton Chekhov)
• The Jolly Corner (Henry James)
• Journey into a Dark Heart (Peter Høeg)
• The Judgment (Franz Kafka)
• A Jury of Her Peers (Susan Glaspell)
• Kabuliwallah (Rabindranath Tagore)
• Kanakapala, Protector of Gold (Raja Rao)
• Kew Gardens (Virginia Woolf)
• Key Item (Isaac Asimov) ⏱
• The Killers (Ernest Hemingway)
• Killings (Andre Dubus)
• The King is Dead, Long Live the King! (Mary Coleridge)
• The King of Jazz (Donald Barthelme) ⏱
• King of the Bingo Game (Ralph Ellison)
• Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
• The Kitemaker (Ruskin Bond) ⏱
• Knock (Fredric Brown)
• Korea (John McGahern)
• The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)

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L

• La Grande Breteche (Honoré de Balzac)
• The Lady With the Dog (Anton Chekhov)
• The Lagoon (Joseph Conrad)
• Lajwanti (Mulk Raj Anand)
• Lajwanti (Rajinder Singh Bedi)
• Lamb to the Slaughter (Roald Dahl)
• Land Deal (Gerald Murnane)
• The Landlady (Roald Dahl)
• Landscape with Flatiron (Haruki Murakami
• The Last Class / Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• Last Day at School (Giovanni Mosca) ⏱
• Last Evenings on Earth (Roberto Bolano)
• The Last Leaf (O. Henry)
• The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
• Last Night (James Salter)
• The Last Night of the World (Ray Bradbury) ⏱
• The Last Question (Isaac Asimov)
• The Last Rung on the Ladder (Stephen King)
• The Last Unicorns (Edward Hoch) ⏱
• The Laugher (Heinrich Böll) ⏱
• The Laughing Man (J. D. Salinger)
• The Law of Life (Jack London)
• The Leap (Louise Erdrich)
• The Learned Adventure of the Dragon’s Head (Dorothy Sayers)
• Leaving the Yellow House (Saul Bellow)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
• Leiningen Versus the Ants (Carl Stephenson)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (Stefan Zweig)
• A Letter to God (Gregorio Lopez Fuentes) ⏱
• The Library of Babel (Jorge Borges)
• Life (Bessie Head)
• The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O’Connor)
• The Lifted Veil (George Eliot)
• Like the Sun (R. K. Narayan) ⏱
• The Loaded Dog (Henry Lawson)
• Long Walk to Forever (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The Long-Distance Runner (Grace Paley)
• Looking for a Rain-God (Bessie Head)
• The Looking Glass (Anton Chekhov)
• Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde)
• The Lost Child (Mulk Raj Anand)
• The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
• Love in the Cornhusks (Aida Rivera-Ford)
• Love Must Not Be Forgotten (Zhang Jie)
• The Love of My Life (T. C. Boyle)
• The Love Potion (Herman Bosman)
• The Lower Garden District Free Gravity Mule Blight (Ellen Gilchrist)
• Luck (Mark Twain)
• The Luck of Roaring Camp (Bret Harte)
• Lullaby (Leslie Marmon Silko)
• The Lumber Room (Saki)

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M

• The Machine Stops (E. M. Forster)
• The Machine That Won the War (Isaac Asimov)
• The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
• The Magic Shop (H. G. Wells)
• The Man in the Black Suit (Stephen King)
• Man From The South (Roald Dahl)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain)
• The Man to Send Rain Clouds (Leslie Marmon Silko)
• The Man Who Lived Underground (Richard Wright)
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man (Richard Wright)
• The Management of Grief (Bharati Mukherjee)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women (Lucia Berlin)
• Marigolds (Eugenia Collier)
• Marjorie Daw (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• The Mark of Vishnu (Khushwant Singh)
• Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Marriage is a Private Affair (Chinua Achebe)
• Mary Postgate (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Mask of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Mateo Falcone (Prosper Mérimée)
• May Day Eve (Nick Joaquin)
• Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
• The Middleman (Bharati Mukherjee)
• A Mild Atack of Locusts (Doris Lessing)
• The Million Pound Bank Note (Mark Twain)
• The Minister’s Black Veil (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• The Minority Report (Philip Dick)
• Minutes of Glory (Ngugi Wa Thiong’o)
• Misery / The Lament (Anton Chekhov)
• Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield)
• The Money Box (W. W. Jacobs)
• The Monkey’s Paw (W. W. Jacobs)
• The Moonlit Road (Ambrose Bierce)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
• The Mouse (Saki) ⏱
• Mr Know All (W. Somerset Maugham)
• Mrs Bathurst (Rudyard Kipling)
• Mrs Plum (Es’kia Mphahlele)
• Mrs Spring Fragrance (Sui Sin Far)
• A Municipal Report (O. Henry)
• Music (Ellen Gilchrist)
• My First Goose (Isaac Babel) ⏱
• My Friend Luke (Fernando Sorrentino) ⏱
• My Jockey (Lucia Berlin) ⏱
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• My Life with the Wave (Octavio Paz)
• My Name (Sandra Cisneros) ⏱
• My Old Man (Ernest Hemingway)
• A Mystery of Heroism (Stephen Crane)
• The Mystery of the Missing Cap (Manoj Das)

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N,O

• Naming the Names (Anne Devlin)
• The (Diamond) Necklace (Guy de Maupassant)
• Neighbor Rosicky (Willa Cather)
• Neighbours (Tim Winton) ⏱
• The New Dress (Virginia Woolf)
• A New England Nun (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• The New Food (Stephen Leacock) ⏱
• The News from Ireland (William Trevor)
• Night (Tatyana Tolstaya)
• Night Driver (Italo Calvino)
• A Night in the Hills (Paz Marquez Benitez)
• The Night the Bed Fell (James Thurber)
• The Night the Ghost Got In (James Thurber)
• Nightfall (Isaac Asimov)
• No Witchcraft for Sale (Doris Lessing)
• Noise Level (Raymond Jones)
• The Nose (Nicolai Gogol)
• Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
• Odour of Chrysanthemums (D. H. Lawrence)
• The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Old Aeson (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
• On the Rainy River (Tim O’Brien)
• Once Upon a Time (Nadine Gordimer)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn)
• One of These Days (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) ⏱
• One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula Le Guin)
• Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
• The Open Boat (Stephen Crane)
• The Open Window (Saki) ⏱
• The Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
• The Other (Jorge Borges)
• Other People (Neil Gaiman) ⏱
• The Other Wife / Woman (Colette) ⏱
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte)
• The Outlaws (Selma Lagerlöf)
• An Outpost of Progress (Joseph Conrad)
• Outside (Etgar Keret) ⏱
• The Outsider (H. P. Lovecraft)
• The Oval Portrait (Edgar Allan Poe) ⏱
• The Overcoat / Cloak (Nikolai Gogol)
• Oysters (Anton Chekhov) ⏱

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P,Q

• The Pagan Rabbi (Cynthia Ozick)
• A Painful Case (James Joyce)
• The Pale Man (Julius Long)
• Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
• Parallel Universes (Etgar Keret) ⏱
• The Pardon of Becky Day (John Fox, Jr.)
• Parker’s Back (Flannery O’Connor)
• Passing Wind (Lydia Davis) ⏱
• A Passion in the Desert (Honore de Balzac)
• Paste (Henry James)
• Patriotism (Yukio Mishima)
• Paul’s Case (Wiila Cather)
• The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
• The Pedestrian (Ray Bradbury) ⏱
• A Perfect Day for Bananafish (J. D. Salinger)
• Philomel Cottage (Agatha Christie)
• The Piece of String (Guy de Maupassant)
• Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
• A Pilgrim Yankee’s Progress (Nick Joaquin)
• A Point at Issue (Kate Chopin)
• Poison (Roald Dahl)
• Pomegranate Seed (Edith Wharton)
• Popular Mechanics (Raymond Carver) ⏱
• The Portrait of a Lady (Khushwant Singh) ⏱
• The Possibility of Evil (Shirley Jackson)
• The Postmaster (Rabindranath Tagore)
• The Postmaster / Stationmaster (Alexander Pushkin)
• Powder (Tobias Wolff) ⏱
• Prey (Richard Matheson)
• The Princess and the Tin Box (James Thurber)
• The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses (Bessie Head)
• A Problem (Anton Chekhov)
• The Prussian Officer (D. H. Lawrence)
• The Purloined Letter (Edar Allan Poe)
• The Queen of Spades (Alexander Pushkin)
• Quiet Town (Jason Gurley)

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R

• Railroad Standard Time (Frank Chin)
• Rain Frogs (Shiga Naoya)
• Rape Fantasies (Margaret Atwood)
• Rappaccini’s Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Recitatif (Toni Morrision)
• The Red Bow (George Saunders)
• The Red Convertible (Louise Erdrich)
• The Red-Headed League (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Redemption (John Gardner)
• Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
• The Replacement (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
• Residents and Transients (Bobbie Ann Mason)
• A Respectable Woman (Kate Chopin) ⏱
• Resurrection of a Life (William Saroyan)
• A Retreived Reformation (O. Henry)
• The Return (Roberto Bolano)
• The Return (Fernando Sorrentino)
• Reunion (John Cheever) ⏱
• Reunion (Arthur C. Clarke) ⏱
• The Revolt of Mother (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• Rex Ex Machina (Frederic Max) ⏱
• The Ring (Isak Dinesen)
• Ringing the Changes (Robert Aickman)
• Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving)
• Ripe Figs (Kate Chopin) ⏱
• The Rocking-Horse Winner (D. H. Lawrence)
• The Rockpile (James Baldwin)
• Roman Fever (Edith Wharton)
• The Romance of a Busy Broker (O. Henry) ⏱
• Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
• A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
• Roselily (Alice Walker)
• Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
• Rothschild’s Fiddle / Violin (Anton Chekhov)
• Ruthless (William de Mille) ⏱

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S

• Saboteur (Ha Jin)
• The Sacrificial Egg (Chinua Achebe) ⏱
• The Sailor-Boy’s Tale (Isak Dinesen)
• Salt (Isaac Babel) ⏱
• The Salt Inspector / Namak Ka Darogha (Premchand)
• A Scandal in Bohemia (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Scarlet Ibis (James Hurst)
• The School (Donald Barthelme) ⏱
• The Sea of Lost Time (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Searching for Summer (Joan Aiken)
• The Second Bakery Attack (Haruki Murakami)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
• The Secret Sharer (Joseph Conrad)
• Separating (John Updike)
• The Shadow in the Rose Garden (D. H. Lawrence)
• The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick)
• The Sheriff’s Children (Charles W. Chesnutt)
• Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
• A Shinagawa Monkey (Haruki Murakami)
• A Shocking Accident (Graham Green)
• Shooting an Elephant (George Orwell)
• Shopping (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (Ernest Hemingway)
• Showdown (Shirley Jackson)
• The Shroud / Kafan (Premchand)
• The Signal-man (Charles Dickens)
• Signs and Symbols (Vladimir Nabokov)
• Silent Snow, Secret Snow (Conrad Aiken)
• A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
• Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
• A Simple Heart / Soul (Gustave Flaubert)
• Six Feet of the Country (Nadine Gordimer)
• The Sky is Gray (Ernest J. Gaines)
• Slaughter House (Richard Matheson)
• Slave on the Block (Langston Hughes)
• Sleeping (Katherine Weber) ⏱
• Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (Patricia Highsmith)
• Small Change (Yehudit Hendel)
• Snapshots of a Wedding (Bessie Head)
• The Sniper (Liam O’Flaherty)
• Snow (Anne Beattie) ⏱
• The Snow Child (Angela Carter) ⏱
• Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway)
• Solipist (Fredric Brown) ⏱
• Someone to Talk To (Deborah Eisenberg)
• The Son From America (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
• Sorrow-Acre (Isak Dinesen)
• A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
• Souvenir (Jayne Anne Phillips)
• Speech Sounds (Octavia E. Butler)
• The Spider Thread (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) ⏱
• The Spinoza of Market Street (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• A Spinster’s Tale (Peter Taylor)
• Spunk (Zora Neale Hurston)
• Squeaker’s Mate (Barbara Baynton)
• The Stains (Robert Aickman)
• The Star (Arthur C. Clarke)
• The Star (H. G. Wells)
• The Stone Boy (Gina Berriault)
• Stones in my Passway, Hellhound on my Trail (T. C. Boyle)
• The Storm (Kate Chopin)
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy (Mark Twain) ⏱
• The Story of the Good Little Boy (Mark Twain)
• The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin) ⏱
• The Storyteller (Saki)
• Storyteller (Leslie Marmon Silko)
• The Stout Gentleman (Washington Irving)
• Strawberry Spring (Stephen King)
• The Subliminal Man (J. G. Ballard)
• Summer Solstice (Nick Joaquin)
• Suspicion (Dorothy Sayers)
• Swaddling Clothes (Yukio Mishima)
• Sweat (Zora Neale Hurston)
• Sweet Potato Pie (Eugenia Collier)
• The Swimmer (John Cheever)
• Swimming Lessons (Rohinton Mistry)

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T

• Teenage Wasteland (Anne Tyler)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Tell Them Not to Kill Me (Juan Rulfo)
• A Temporary Matter (Jhumpa Lahiri)
• Tennessee’s Partner (Bret Harte)
• Terrapin (Patricia Highsmith)
• Testimonial (Edwidge Danticat)
• That Evening Sun (Go Down) (William Faulkner)
• That in Aleppo Once… (Vladimir Nabokov)
• There is a Reaper (Charles de Vet)
• There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
• There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head With an Umbrella (Fernando Sorrentino) ⏱
• There Was Once (Margaret Atwood) ⏱
• They’re Made Out of Meat (Terry Bisson) ⏱
• The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
• This Blessed House (Jhumpa Lahiri)
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski)
• Thong Proi (Kukrit Pramoj)
• The Three-Day Blow (Ernest Hemingway)
• Three Elephant Power (A. B. Paterson)
• The Three Questions (Leo Tolstoy)
• Three Skeleton Key (George Toudouze)
• Through the Tunnel (Doris Lessing)
• Tickets, Please (D. H. Lawrence)
• Tiny, Smiling Daddy (Mary Gaitskill)
• Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle (Robert Butler)
• To Build a Fire (Jack London)
• To Room Nineteen (Doris Lessing)
• To Da-duh in Memoriam (Paule Marshall)
• Toba Tek Singh (Saadat Hasan Manto)
• Tobermory (Saki)
• The Toll-House (W. W. Jacobs)
• The Totara Tree (Roderick Finlayson)
• Town and Country Lovers (Nadine Gordimer)
• Toy Shop (Harry Harrison)
• The Tractor and the Corn Goddess (Mulk Raj Anand)
• The Train from Rhodesia (Nadine Gordimer)
• The Treasure in the Forest (H. G. Wells)
• The Turning (Tim Winton)
• Twenty Minutes (James Salter)
• Two Friends (Guy de Maupassant)

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U,V

• Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
• An Uncomfortable Bed (attrib. Guy de Maupassant) ⏱
• Under the Banyan Tree (R. K. Narayan)
• The Undertaker / Coffin-Maker (Alexander Pushkin)
• Unto Dust (Herman Bosman)
• Up in Michigan (Ernest Hemingway)
• Usher II (Ray Bradbury)
• The Vane Sisters (Vladimir Nabokov)
• The Veldt (Ray Bradbury)
• A Vendetta (Guy de Maupassant)
• The Vengeful Creditor (Chinua Achebe)
• The Verb to Kill (Luisa Valenzuela) ⏱
• The Verger (W. Somerset Maugham)
• A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Victory Over Japan (Ellen Gilchrist)
• Vision out of the Corner of One Eye (Luisa Valenzuela) ⏱
• The Visitor (Lydia Davis) ⏱
• The Voice of God / Holy Panchayat (Premchand)
• Voodoo (Fredric Brown) ⏱

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W-Z

• A Wagner Matinée (Willa Cather)
• Waldo (Robert Heinlein)
• Walker Brothers Cowboy (Alice Munro)
• The Wall (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Wandering Willie’s Tale (Sir Walter Scott)
• War (Luigi Pirandello)
• The War Prayer (Mark Twain) ⏱
• Was it a Dream? (Guy de Maupassant)
• The Washerwoman’s Children (Witi Ihimaera)
• Wasps’ Nest (Agatha Christie)
• The Wave (Liam O’Flaherty) ⏱
• A Way of Talking (Patricia Grace)
• The Way Up to Heaven (Roald Dahl)
• The Wedding Dance (Amador Daguio)
• The Werewolf (Angela Carter) ⏱
• What I Have Been Doing Lately (Jamaica Kincaid)
• What Men Live By (Leo Tolstoy)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
• What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Sherman Alexie)
• When Darkness Falls (Ruskin Bond)
• When the Mice Failed to Arrive (Gerald Murnane)
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy (Tim O’Brien)
• Where I’m Calling From (Raymond Carver)
• Where Is Here (Joyce Carol Oates)
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (Harlan Ellison)
• A White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett)
• The White Horses of Vienna (Kay Boyle)
• Who Will Greet You at Home (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
• Why Don’t You Dance? (Raymond Carver)
• Why I Live at the P.O. (Eudora Welty)
• The Wife’s Story (Ursula Le Guin)
• The Willows (Algernon Blackwood)
• Window (Deborah Eisenberg)
• Winter Dreams (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• With All Flags Flying (Anne Tyler)
• The Witness for the Prosecution (Agatha Christie)
• Wives of the Dead (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Woman Hollering Creek (Sandra Cisneros)
• Women in Their Beds (Gina Berriault)
• The Woman Who Came at Six O’Clock (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• A Worn Path (Eudora Welty)
• Wunderkind (Carson McCullers)
• Yellow Moepels (Herman Bosman)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Gilman)
• Yellow Woman (Leslie Marmon Silko)
• Yesterday was Beautiful (Roald Dahl)
• You’re Ugly, Too (Lorrie Moore)
• Young Archimedes (Aldous Huxley)
• Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• The Young Man Who Flew Past (Arkady Averchenko) ⏱
• Youth (Isaac Asimov)
• Youth (Joseph Conrad)
• Zero Hour (Ray Bradbury)
• Zita (Arturo B. Rotor)

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