Isle Aichinger / The bound man -- Sherwood Anderson / I want to know why -- James Baldwin / This morning, this evening, so soon -- John Barth / Title -- Donald Barthelme / The balloon -- Saul Bellow / Looking for Mr. Green -- Ambrose Bierce / Chickamauga - Arna Bontemps / A summer tragedy -- Jorge Luis Borges / The garden of forking paths --Elizabeth Bowen / The demon lover -- Kay Boyle / Astromer’s wife -- Ray Bradbury / August 2002: Night meeting -- Albert Camus / The guest -- John Cheever / The country husband -- Anton Chekhov / The Bet; The darling; Gooseberries -- Agatha Christie / The disappearance of Mr. Davenheim -- Arthur C. Clark / The star -- Samuel L. Clemens / The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- Wilkie Collins / The traveler’s story of a terribly strange bed -- Joseph Conrad / The secret sharer -- Hubert Crackanthorpe / Anthony Garstin’s courtship -- Stephen Crane / The blue hotel -- Charles Dickens / The signal-man -- Fedor Dostoevski / The grand inquisitor -- Arthur Conan Doyle / The adventure of the speckled band -- Albert Drake / The chicken which became a rat -- Harlan Ellison / “Repent, Harlequin!” said the ticktockman -- Ralph Ellison / King of the bingo game -- William Faulkner / Dry September; The old people; That evening sun -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Winter dreams -- E. M. Forster / The celestial omnibus -- William H. Gass / In the heart of the heart of the country -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The yellow wall-paper -- George Gissing / The house of cobwebs -- Nikolai Gogol / The overcoat -- Dashell Hammett / They can only hang you once -- Thomas Hardy / The three strangers -- Bret Harte / Tennessee’s partner -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / My kinsman, Major Molineux; Roger Malvin’s buriel; Young Goodman Brown -- Ernest Hemingway / The killers -- Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle -- Shirley Jackson / The lottery -- Henry James / The beast in the jungle; Four meetings; The tree of knowledge -- Sarah Orne Jewett / The town poor -- James Joyce / Araby; The dead; Ivy day in the committee room -- Franz Kafka / A hunger artist -- Rudyard Kipling / They -- D. H. Lawrence / The rocking-horse winner -- Doris Lessing / One off the short list -- Jack London / To build a fire -- Carson McCullers / A tree, a rock, a cloud -- James Alan McPherson / Gold Coast -- Bernard Malamud / The magic barrel -- Thomas Mann / Mario and the magician -- Katherine Mansfield / The man without a temperament -- Guy De Maupassant / Little soldier -- Herman Melville / Bartleby the scrivener -- Yukio Mishima / Patriotism -- H. H. Munro (Saki) / Sredni Vashtar -- Joyce Carol Oates / Four summers -- Flannery O’Connor / The artificial nigger; Everything that rises must converge; A good man is hard to find -- Frank O’Connor / Guests of the nation -- Dorothy Parker / Big blonde -- Edgar Allan Poe / The cask of Amontillado; The man of the crowd; The purloined letter -- Katherine Anne Porter / The grave -- Alain Robbe-Grillet / The secret room -- Philip Roth / Defender of the faith -- Dorothy L. Sayers / Absolutely elsewhere -- Alan Sillitoe / The loneliness of the long-distance runner -- Isaac Bashevis Singer / Gimpel the fool -- John Steinbeck / The chrysanthemums -- Robert Louis Stevenson / Markheim -- Peter Taylor / Miss Leonora when last seen -- James Thurber / The catbird seat -- Leo Tolstoy / The death of Ivan Ilych -- Lionel Trilling / Of this time, of that place -- Ivan Turgenev / The country doctor -- Miguel De Unamuno / Saint Emmanuel the Good, martyr -- John Updike / A & P -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Report on the barnhouse effect -- H. G. Wells / The country of the blind -- Eudora Welty / The demonstrators; Petrified man; Powerhouse -- E. B. White / The second tree from the corner -- Richard Wright / The man who was almost a man