House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros --
Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict.
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man / William Austin
The Wives of the Dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The Ghost in the Mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville
Cannibalism in the Cars / Samuel Clemens
The Middle Years / Henry James
A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Old Woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Sheriff's Children / Charles Chesnutt
The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Journey / Edith Wharton
The Little Regiment / Stephen Crane
A Death in the Desert / Willa Cather
The Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson
In a Far Country / Jack London
The Girl with a Pimply Face / William Carlos Williams
The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft
Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer
An Alcoholic Case / F. Scott Fitzgerald
That Evening Sun / William Faulkner
Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway
Red-Headed Baby / Langston Hughes
The Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright
A Bottle of Milk for Mother / Nelson Algren
Where Is the Voice Coming From? / Eudora Welty
A Distant Episode / Paul Bowles
The Country Husband / John Cheever
Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison
My Son the Murderer / Bernard Malamud
The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury
Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin
A Late Encounter with the Enemy / Flannery O'Connor
The Shawl / Cynthia Ozark
The School / Donald Barthelme
The Persistence of Desire / John Updike
Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth
The Mud Below / Annie Proulx
Are These Actual Miles? / Raymond Carver
The Child Screams and Looks Back at You / Russell Banks
Give It Up for Billy / Edmund White
Under the Radar / Richard Ford
Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff
The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien
Filthy with Things / T. C. Boyle
Today Will Be a Quiet Day / Amy Hempel
The Drowned Life / Jeffrey Ford
Children as Enemies / Ha Jin
How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore
Good People / David Foster Wallace
Mercy / Pinckney Benedict
Hell-Heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri
Edison, New Jersey / Junot Díaz
