The bear / William Faulkner
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
Everyday use / Alice Walker
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
Gimpel the fool / Issac Bashevis Singer
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
The swimmer / John Cheever
The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer
A worn path / Eudora Welty.