The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- / Truth or consequences / Alice Adams -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks -- The author / Donald Barthelme -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- The guest / Albert Camus -- A small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Press clippings ; We love Glenda so much / Julio Cortazar -- The open boat ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Killings / Andre Dubus -- Battle royal ; King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- A rose for Emily ; That evening sun ; Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Thank you for the lovely tea / Mavis Gallant -- Revenge ; Traceleen, she's still talking / Ellen Gilchrist -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown ; The birthmark ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Moon of Atevo / Larry Heinemann -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- On the road / Langston Hughes -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The real thing / Henry James -- Spells / Tama Janowitz -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Moving pictures ; The sorcerer's apprentice / Charles Johnson -- Araby ; The dead / James Joyce -- A hunger artist ; The metamorphosis ; In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Patriotic / Janet Kauffman -- The only man on liberty street / William Melvin Kelley.