Ballou - Letter to his wife, Sarah

Bierce - "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"

Bradbury - "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Byron - "The Prisoner of Chillon"

Chekhov - "The Lady With The Pet Dog"

Chopin - "Desiree's Baby"

Chopin - "The Storm"

Chopin - "The Story of an Hour"

Dahl - "Lamb to the Slaughter"

Faulkner - "A Rose for Emily"

Franklin - "Dialogue Between Franklin and The Gout"

Grimm - "Godfather Death"

Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown"

Hemingway - "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

Hemingway - "Hills Like White Elephants"

Hemingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Henry - "After Twenty Years"

Hurston - "Sweat"

Irving - "The Devil and Tom Walker"

Irving - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Jackson - "The Lottery"

Joyce - "Eveline"

Lawrence - "The Rocking Horse Winner"

London - "To Build a Fire"

Maugham - "The Appointment in Samarra"

Maupassant - "The Necklace"

Melville - "Bartleby, The Scrivener"

O'Connor - "Good Country People"

O'Connor - "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Orwell - "Shooting an Elephant"

Poe - "The Cask of Amontillado"

Poe - "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Porter - "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

Shelley - "Transformation"

Shelley - "Ozymandias"

Shulman - "Love is a Fallacy"

Steinbeck - "Flight"

Steinbeck - "The Chrysanthemums"

Thoreau - "The Battle of the Ants"

Thurber - "The Catbird Seat"

Thurber - "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Tolstoy - "The Three Hermits"

Twain - "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed"

Twain - "Two Ways of Seeing a River"

Updike - "A & P"

Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron"

Vonnegut - "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"

Walker - "Everyday Use"