A pretty story / Francis Hopkinson --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin --
The grey champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe --
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
Captain Kidd's money / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton --
Over on t'other mounting / Charles Egbert Cradock --
The revolt of mother / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce --
The return of a pirate / Hamlin Garland --
The real thing /. Henry James --
The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel Langhorne Clemens --
The furnished room / O. Henry --
To build a fire / Jack London --
The strength of god and the teacher / Sherwood Anderson --
The diamond as big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
Double birthday / Willa Cather --
Spring evening / James T. Farrell --
Masses of men / Erskine Caldwell --
The guilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
An odor of verbena / William Faulkner --
The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter --
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck --
Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty --
Fire and cloud / Richard Wright --
The patterns of love / William Maxwell --
The ballad of the Sad Cafe / Carson McCullers --
Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren --
The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford --
Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor --
Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
February 1999: Ylla / Ray Bradbury --
The country husband / John Cheever --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
The mexican girl / Jack Kerouac --
The Pedersen kid / William H. Gas --
Seven say you can hear corn grow / Kay Boyle --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin --
Yellow woman / Leslie Silko.