Fictions

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Truth or consequences / Alice Adams The egg / Sherwood Anderson Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks The author / Donald Barthelme [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/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 Conard Press clippings / Julio Cortazar Barthelme the author / Julio Cortazar We love Glenda so much / Julio Cortazar The open boat / Stephen Crane The blue hotel / Stephen Crane [The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Arthur Conan Doyle Killings / Andre Debus Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner That evening star / William Faulkner [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / 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 / Ellen Gilchrist Traceleen, she's still talking / Ellen Gilchrist The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Dream children / Gail Godwin The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer The destructors / Graham Greene [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 / Charles Johnson The sorcerer's apprentice / Charles Johnson [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce A hungry artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka In the Penal colony / Franz Kafka Patriotic / Janet Kauffman The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin The black madonna / Doris Lessing A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing To build a fire / Jack London The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield Brooklyn / Paule Marshall Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville Patriotism / Yukio Mishima How I met my husband / Alice Munro Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates By the river / Joyce Carol Oates A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Revelation / Flannery O'Connor Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Guest of the nation / Frank O'Connor I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen A conversation with my father / Grace Paley The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter The grave / Katherine Anne Porter Defender of the faith / Philip Roth Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck The catbird seat / James Thurber The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain A & P / John Updike Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Everyday use / Alice Walker To hell with dying / Alice Walker "Really, doesn't crime pay?" / Alice Walker A worn path / Eudora Welty Petrified man / Eudora Welty Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant / W.D. Wetherell Roman fever / Edith Wharton The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union,  Collections,  amorality,  Anglo-Saxons,  aristocracy,  detective fiction,  locked-room mysteries,  Mystery and detective stories,  Drama,  Private investigators,  Children's fiction,  tradition,  change,  death,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  class conflict,  Satanism,  short story,  Puritans,  catechism,  Devil,  Boys,  20th century English fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  christian fiction,  Christmas,  Christmas fiction,  Christmas stories,  Criticism and interpretation,  Daily Express,  Domestic fiction,  English fiction,  family life,  Family reunions,  Stories (texts),  The Lass of Aughrim,  Three Graces,  West Britons,  Young men,  Copyists,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  history and criticism,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Horror stories,  Juvenile fiction,  Revenge

People: Peyton Farquhar,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Stroke Moran,  Helen Stoner,  Grimesby Roylott,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Sartoris Snopes,  Abner Snopes,  Lennie Snopes,  Lizzie,  Major de Spain,  Mr. Harris,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Aylmer,  Georgiana,  Mangan's sister,  Gabriel Conroy,  Kate Morkan,  Julia Morkan,  Mary Jane Morkan,  Lily,  Gretta Conroy,  Molly Ivors,  Mr Browne,  Freddy Malins,  Mrs Malins,  Bartell D'Arcy,  Patrick Morkan,  Michael Furey,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  England,  Calcutta,  India,  Surrey,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County,  Justice of the Peace Court,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Araby,  North Richmond Street,  Araby bazaar,  Ireland,  Galway,  New York,  Wall Street

Times: Antebellum era,  19th century,  1600s,  Carnival,  1861-65