The Story and Its Writer

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Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The last lovely city / Alice Adams Dominoes / Jack Agueros The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen And of clay arewe created / Isabel Allende Death in the woods ; Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood My first goose / Isaac Babel Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Lost in the funhouse / John Barth The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme Janus / Ann Beattie [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski The eye / Paul Bowles Black boy / Kay Boyle Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. Coraghessan Boyle A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The feathered ogre / Italo Calvio The guest / Albert Camus The erl-king / Angela Carter Cathedral / Raymond Carver Errand / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever The darling / Anton Chekhov The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt [Désirée's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) / Kate Chopin [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Axolotl / Julio Cortázar The open boat / Stephen Crane The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Battle royal / Ralph Ellison King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert 1933 / Mavis Gallant A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol Town and country lovers / Nadine Gordimer My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne Life / Bessie Head Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston The lottery / Shirley Jackson The beast in the jungle / Henry James A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Menagerie, a child's fable / Charles Johnson [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Odour of chysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Braids / David Leavitt The ones who walk away from the Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin Debbie and Julie / Doris Lessing Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield The dog of titwal / Saadat Hasan Manto Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant [Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville Fountains in the rain / Yukio Mishima How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Walker brothers cowboy / Alice Munro Heat / Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor Good country people / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor In the shadow of war / Ben Okri I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The shawl / Cynthia Ozick A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz [The cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allen Poe [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe He / Katherine Anne Porter A great day / Frank Sargeson Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer Long distance / Jane Smiley The way we live now / Susan Sontag The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck Two kinds / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber Night / Tatyana Tolstaya The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy A & P / John Updike Roselily / Alice Walker Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty A worn path / Eudora Welty Roman fever / Edith Wharton The beginning of Homewood / John Edgar Wideman Exchanging glances / Christa Wolf Say yes / Tobias Wolff Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The eskimo connection / Hisaye Yamamoto

subjects: American Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction,  Homicide,  Horror,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Horror tales,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder,  short stories,  miscegenation,  Louisiana Creoles,  quadroons,  racism,  freedom,  selfhood,  self-fulfillment,  meaning of love,  short story,  tradition,  change,  death,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  African Americans,  husband and wife,  race relations,  Satanism,  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,  Revenge,  History,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union

People: Armand Aubigny,  Désirée,  Madame Valmont,  Sandrine,  La Blanche,  Louise Mallard,  Brently Mallard,  Josephine,  Richards,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Quentin Compson,  Nancy,  Caddy,  Jason,  Dilsey,  Jesus,  Mrs. Compson,  Mr. Stovall,  Jailer,  Mr. Lovelady,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  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,  Peyton Farquhar

Places: Louisiana,  L’Abri,  Mallard residence,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Araby,  North Richmond Street,  Araby bazaar,  Ireland,  Galway,  New York,  Wall Street,  United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge

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