Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The storm / Kate Chopin --
The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
The dead / James Joyce --
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright --
Livvie / Eudora Welty --
Flying home / Ralph Ellison --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing --
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor --
The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez --
Civil peace / Chinua Achebe --
Wild swans / Alice Munro --
A & P / John Updike --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez --
Fleur / Louise Erdrich.