Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
Araby / James Joyce --
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
Rope / Katherine Anne Porter --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant --
The loons / Margaret Laurence --
Dulse / Alice Munro --
Inland passage / Jane Rule --
A & P / John Updike --
Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath --
The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth --
The motor car / Austin C. Clarke --
The concert stages of Europe / Jack Hodgins --
The resplendent quetzal / Margaret Atwood --
The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee --
Borders / Thomas King --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
The naked man / Greg Hollingshead --
Cages / Guy Vanderhaeghe --
Two kinds / Amy Tan.