Title: Fictions--Second Edition
Description: 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
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
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
Time periods: Antebellum era, 19th century, 1600s, Carnival, 1861-65