The Ninny / Anton Pavlovich Chekov
A Day's Wait / Ernest Hemingway
Thank You, M'am / Langston Hughes
The Story – Teller / H. H. Munro (Saki)
The Six Rows of Pompons / Toshio Mori
Zoo / Edward D. Hoch
The Luckiest Time of All / Lucille Clifton
Utzel and His Daughter, Poverty / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Crime on Mars / Arthur C. Clarke
Home / Gwendolyn Brooks
Stolen Day / Sherwood Anderson
A Secret for Two / Quentin Reynolds
The House Guest / Paul Darcy Boles
ALL Summer in a Day / Ray Bradbury
What Stumped the Blue-jays / Mark Twain
Christmas Day in the Morning / Pearl S. Buck
The Trout / Sean O' Faolain
Accounts Settled / Paul Annixter
Rain, Rain, Go Away / Isaac Asimov
The Third Wish / Joan Aiken
The Sneaker Crisis / Shirley Jackson
Caleb's Brother / James Baldwin
The Night the Bed Fell / James Grover Thurber
All Stories Are Anansi's / Harold Courlander
The Little Lizard's Sorrow / Mai Vo-Dinh
The Interlopers / Saki
The Lady or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton
All the Years of Her Life / Morley Callaghan
The Woman Who Had No Eye … / William Maxwell
The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe

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