Tales with a twist: Tiger in the house / Ruskin Bond --
Rolls for the Czar / Robin Kinkead --
Panther: Bedtime story / Pinckney Benedict --
Astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan --
Colomber / Dino Buzzati --
Turning points: Three wise guys: Un Cuento De Navidad-Christmas story / Sandra Cisneros --
Trout / Sean O'Faolain --
No-guitar blues / Gary Soto --
I confess / Wei Wenjuan --
War / Luigi Pirandello --
Heart of the matter: Home / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Success story / James Gould Cozzens --
Man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --
Bracelet / Yoshido Uchida --
Plot: Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston --
Dinner party / Mona Gardner --
Stolen day / Sherwood Anderson --
Who's there? / Arthur C. Clarke --
Interlopers / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
Character: Gentleman of Rio En Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo --
Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes --
All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan --
Rifles of the regiment / Eric Knight --
Charles / Shirley Jackson --
Setting: All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury --
Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty --
Too soon a woman / Dorothy M. Johnson --
Wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty --
La Puerta / Jose Antonio Buciaga --
Point of view: Day's wait / Ernest Hemingway --
Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen --
Piece of yarn / Guy de Maupassant --
Lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton --
Tone: Circuit / Francisco Jimenez --
Secret for two / Quentin Reynolds --
Princess and the tin box / James Thurber --
Top of the food chain / T. Coraghessan Boyle --
Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez --
Theme: Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Anderson --
Nincompoop / Anton Chekhov --
Ambush / Tim O'Brien --
Game of catch / Richard Wilbur --
Return / Ngugi wa Thiong'o --
Total effect: Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
August heat / William Fryer Harvey --
Luck / Mark Twain --
Gift of the magi / O. Henry --
Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz.