Contains:
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Mother Savage / Guy de Maupassant --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
An upheaval / Anton Chekhov --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Eveline / James Joyce --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
Sweat 142 / Zora Neale Hurston --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright --
Livvie / Eudora Welty --
Reunion / John Cheever --
The guest / Albert Camus --
A party down at the square / Ralph Ellison --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --
Vandals / Alice Munro --
A & P / John Updike --
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
Died and gone to Vegas / Tim Gautreaux --
Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb --
Two kinds / Amy Tan --
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros --
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich --
How to talk to your mother (notes) / Lorrie Moore.