Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe An occurrence at owl creek bridge/ Ambrose Bierce The story of an hour / Kate Chopin The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Araby / James Joyce Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf A hunger artist / Franz Kafka Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield A rose for Emily / William Faulkner Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen The swimmer / John Cheever-- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison The lottery / Shirley Jackson Sonny's blues / James Baldwin A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez Cathedral / Raymond Carver Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Happy endings / Margaret Atwood Everyday use / Alice Walker The things they carried / Tim O'Brien The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko Girl / Jamaica The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros The red convertible / Louise Erdich Sticks / George Sanders The great Silence / Ted Chang Brownies / ZZ Packer Echo Ave. / Adrian Tomine Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff You can find love now / Ramona Ausubel Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell If you see me, don't say hi / Neel Patel A modern marriage / Grace Oluseyi The suitcase / Meron Hadero