[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Masque of the Red Death ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Wild swans / Alice Munro -- A & P / John Updike -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich.