The Wood Duck
By: James Thurber
3.03
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck.” Story about a wood duck who l…
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1. I Bought a Little City
By: Donald Barthelme
3.48
Format: 13 pages, Kindle Edition
"I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god,… read more
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3. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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4. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
5. Dark Lies the Island
By: Kevin Barry
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday TimesEFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that … read more
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6. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
7. Emergency
By: Denis Johnson
4.38
Format: None pages, Podcast
I'd like to strongly recommend that you listen to this month's fiction podcast, in which Tobias Wol… read more
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- short stories
8. The Jockey
By: Carson McCullers
4.11
Format: 98 pages,
The Jockeyis a short story set among the horse racing circles of Depression era America. Published … read more
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9. Reunion
By: John Cheever , Richard Ford
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Father & Son, New York City, Grand Central Station. Short story in which the narrator recalls the l… read more
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10. A Christmas Memory
By: Truman Capote
3.27
Format: None pages, Audio CD
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's ru… read more
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11. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
12. A&P: Lust in the Aisles
By: John Updike
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A & P" is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person na… read more
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13. You Must Know Everything
By: Isaac Babel
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
This volume collects nineteen Babel stories of the period 1915 to 1937 that have never before been … read more
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"Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that..."-Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
15. How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie
By: Junot Díaz
3.23
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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16. When we were nearly young
By: Mavis Gallant
3.19
Format: None pages, magazine
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17. The Wood Duck
By: James Thurber
3.03
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck.” Story about a wood duck who l… read more
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19. The Man of the World
By: Frank O'Connor
3.59
Format: None pages, None
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20. A Summer's Reading
By: Bernard Malamud
2.95
Format: None pages, None
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21. Brothers and Sisters Around the World
By: Andrea Lee
3.77
Format: None pages, None
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23. My Russian Education
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.27
Format: None pages, None
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24. Los niños se aburren los domingos
By: Jean Stafford
3.79
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Los niños se aburren los domingos es una selección de los mejores relatos de Jean Stafford, ganador… read more
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25. A Father-to-Be
By: Saul Bellow
3.45
Format: 7 pages, None
A man on the subway imagine's his future child and grandchild. read more
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26. A Family Man
By: V.S. Pritchett
3.81
Format: 27 pages, None
Also available as a podcast audiobook. Search for Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett read more
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28. Chef's House and Preservation
By: Raymond Carver
3.56
Format: None pages, None
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30. Figures in the Distance
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
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