"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
"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
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1. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
By: Karen Russell
3.79
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magic… read more
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"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
2. The Hermit's Story
By: Rick Bass
4.10
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Hermit’s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a… read more
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"You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard w…"-Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story
3. A Small, Good Thing
By: Raymond Carver
4.01
Format: 30 pages,
A Small, Good Thing is an award winning short story by American author Raymond Carver. It was inclu… read more
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4. Fiesta, 1980
By: Junot Díaz
3.46
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, cons… read more
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5. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
6. Araby
By: James Joyce
3.65
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more
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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."-James Joyce, Araby
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"-James Joyce, Araby
7. The Lesson
By: Toni Cade Bambara
3.94
Format: None pages,
...teacher takes her inner city students to FAO Swhwart read more
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8. A Clean Well Lighted Place
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more
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9. The Story of an Hour
By: Kate Chopin
4.07
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more
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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
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11. How To Become A Writer
By: Lorrie Moore
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'How To Become a Writer' is one of the stories in Lorrie Moore's debut collection Self-Help. This s… read more
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13. When a Child Is Born (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #2.5)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.66
Format: 176 pages, ebook
A Christmas Short Story by best-selling author Jodi Taylor It's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from … read more
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14. The Swimmer
By: John Cheever
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more
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15. 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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17. The Last Leaf
By: O. Henry , None , Walter Pauk , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sue and Johnsy are two girlfriends who live together in New York City. When Johnsy becomes sick one… read more
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18. 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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19. Happy Endings
By: Margaret Atwood
4.12
Format: 440 pages, ebook
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more
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20. 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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21. Girl
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more
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22. The Great Silence
By: Karen Joy Fowler , Ted Chiang
3.68
Format: 113 pages,
"Ted Chiang's very short story, 'The Great Silence' adds another set of questions to the Fermi Para… read more
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23. The Ash-Tree
By: M.R. James
3.94
Format: 229 pages, ebook
Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … 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
26. A Temporary Matter
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.18
Format: 15 pages, ebook
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characte… read more
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27. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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28. Girls, at Play
By: Celeste Ng
3.85
Format: None pages, None
"Girls, at Play" is a short story about childhood, sexuality, and class, originally published in th… read more
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31. The Bath (SHORT STORY)
By: Raymond Carver
3.36
Format: None pages, ebook
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