“The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France,” Henry James

“The Evacuation of Boston,” John Bowater

“Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday,” John Guare

“On His Hands,” John O’Hara

“The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons,” Eleanor Arnason

“The Upturned Face,” Stephen Crane

“The Ship Ahoy,” Ursula K. Le Guin

“Let Me Feel Your Pulse,” O. Henry

“A Mayor and His People,” Theodore Dreiser

“Now I Lay Me,” Ernest Hemingway

“Dolly: An Idyl of the Levee,” Lafcadio Hearn

“Prevalent Idea That Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor,” Margaret Fuller

“Theft” Katherine Anne Porter

“Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji,” Gary Snyder

“Mozart and the Gray Steward,” Thornton Wilder

“The Devil and Tom Walker,” Washington Irving