“A Point at Issue!” Kate Chopin
“Insert Flap ‘A’ and Throw Away,” S. J. Perelman
“Atrophy,” Edith Wharton
“The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall,” Joan Didion
“The Sentimentality of William Tavener,” Willa Cather
“Cannibalism in the Cars,” Mark Twain
“The Purple Dress,” O. Henry
“Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” Stephen Crane
“Absolution,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Out of Season,” Ernest Hemingway
“A Lady from Redhorse,” Ambrose Bierce
“Let Slavery Die,” Henry Highland Garnet
“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett
Nancy Hale, “The Bubble”
Bernard Malamud, “The Silver Crown”
John Muir, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”