Short Story


Adrian, Chris A Better Angel
Alexie, Sherman War Dances
Anderson, Sherwood Hands
Atwood, Margaret Rape Fantasies
Hairball
Ayers, Mary Alice The Infinite Dark
Baida, Peter A Nurses's Story
Bambara, Toni Cade A Girl's Story
Barrett, Andrea Ship Fever
Servants of the Map
Barthelme, Donald The President
Bass, Rick The Lives of Rocks
Beagle, Peter S. Come Lady Death
Beattie, Ann Dwarf House
Bellarosa, James M. A problem of plumbing
Berry, Wendell Fidelity
Biguenet, John Fatherhood
The Vulgar Soul
Bissell, Tom Death Defier
Bly, Carol Gunnar's Sword
Boccaccio, Giovanni Federigo's Falcon
Bontemps, Arna W. A Summer Tragedy
Borges, Jorge Luis The Immortals
Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)
Boyle, T. Coraghessan Juliana Cloth
After the Plague
Killing Babies
Bradbury, Ray The Dwarf
Fever Dream
The Leave-Taking
Brashler, Anne He Read to Her
Brecht, Bertolt The Unseemly Old Lady
Brennan, Frederick Hazlitt Nurse's Choice
Brody, Howard The Chief of Medicine
Brooks, Dorothy Howe Life Support
Brown, Stephany Matchmaking
Brown, John Rab and His Friends
Brown, Rosellen How to Win
Brown, Jeanette How to Visit a Healer
Brown, Carrie Miniature Man
Brown, III, T. K. A Drink of Water
Buck, Pearl S. The Enemy
Bulgakov, Mikhail The Murderer
Baptism by Rotation
Morphine
The Embroidered Towel
The Steel Windpipe
The Vanishing Eye
The Blizzard
The Speckled Rash
Black as Egypt's Night
Burnham, Gregory By That I Mean Angina Pectoris
Busch, Frederick The Talking Cure
Butler, Robert Olen Love
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan) The Chinese Lobster
Medusa's Ankles
Art Work
Body Art
A Stone Woman
Canin, Ethan We Are Nighttime Travelers
Batorsag and Szerelem
Capek, Karel Vertigo
Carr, Pat M. Sunday Morning
Carver, Raymond Cathedral
A Small, Good Thing
Fat
Little Things
Vitamins
Careful
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Where I'm Calling From
Caspers, Nona Vegetative States
Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin) The Father
Cather, Willa Old Mrs. Harris
Paul's Case
Neighbour Rosicky
Chabon, Michael Son of the Wolfman
Chaon, Dan Fitting Ends
Chekhov, Anton P. The Head Gardener's Story
Betrothed
Volodya
Hydrophobia
The Black Monk
Gooseberries
The Man in a Case
The Bishop
Neighbors
The Party
The Princess
Excellent People
The Doctor
The Darling
On Official Business
An Awkward Business
The Two Volodyas
Ionych
A Boring Story
Ward 6
The Duel
Enemies
The Schoolmaster
Gusev
Misery
A Doctor's Visit
An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
At Christmas Time
Mire
Kashtanka
Oysters
The Teacher of Literature
The Horse Stealers
About Love
The Kiss
The Grasshopper
Rothschild's Fiddle
Peasant Wives
The Beauties
In Exile
Late-Blooming Flowers
At Home
The New Villa
The Lady with the Dog
A Work of Art
Typhus
The Swedish Match
Lights
The Beggar
The House with an Attic
Ariadne
Murder
Terror
On Easter Eve
The Student
Perpetuum Mobile
The Examining Magistrate
Happiness
Home
Cisneros, Sandra Woman Hollering Creek
Coetzee, J. M. The Blow
Connell, Evan S. The Anatomy Lesson
Cooper, Bernard The House of the Future
Crane, Stephen An Episode of War
The Monster
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph) Doctor, I can't . . . I won't have a child.
Csáth, Géza Trepov on the Dissecting Table
The Surgeon
Dahl, Roald The Sound Machine
Poison
Darby, Ann Pity My Simplicity
Dickens, Charles Doctor Marigold
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee A Perfect Life
The Ultrasound
Doerr, Anthony The Shell Collector
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Case of Lady Sannox
The Black Doctor
Dubus, Andre Dancing After Hours
The Fat Girl
The Doctor
Dunmore, Helen The Thief
Annina
Durcan, Liam Blood
Eliot, George (Marian Evans) The Lifted Veil
Faber, Michel Finesse
Faulkner, William A Rose for Emily
Ferre, Rosario The Youngest Doll
Fincke, Gary Sorry I Worried You
Findley, Timothy Dreams
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott Family in the Wind
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) The Machine Stops
The Road from Colonus
Freed, Lynn Ma, a Memoir
Fromm, Pete The Topic of Cancer
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Leaf Storm
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Bon Voyage, Mr. President
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
The Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother
One of These Days
Garshin, Vsevolod The Scarlet Flower
Gee, Maurice A Glorious Morning, Comrade
Gilchrist, Ellen The Traveler
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Mr. Peebles' Heart
The Yellow Wallpaper
Glasgow, Ellen Jordan's End
Glaspell, Susan A Jury of Her Peers
Gogol, Nikolai The Nose
Goncz, Arpad Old People
Gordon, Arthur Old Ironpuss
Grace, Maggi Ann Her Hair
Gray, Andrew Heart of the Land
Greenberg, Joanne Hunting Season
Greene, Graham The End of the Party
Grenfell, Wilfred T. Adrift on an Ice Pan
Guista, Michael The Year of Release
Hallman, J. C. The Hospital for Bad Poets
Harleman, Ann Thoreau's Laundry
Harvor, Elisabeth Invisible Target
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Birthmark
Rappaccini's Daughter
Hellerstein, David Touching
Hemingway, Ernest A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Indian Camp
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
A Day's Wait
In Another Country
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Hills Like White Elephants
A Natural History of the Dead
Hempel, Amy In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Henderson-Holmes, Safiya Snapshots of Grace
Henry, O. The Last Leaf
Hochman, Anndee What I Know from Noses
Høeg, Peter Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hopf, Ludwig Electra: A Physical Diagnostic Tale of the Twentieth Century
Hopper, James When it Happens
Horgan, Paul The Surgeon and the Nun
Hsun, Lu Medicine
Huyler, Frank Sugar
The Dead Lake
Iagnemma, Karl Children of Hunger
Jackson, Shirley The Lottery
James, Henry Daisy Miller: A Study
The Figure in the Carpet
Jen, Gish Birthmates
Who's Irish?
Johnson, Denis Emergency
Jolley, Elizabeth Hilda's Wedding
Dingle the Fool
Jones, Thom Way Down Deep in the Jungle
Ooh Baby Baby
40, Still at Home
I Want to Live!
Joyce, James Araby
Kafka, Franz In the Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist
A Report to an Academy
A Country Doctor
Kanafani, Ghassan Death of Bed 12
Karnezis, Panos Medical Ethics
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
Kingsolver, Barbara Homeland
Kis, Danilo The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klíma, Ivan Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
Kornbluth, Cyril M. The Little Black Bag
Kotzwinkle, William Stroke of Good Luck: A True Nurse Romance
LaCombe, Michael Playing God
Lahiri, Jhumpa Only Goodness
Landolfi, Tomasso Gogol's Wife
Lasdun, James The Incalculable Life Gesture
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Blind Man
Lawson, Henry 'Water Them Geraniums'
Brighten's Sister-in-Law
Leffland, Ella The Linden Tree
LeGuin, Ursula K. May's Lion
Geezers
Lehane, Dennis ICU
Lessing, Doris To Room Nineteen
London, Jack Semper Idem
The Law of Life
Told in the Drooling Ward
Long, David Morphine
MacLaverty, Bernard The Clinic
Malamud, Bernard The Silver Crown
Idiots First
Mann, Thomas Tristan
Mansfield, Katherine The Man Without a Temperament
Massad, Stewart Casualties
The Veteran
Healers
Change
Dreams of a Doctor's Wife
Mates, Susan Onthank Ambulance
Laundry
The Good Doctor
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset Sanatorium
Lord Mountdrago
Maupassant, Guy de The Devil
The Marquis de Fumerol
An Old Man
McCabe, Eugene Cancer
McEwan, Ian The Diagnosis
Pornography
Menick, Stephen Dr. Rapallo
Millhauser, Steven The Wizard of West Orange
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir The Case of George Dedlow
Moore, Lorrie People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Morrison, Toni Recitatif
Munro, Alice Floating Bridge
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Comfort
Before the Change
The Time of Death
The Office
Murakami, Haruki Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Murray, John A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Watson and the Shark
Narayan, R. K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswami) The Doctor's Word
An Astrologer's Day
Newman, Carol Butchering Time
Norris, Helen Mrs. Moonlight
Novakovich, Josip Bruno
O'Brien, Edna The Creature
O'Brien, Tim The Lives of the Dead
Good Form
O'Connell, Mary Saint Ursula and Her Maidens
O'Connor, Flannery The Lame Shall Enter First
Revelation
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Greenleaf
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
A Late Encounter With the Enemy
Good Country People
Oates, Joyce Carol The Sepulchre
Oe, Kenzaburo Aghwee the Sky Monster
Offutt, Chris Out of the Woods
Barred Owl
Olsen, Tillie Tell Me a Riddle
I Stand Here Ironing
Padilla, Ignacio Amends in Halak-Proot
Paley, Grace A Conversation with My Father
Parkman, Kathy M. Everything That Falls Has Wings
Perkins, Fionna The Changes
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla Hygiene
Phillips, Jayne Ann Souvenir
Plath, Sylvia The Wishing Box
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich The Third Son
Poe, Edgar Allan Hop-Frog
The Masque of the Red Death
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Imp of the Perverse
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Pollack, Eileen Milk
Porter, Katherine Anne Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Holiday
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Proulx, E. Annie Bedrock
Richter, Conrad Michael Doctor Hanray's Second Chance
Robinson, Roxana The Treatment
Russell, Lori One Last Time
Schneiderman, L. J. The Appointment
Sequel
Schnitzler, Arthur Blind Geronimo and His Brother
Schreck, Karen Halvorsen The Slaughterhouse
Schulz, Bruno Father's Last Escape
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon So You're Going to Have a New Body !
The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Selzer, Richard Brute
Mercy
Fetishes
Imelda
Whither Thou Goest
Luis
Pipistrel
Toenails
Sarcophagus
Atrium: October 2001
The Whistlers' Room
A Blue Ribbon Affair
Tom and Lily
Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
The Consultation
Avalanche
Minor Surgery
Silbert, Layle Losses
Simmons, Dan The River Styx Runs Upstream
Simpson, Helen If I'm Spared
Smith, Sybil A Dog Named Hopi
Solwitz, Sharon Mercy
Sontag, Susan The Way We Live Now
Sparks, Rennie Skanks
Stafford, Jean The Interior Castle
Stern, Richard G. Dr. Cahn's Visit
Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Body Snatcher
Stone, Robert Absence of Mercy
Sumrall, Amber Coverdale Crossing the High Country
Thon, Melanie Rae First, Body
Tilghman, Christopher Things Left Undone
Torga, Miguel The Lord
Trevor, Douglas The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Trevor, William Sacred Statues
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich The District Doctor
Twain, Mark Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
Updike, John From the Journal of a Leper
My Love Has Dirty Fingernails
The Fairy Godfathers
Metamorphosis
The Persistence of Desire
Giving Blood
The City
Viramontes, Helena Maria The Moths
Vivante, Arturo Last Rites
By the Bedside
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt Adam
Walker, Alice To Hell with Dying
The Abortion
Walker, Daly I Am the Grass
Wallace, David Foster Incarnations of Burned Children
Warren, Rosalind Outpatient
Weldon, Fay A Libation of Blood
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) The Country of the Blind
Under the Knife
The Stolen Bacillus
Welty, Eudora A Worn Path
Why I Live at the P.O.
Lilly Daw and the Three Ladies
Wharton, Edith Diagnosis
Roman Fever
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) The Second Tree from the Corner
Wideman, John Edgar newborn thrown in trash and dies
Wigfall, Clare Safe
Williams, Marie Sheppard Wilma Bremer's Funeral
Williams, William Carlos A Night in June
Old Doc Rivers
The Use of Force
Jean Beicke
The Girl with a Pimply Face
A Face of Stone
Williams, Ben Ames The Nurse
Wilson, Jonathan Dead Ringers
Wisenberg, S. (Sandi) L. Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain
Wolff, Tobias Bullet in the Brain
Casualty
Wolitzer, Hilma Mother
Wood, Monica Disappearing
Yglesias, Helen Semi-Private
Yount, Rena Pursuit of Excellence
Zelman, Cynthia Our Menstruation
Zivkovic, Zoran The Violinist