To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London --
To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London --
An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family --
The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield --
Sleepy / Anton Chekhov --
From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough --
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain --
Repentance / Frank O'Connor --
First confession / Frank O'Connor --
The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson --
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson --
The geranium / Flannery O'Connor --
Judgement / Flannery O'Connor --
Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence --
Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence --
Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence --
The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant --
Paste / Henry James --
Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant --
The heroine / Isak Dinesen --
That evening sun / William Faulkner --
The killers / Ernest Hemingway --
An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges --
Miriam / Truman Capote --
A little companion / Angus Wilson --
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown --
The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson --
The phantom lover, two excerpts --
Dry September / William Faulkner --
Going to meet the man / James Baldwin --
The basement room / Graham Greene --
Next door / Kurt Vonnegut --
William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The eyes / Edith Wharton --
Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken --
The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov --
A painful case / James Joyce --
Barbados / Paule Marshall --
Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty --
Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson --
Awakening / Isaac Babel --
Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The judgement / Franz Kafka --
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --
Night-sea journey / John Barth.