Short Stories
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Lady with the lapdog by Anton Chekhov
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The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
The Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
War by Luigi Pirandello
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence
Araby by James Joyce
The Dead by James Joyce
Eveline by James Joyce
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Babylon Revisited by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Jay by Yasunari Kawabata
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz
Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor
My Oedipus Complex by Frank O’Connor
The Basement Room by Graham Greene
The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov
Sounds by Vladimir Nabokov
That in Aleppo Once … by Vladimir Nabokov
Blind Love by VS Pritchett
The Eye by Paul Bowles
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
The Adventure of a Poet by Italo Calvino
Fountains in the Room by Yukio Mishima
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Perfect Day for Banana Fish by JD Salinger
For Esme with Love & Squalor by JD Salinger
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates
by Jorge Luis Borges
Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
The Country Husband by John Cheever
The Swimmer by John Cheever
Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Axis by Alice Munro
The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Eisenheim the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser
A Visit by Steven Millhauser
Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
The Guest by Albert Camus
26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss by Kij Johnson
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
Experience by Tessa Hadley
Still Here by Anna Krein
Black Box by Jennifer Egan
A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley
A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow
Janus by Ann Beattie
Death of a Travelling Salesman by Eudora Welty
Pigeon Feathers by John Updike
Happy Endings by Margaret Attwood
The Balloon by Donald Barthelme
The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
The Soul is Not a Smithy by David Foster Wallace
All That by David Foster Wallace
Octet by David Foster Wallace
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
The Piano Tuner’s Wives by William Trevor
A Day by William Trevor
How to Talk to your Mother by Lorrie Moore
Terrific Mother by Lorrie Moore
People Like That Are the Only People Here by Lorrie Moore
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Car Crash While Hitchhiking by Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Train by Joy Williams
Brownies by ZZ Packer
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Isabelle by George Saunders
Semplica Girl Diaries by George Saunders
Reading Chekhov by David Means
Baader-Meinhof by Don DeLillo
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
Creative Writing by Etger Keret
Singapore Writers
Cardiff by Stephanie Ye
The Finger by Jon Gresham
The Tiger of 142B by Dave Chua
Why Do Chinese People Have Slanted Eyes by Amanda Lee Koe
Last Night I Dreamt That Harry Was In Love With Me by Amanda Lee Koe
Fits and Starts by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Sophia’s Party by Jeremy Tiang
Sophia’s Honeymoon by JeremyTiang
The Letter by Cyril Wong
Tahar by Yeow Kai Chai
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Hanging by Alfian Bin Sa'at
Four Women by Alfian Sa’at
Bugis by Alfian Sa’at
Fifteen by Tania de Rozario
A Day in the Death by Sara Adam Ang
The Building by Verena Tay
Two Among Many by Philip Holden