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Courage | Bravery | Heroism
Crime
Cycles
Death
Depression | Mental Illness
Destiny | Fate
Difficult
Discovery | Epiphanies
Diseases | Disabilities
Disturbing
Doctors
Doppelgangers | Duality
Dreams | Imagination
Drugs | Alcohol
Epistolary
Escape
Experimental
Faith | Religion
Family
Famous
Favorites
Fear
Feminism
Flash Fiction
Flashbacks
Flying
Food
Gambling
Gangsters
Giving
Gothicism
Greed
Grief
Guilt
Historical
The Holocaust
Hope | Disappointment
Humorous
Hunting
Identity
Immigrants | Culture Clash
Independence | Individuality
Integrity | Honor
Interesting
Jack Reacher
Jealousy
Jewish
Journeys
Justice | Injustice
Kidnapping
Legal
Life
Loneliness | Isolation | Alienation
Love | Relationships
Loyalty
Marriage
Math
Medieval
Memory
Metafiction | Postmodern
Middle & High School
Mind Blowing
Miss Marple
Money | Materialism
Morality | Ethics
Morals | Lessons
Murder
Music
Mystery
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Cozy
Christmas
Detectives
Hercule Poirot
Historical
Locked-Room
Police
Whodunit
Myths
Native American
Nature | Environment
New York
Noir
Novelettes
Obsession
Open Ended
Perception | Perspective
Philosophy
Poverty
Pride
Public Domain
Racism | Discrimination | Prejudice
Realism
Redemption
Revenge
Rivalry
Sacrifice
Sad
Satire
Sea
Second Person POV
Serial Killers
Similar Stories
Southern
Spies
Sports
Menu Toggle
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Golf
Stalkers
Survival
Tall Tales
Terrorism (9/11)
Thrillers
Time
Twist Endings
Unforgettable
Unreliable Narrators
Unrequited Love
Very Short
Victorian
War
Weird
Western
Wilderness
Women
Work
Writing
Young Adult (YA Fiction)
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Menu
Menu Toggle
Afrofuturism
Aliens | Monsters
Menu Toggle
Alien Invasions
Apocalypse | Post-Apocalyptic
Cosmic Horror
Cyberpunk | Steampunk
Dinosaurs | Dragons
Dystopias
Fairy Tales for Adults
Far Future
Freezing Yourself
Genetic Engineering
Hugo Award
Mad Scientists
Magical Realism
Mars | Venus
Moon
Mutants
Myths
Parallel Universes | Dimensions
Robots | A.I.
SciFi/Fantasy Horror
Space Opera
Star Trek
Star Wars
Superhero
Teleportation
Time Travel
Twilight Zone
Virtual Reality
Zombies
Authors
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Sherwood Anderson
Jeffrey Archer
Margaret Atwood
James Baldwin
Ambrose Bierce
Heinrich Böll
Jorge Luis Borges
Paul Bowles
Ray Bradbury
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
John Cheever
Anton Chekhov
Lee Child
Kate Chopin
Agatha Christie
John Collier
Joseph Conrad
Roald Dahl
Jeffery Deaver
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Neil Gaiman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
O. Henry
Shirley Jackson
James Joyce
Jamaica Kincaid
Stephen King
Ursula K. Le Guin
Doris Lessing
Jack London
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Katherine Mansfield
Richard Matheson
Guy de Maupassant
Herman Melville
Alice Munro
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery O’Connor
Dorothy Parker
Edgar Allan Poe
Katherine Anne Porter
Saki
J. D. Salinger
George Saunders
James Thurber
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Hisaye Yamamoto
Places/People
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African and South African
American
American South
Asian
Australian
British
French
German
Indian
Irish
Latin American
New York
Russian
Analysis
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A & P
Bread
The Cask of Amontillado
Cemetery Path
Charles
The Chaser
Condensed Milk
The Continuity of Parks
Dead Men’s Path
The Egg
Everyday Use
Everything Stuck to Him
The Falling Girl
The Father
The Flowers
Girl
An Hour with Abuelo
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried
King of the Bingo Game
The Landlady
The Lesson
Marigolds
Miss Brill
Morning Rain
The Moustache
Names/Nombres
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
One of These Days
The Open Window
A Rose for Emily
Rules of the Game
Say Yes
She Unnames Them
The Scholarship Jacket
The Sniper
Sticks
The Stolen Party
The Story of an Hour
Sunday in the Park
Thank You Ma’am
To Build a Fire
The Treasure of Lemon Brown
The Use of Force
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Collection/Anthology
Menu Toggle
Collections & Anthologies
Collections and Anthologies for Middle School
Norton Anthologies
Short Stories: Characters in Conflict by John Warriner
The “Guys Read” Series
Books for Elementary and Middle School Students
Review of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
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