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    • Blackmail
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    • Cliffhangers
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    • College Students
    • Deep
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    • Experimental
    • Farms
    • First Person
    • Flashbacks
    • Flying
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    • Gambling
    • Gangsters
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    • Good vs Evil
    • Great Depression
    • Guilt
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    • Hope/Disappointment
    • Horses
    • Independence
    • Kidnapping
    • Lawyers
    • Light and Darkness
    • Linked
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    • Memory
    • Metaphors and Similes
    • Mind Blowing
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    • Movies/Adapted to Film
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    • Noir
    • Nostalgia
    • Ocean
    • Open Ended
    • Postmodern
    • Powerful
    • Rain
    • Realistic
    • Redemption
    • Satirical
    • School
    • Second Person
    • Serial Killers
    • Slavery
    • Social Issues
    • Southern Gothic
    • Spies
    • Stalker
    • Suicide
    • Symbolism
    • Technology
    • Terrorism
    • Theme
    • Third Person
    • Thriller
    • Twist Endings
    • Unreliable Narrators
    • Very Short
    • Victorian
    • Western
    • Wilderness
    • Writing
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy
    • Afrofuturism
    • Age Regression
    • Alien Invasion
    • Aliens/Monsters
    • Cosmic Horror
    • Cryonics
    • Dinosaurs/Dragons
    • Dystopian
    • Fairy Tales for Adults
    • Fountain of Youth
    • Future
    • Genetic Engineering
    • Mad Scientists
    • Mars
    • Moon
    • Mutants
    • Mythology
    • Parallel Universes
    • Sci Fi Horror
    • Space Opera
    • Star Trek
    • Subterranean
    • Superhero
    • Telepathy
    • Teleportation
    • Time Travel
    • Twilight Zone
    • Video Games/Virtual
    • YA
    • Zombies
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    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Jeffrey Archer
    • Isaac Asimov
    • Margaret Atwood
    • James Baldwin
    • Honoré de Balzac
    • Toni Cade Bambara
    • Samuel Beckett
    • Ambrose Bierce
    • Heinrich Böll
    • Jorge Luis Borges
    • Paul Bowles
    • T. C. Boyle
    • Ray Bradbury
    • Octavia E. Butler
    • Dino Buzzati
    • Willa Cather
    • Raymond Carver
    • John Cheever
    • Anton Chekhov
    • Ted Chiang
    • Agatha Christie
    • John Collier
    • Joseph Conrad
    • Jeffery Deaver
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    • Susan Glaspell
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Shirley Jackson
    • James Joyce
    • Jamaica Kincaid
    • Stephen King
    • Catherine Lim
    • Ken Liu
    • Jack London
    • Norman Mailer
    • Bernard Malamud
    • Richard Matheson
    • Carson McCullers
    • Herman Melville
    • Joyce Carol Oates
    • Dorothy Parker
    • Luigi Pirandello
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Katherine Anne Porter
    • Horacio Quiroga
    • J. D. Salinger
    • Irwin Shaw
    • James Thurber
    • Leo Tolstoy
    • Mark Twain
    • Kurt Vonnegut
    • Alice Walker
    • Eudora Welty
    • Virginia Woolf
    • Hisaye Yamamoto
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  • Sherwood Anderson
  • Jeffrey Archer
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Margaret Atwood
  • James Baldwin
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Heinrich Böll
  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Paul Bowles
  • T. C. Boyle
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Octavia Butler
  • Dino Buzzati
  • Raymond Carver
  • Willa Cather
  • John Cheever
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Ted Chiang
  • Lee Child
  • Kate Chopin
  • Agatha Christie
  • John Collier
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Roald Dahl
  • Jeffery Deaver
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • William Faulkner
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Susan Glaspell
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • O. Henry
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Shirley Jackson
  • James Joyce
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • Stephen King
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Doris Lessing
  • Catherine Lim
  • Ken Liu
  • Jack London
  • Norman Mailer
  • Bernard Malamud
  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Richard Matheson
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Carson McCullers
  • Herman Melville
  • Alice Munro
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Flannery O’Connor
  • Dorothy Parker
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Katherine Anne Porter
  • Saki
  • J. D. Salinger
  • George Saunders
  • Irwin Shaw
  • James Thurber
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Mark Twain
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Alice Walker
  • Eudora Welty
  • Edith Wharton
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Hisaye Yamamoto

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