“Suggestions to Detective Story Writers,” Dashiell Hammett

“Magic,” Katherine Anne Porter

“The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Henry James

“Kid’s Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn’t Die,” Ring Lardner

“Quoits,” Ursula K. Le Guin

“A Game of Vlet,” Joanna Russ

“The Final Struggle,” Frederick Douglass

“A Point at Issue!” Kate Chopin

“Insert Flap ‘A’ and Throw Away,” S. J. Perelman

“Atrophy,” Edith Wharton

“The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall,” Joan Didion

“The Sentimentality of William Tavener,” Willa Cather

“Cannibalism in the Cars,” Mark Twain

“The Purple Dress,” O. Henry

“Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” Stephen Crane

“Absolution,” F. Scott Fitzgerald