“The Joy of Nelly Deane,” Willa Cather

“An Encounter with an Interviewer,” Mark Twain

“The Wickedest Woman in Larchmont,” S. J. Perelman

“The Lover and the Tell-Tale,” Stephen Crane

“It’s an Honor,” Jimmy Breslin

“Love in the Night,” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Secret Paragraphs about My Brother,” Adrienne Kennedy

“Holding Up a Train,” O. Henry

“The Rockpile,” James Baldwin

“An Army with Banners,” James Weldon Johnson

“In Another Country,” Ernest Hemingway

“The Duel: ‘Once more Adieu,’” Alexander Hamilton

“Soldiers and Ghosts,” Ambrose Bierce

“The Adventure of the Popkins Family,” Washington Irving

“Suggestions to Detective Story Writers,” Dashiell Hammett

“Magic,” Katherine Anne Porter