• the scarlet ibis http://www.tnellen.com/westside/stories/ibis.html
• marigolds
• the diamond necklace http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/206/
• the monkey’s paw https://americanliterature.com/author/w-w-jacobs/short-story/the-monkeys-paw
• the open boat
• the minister’s black veil
• the most dangerous game
• a good man is hard to find
• Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm
• Thank You Ma'am
• the box social by james reaney.
• “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury https://www.juhsd.net/cms/lib/CA01902464/Centricity/Domain/256/2016_The%20Veldt.pdf
• Cat and the Coffee Drinkers by Harrison Bergeron

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/05/11/the-cat-and-the-coffee-drinkers

• https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
• “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury https://www.riversidelocalschools.com/Downloads/pedestrian%20short%20story.pdf
• “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco
• A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
• Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

http://jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html

• An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
• The Star by Arthur C. Clarke https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• the laughing man https://www.academia.edu/3105080/The_Laughing_man_by_J.D_Salinger
• and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/01/31/a-perfect-day-for-bananafish
• The City Ray Bradbury https://csuclc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/illustrated-man-by-ray-bradbury.pdf
• In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom by Ango Sakaguchi.
• For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny
• Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The Elevator by William Sleator