Chopin, Kate

• "Désirée's Baby"
• "Emancipation: A Life Fable"
• "A Respectable Woman"
• "A Shameful Affair"
• "The Story of an Hour"

Eggers, Dave

• "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"
• "Another"
• "Notes For a Story Of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"
• "She Waits, Seething, Blooming"
• "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Solider Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• "Young Goodman Brown"

Jackson, Shirley

• "The Lottery"

Murakami, Haruki

• "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning"

Poe, Edgar Allen

• "The Black Cat"
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Salinger, J.D.

• "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
• "Down at the Dinghy"
• "For Esmé -- With Love and Squalor"
• "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
• "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
• "Teddy"
• "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"

Steinbeck, John

• "Junius Maltby"