Jerry Cavanaugh
You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself. (Rick Nelson)
Short Stories
This is a list of short stories that are often assigned in high school or middle school Language Arts classes and frequently anthologized in English textbooks. Students who do not wish to lug home their textbooks may click on the title and read the story online. In some cases, an audio version is supplied, so the student may listen to the story while reading it. In a couple of instances, an old radio program based on the short story is provided. The stories are listed alphabetically by the author's last name.
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Ambrose Bierce
An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge Audio
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G.K. Chesterton 
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Kate Chopin
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Richard Connell
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
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Charlie Fish
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Susan Glaspell 
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Bret Harte
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 
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O Henry 
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Washington Irving
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Shirley Jackson
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W.W. Jacobs
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James Joyce
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Rudyard Kipling
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Jack London 
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Katherine Mansfield 
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Guy de Maupassant
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Liam O'Flaherty
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Dorothy Parker
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Edgar Allan Poe 
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Carl Stephenson
Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants Radio_Program
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Frank R. Stockton
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Mark Twain
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Edith Wharton 
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