The following list includes short stories that may be assigned during the semester.

"Marbles" by Jamaica Kincaid
"Stockings" by Tim O'Brien
"Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
"The Monkey Garden" by Sandra Cisneros
"Hiding" by Susan Minot
"The School" by Donald Barthelme
"The Flowers" by Alice Walker
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston
"1930" by Aurora Levins Morales
"Love Is a Fallacy" by Max Shulman
"Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff
"Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
"Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara
"The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor" by Sherman Alexie