Literature Online
Some Classic Stories Online
Borges, "The Secret Miracle."
Chekhov “The Lady with the Lapdog" "The Lady with the Lapdog"
Kate Chopin Desiree's Baby
Susan Glaspell “A Jury of her Peers”
W.W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw"
Guy de Maupassant ”The Necklace"
I.B. Singer, "The Brooch"
James Thurber " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Eudora Welty .”Why I Live at the P.O."
William Carlos Williams "The Use of Force" or here.
A Few Contemporary Stories and Other Prose Narratives
Kate Blakinger "Living in Reverse" (story)
Ashley Cowger "8 Stories I'll Never Tell"
Carol Emshwiller’s Chapter Two from The Mount (novel chapter)
Edith Konecky ”Cocktail Hour" (novel part)
Joan Newburger "Death and Taxes" (story)
Carole Rosenthal, "My Mother's Defense"s (selection from Close Finishes, a memoir).
Matt Schweiger A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME" (story)
Diane Simmons' "Ticket" (story)
Meredith Sue Willis "1969" and "Evenings with Dotson" (Two stories that began with the same material)
Long Stories and Selections from Older Novels
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
Dickens Opening of Bleak House
George Eliot’s description of Hall Farm in Adam Bede http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/bede/bede_06.html .
Henry James, opening of Portrait of a Lady
James Joyce “The Dead”
Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" (long story)
Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”
More Contemporary Fiction to try:
Krishan Coupland "The Keeper"
Joyce A. Griffin "Michael Ryan"
Tai Dong Hua "Pencils"
Daniel Hudon "Whale Migration"
Miriam N. Kotzin "Stone"
Aryn Kyle "Nine"
Charles Kaufmann "She"
Maile Meloy "Liliana"
Jen Michalski "Killing Rabbits"
Kay Sexton "Starving Makes It Fat"
Charles Rammelkamp "The Dead Know Nothing,".
Kathryn Shaver "The Armoire"
Grant Tracey "Color of Sky"
Joyce Yarrow "Tracks in the Snow"
Poetry Online
Charles Bukowski "So You Want to Be a Writer"
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