List of Short Stories Used in CLTL

Dee Axelrod, River
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love
Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond's Run
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake (see Teaching Specific Texts: Greasy Lake)
Marta Brunet, Solitude of Blood
Karel Capek, The Last Judgement (see Teaching Specific Texts: Last Judgement)
Ray Carver, Cathedral
Ray Carver, So Much Water Close to Home
Ray Carver, Tell the Women We're Going
Ray Carver, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (see Teaching Specific Texts: What We Talk about When We Talk about Love)
Ray Carver, Where I'm Calling From
Willa Cather, Paul's Case (full text)
John Cheever, The Swimmer (see Teaching Specific Texts: The Swimmer and Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
John Cheever, The Five Forty-eight
Kate Chopin, The Storm (full text)
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour (full text)
EL Doctorow, Jolene: A Life (see Teaching Specific Texts: Jolene: A Life)
Roddy Doyle, Ask Me, Ask Me, Ask Me (see Teaching Specific Texts: Ask Me, Ask Me, Ask Me and Teaching Strategies: Inspiring Student Writing)
Andre Dubus, Giving Up the Gun
Louise Erdrich, The Shawl
William Faulkner, Barn Burning (full text)
Tim Gautreux, Little Frogs In A Ditch
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (full text)
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers (full text) (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Maxim Gorky, Notch (full text) (see Teaching Specific Texts: Notch)
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Langston Hughes, Last Whipping
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (full text)
Gish Jen, In the American Society
Neil Labute, Layover
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner (full text)
Ursula Leguin, The Wife's Story (see Teaching Specific Texts: The Wife's Story)
Doris Lessing, Woman on a Roof (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
William Henry Lewis, Shades
Luke, The Bible, The Parable of the Prodigal Son, Chapter 15: verses 11-32
Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party (full text)
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill (full text)
Alice Munro, Boys and Girls
Rita Marie Nibasa, A Line of Cutting Women (see Teaching Specific Texts: A Line of Cutting Women)
Thisbe Nissen, Grover, King of Nebraska
Joyce Carol Oates, Christmas Night, 1962
Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Child
Joyce Carol Oates, Politics
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Tim O'Brien, On the Rainy River
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Dorothy Parker, Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker, The Telephone Call (full text) (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado (full text)
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums (full text)
Michael Thompson, The Last Time I Seen My Father (see Teaching Strategies: Writing in CLTL)
Leo Tolstoy, Korney Vasiliev (see Teaching Specific Texts: Korney Vasiliev)
Leo Tolstoy, God Knows the Truth but Waits
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path (full text)
Tobias Wolff, Hunter in the Snow
Tobias Wolff, The Chain
Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother (see Teaching Specific Texts: The Rich Brother)