In a short story, every word counts. Be sure you know them all with 12 new lists based on some of the greats you're sure to see in English literature classes and exams.
- Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
- Ambrose Bierce's "A Horseman in the Sky"
- Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
- Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
- Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
- Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
- Mark Twain's "A Story Without an End"
- Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"