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Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings

Link: Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
  • Print: Fiction, Short Story
Atwood's story provides multiple endings based on a simple plot line: "John and Mary meet."
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    Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder

    Link: Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Bradybury's science fiction story begins in the year 2055.  The protagonist, via a time machine, pays to go on a guiding safari tour to hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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    William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

    Link: William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Faulkner's non-linear narrative initially recalls the funeral of Emily Grierson (attended by the entire town). 
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Link: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Fitzgerald's story was adapted to a major motion picture movie in 2008.  The story's main character, Benjamin, is born with the physical appearance and cognitive skills of a 70 yr old man.  Benjamin Button ages backwards (turns gradually younger) as the story progresses.
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    Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

    Link: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
    •  Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Jackson's text was originally published in an issue of the New Yorker in 1948.  The story takes place in a small town of 300 who have an annual ritual know as "the lottery."
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    Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place

    Link: Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Hemingway's text, first published in 1929, takes place in a cafe.  Waiters discuss the attempted suicide of an old man.
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    Jeff Landon, Clyde

    Link: Jeff Landon, Clyde
    • Print: Fiction, Flash Fiction
    Landon's text details a relationship between the narrator and a newspaper delivery person, as well as the terrible news that appears on the front page of the paper.
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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

    Link: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    In Maruqez's short story, village children find the body of a dead man wrapped in sea weed.  The town decides to throw the deceased person a funeral.  In the process, the characters begin to create an identity for the man.
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    Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace

    Link: Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    "The Necklace" tells the story of a woman who longs for a higher social status.
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    Vladmir Nabokov, Symbols and Signs

    Link: Vladmir Nabokov, Symbols and Signs
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    "Symbols and Signs," published in 1948, tells the story of an elderly couple who attempt to see their deranged son on his birthday.  He resides in a sanatorium.
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    Joyce Carol Oates, I.D.

    Link: Joyce Carol Oates, I.D.
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Oates' story follows the life of Lisette Mulvey.  She is a middle school student whose mother has been gone for close to week.
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    Flannery O'Conner, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Link: Flannery O'Conner, A Good Man is Hard to Find
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    O'Conner's text, originally published in 1953, details a family's trip to Florida.  The family runs into trouble during the ride.
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    Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

    Link: Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Poe's story involves a narrator seeking revenge on a friend whom he believes insulted him.
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    Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

    Link: Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Poe's story is a first person narrative from a man who attempts to rationalize his sanity after murdering an old man. 
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    John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums

    Link: John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
    Steinbeck's story shows the emotional dissatisfaction of a women trapped in a marriage.
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron

    • Print: Fiction, Short Story
     Vonnegut's science fiction text takes place in the year 2081.  In this society, all Americans are mandated to be equal: looks, intelligence, and etc.
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