example short stories
- Flannery O'Conner, 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'
- Joyce Carol Oates, 'Heat'; 'The situations'
- Edgar Alan Poe, 'The Tell Tale Heart'
- Raymond Carver, 'The Father'; 'Why, Honey?'
- Frank O'Connor 'My Oedipus Complex'
- Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour'
- Alice Walker, 'Flowers'