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|Title, Author, Year |Brief Overview |Reading Options |
|ALL SUMMER IN A DAY |Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated authors in |digital annotation |
|by Ray Bradbury |literary history. He is best known for his |Read aloud |
|1954 |novels Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and The | |
| |Martian Chronicles. He was also awarded the National | |
| |Medal of Arts in 2004. In this short story, children | |
| |living on the planet Venus are told that an exciting | |
| |event will happen soon. | |
|AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE |Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American |digital annotation |
|by Ambrose Bierce |journalist, satirist, and short story writer. The |Read aloud |
|1890 |following short story takes place during the Civil War,|pdf |
| |which was fought to determine the survival of the Union| |
| |(North) or the independence of the Confederacy (South).| |
| |A confederate sympathizer is hanged by Union soldiers. | |
| |Alvarez was born in New York but spent the first ten |digital annotation |
|DAUGHTER OF INVENTION |years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic until |Read aloud |
|by Julia Alvarez |her family had to flee the country due to her father’s | |
|1991 |involvement in a political rebellion. The following | |
| |story is from the novel How the García Girls Lost Their| |
| |Accents, which is about the lives of four sisters | |
| |spanning thirty years in both the United States and the| |
| |Dominican Republic. In this short story, Yolanda | |
| |struggles to write a speech for school. | |
|HOME |Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet, |digital annotation |
|by Gwendolyn Brooks |author, and teacher. In 1950, she was awarded the |Read aloud |
|1953 |Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, which made her the first |pdf |
| |African American woman to receive the honor. Her | |
| |writing often explores the experiences of ordinary | |
| |people and their communities. In this short story, a | |
| |family contemplates losing their house. | |
|LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER |Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British novelist, short |digital annotation |
|by Roald Dahl |story writer, and poet. Dahl’s books are known for |Read aloud |
|1953 |their unexpected endings and often darkly comic themes.|pdf |
| |In this short story, a woman is betrayed by her husband| |
| |and retaliates in an extreme way. | |
|LATHER AND NOTHING ELSE |Hernando Téllez (1908-1966) was a Columbian journalist |digital annotation |
|by Hernando Téllez |and author. In this short story, a barber gives a |Read aloud |
|2007 |military captain a shave. |pdf |
|MONTREAL 1962 |Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a Canadian-American|digital annotation |
|by Shauna Singh Baldwin |novelist of Indian descent. “Montreal 1962” is from her|Read aloud |
|2012 |book of short stories English Lessons and Other |pdf |
| |Stories. In this short story, a Sikh woman who has | |
| |recently come to Canada with her husband describes | |
| |washing his turbans. In the Sikh religion, men often | |
| |wear turbans and grow their hair long. | |
| | | |
|THE BET |Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian |digital annotation |
|by Anton Chekhov |playwright and short story writer who is considered to |Read aloud |
|1889 |be among the greatest writers of short fiction in |pdf |
| |history. This story begins when a lawyer and a banker | |
| |make a bet. | |
|THE LEAP |Louise Erdrich is an American author who writes novels,|digital annotation |
|by Louise Erdrich |poetry, and children’s books often featuring Native |Read aloud |
|2009 |American characters. In this short story, a narrator | |
| |describes their mother, a retired trapeze performer who| |
| |has gone blind. | |
|THE MAN IN THE WELL |Ira Sher is a contemporary author who writes short |digital annotation |
|by Ira Sher |fiction. In this chilling short story, a group of |Read aloud |
|1995 |children discovers a man trapped in a well. |pdf |
|THE NECKLACE |Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer known|digital annotation |
|by Guy de Maupassant |for his skillful craft of the short story. Maupassant’s|Read aloud |
|1884 |stories often reveal the truth about human nature |pdf |
| |through the events of everyday life. A woman’s dream of| |
| |wearing a diamond necklace leads to a series of events | |
| |that leave her in a life of poverty. | |
| | | |
|THE TELL-TALE HEART |Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet and |digital annotation |
|by Edgar Allan Poe |author who often wrote tales of horror that gave |Read aloud |
|1843 |insight into the human condition. “The Tell-Tale Heart”|pdf |
| |is a retelling of murder and madness, and it is | |
| |considered to be a classic of American literature. | |
|THE WAR OF THE WALL |Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) was an African American |digital annotation |
|by Toni Cade Bambara |author, film-maker, and social activist. In this short |Read aloud |
|1980 |story, a woman paints a wall that belongs to the kids |pdf |
| |of the neighborhood | |
|THE WHITE UMBRELLA |Gish Jen, born Lillian Jen, is an American writer and |digital annotation |
|by Gish Jen |speaker. Jen is a second generation Chinese American. |Read aloud |
|1984 |In this short story, a Chinese American girl sees a |pdf |
| |white umbrella that she longs to have. | |
|THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT |Terry Bisson is an American science fiction and fantasy|digital annotation |
|by Terry Bisson |author, and “They’re Made Out of Meat” is one of his |Read aloud |
|1990 |most famous short stories. In this story, two speakers |pdf |
| |are discussing whether or not they should welcome | |
| |foreign beings from another planet. | |
|Sticks |Saunders builds meaning out of nothing, slowly, it |pdf |
|By George Saunders |seems—although in a story this short there’s hardly | |
|1995 |room for slowness—and then rips it all away from you in| |
| |the end, leaving you gutted and empty, which is just | |
| |the sort of abject cruelty you really want from a | |
| |writer. | |
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