1000 Short Stories

Note: Below is a numbered list of unique short stories from the provided raw list, with hyperlinks to free online texts where available. Some stories are under copyright or lack identifiable free texts, as noted.

1. A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
2. Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
3. 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
4. A Circle in the Fire by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright; check local libraries)
5. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
6. A Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen Crane
7. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
8. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Novel, not a short story; no free text available due to copyright)
9. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
10. A Late Encounter with the Enemy by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
11. A Little Cloud by James Joyce
12. A Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane
13. A Painful Case by James Joyce
14. A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger (Not available for free online due to copyright)
15. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
16. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
17. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri (Not available for free online due to copyright)
18. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
19. A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty
20. A Weary Man’s Utopia by Jorge Luis Borges (Not available for free online; check collections like Ficciones)
21. A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
22. Abraham by Kay Boyle (No free text found; check library collections)
23. After the Race by James Joyce
24. An Encounter by James Joyce
25. An Episode of War by Stephen Crane
26. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
27. And the Rock Cried Out by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check The Martian Chronicles)
28. Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud (Not available for free online due to copyright)
29. Araby by James Joyce
30. Averroes’ Search by Jorge Luis Borges
31. Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami (Not available for free online due to copyright; distinct from Faulkner’s story)
32. Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
33. Beware of the Dog by Roald Dahl
34. Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway
35. Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami (Not available for free online due to copyright)
36. Bloodknot by Athol Fugard (No free text found; check play collections)
37. Blue Tigers by Jorge Luis Borges (Not available for free online; check Book of Sand)
38. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Not available for free online due to copyright)
39. Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
40. By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
41. Careful by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
42. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
43. Charles by Shirley Jackson
44. Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
45. Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden by E.L. Doctorow (Not available for free online due to copyright)
46. Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
47. Clay by James Joyce
48. Clytie by Eudora Welty (Not available for free online due to copyright)
49. Continuity of Parks by Julio Cortázar (No free text found; check Blow-Up and Other Stories)
50. Counterparts by James Joyce
51. Court in the West Eighties by Carson McCullers (No free text found; check collections)
52. Cross Country Snow by Ernest Hemingway
53. Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges
54. Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez (Not available for free online due to copyright)
55. Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty (Not available for free online due to copyright)
56. Delia Elena San Marco by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check A Universal History of Infamy)
57. Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin
58. Deutsches Requiem by Jorge Luis Borges
59. Distance by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
60. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
61. Dry September by William Faulkner
62. Emma Zunz by Jorge Luis Borges
63. Eveline by James Joyce
64. Everyday Use by Alice Walker
65. Everything Stuck to Him by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
66. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
67. Fat by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
68. Fever by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
69. For Esmé – with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger (Not available for free online due to copyright)
70. Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
71. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
72. Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor
73. Good Old Neon by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
74. Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
75. Greasy Lake by T.C. Boyle
76. Haircut by Ring Lardner
77. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
78. Here and There by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
79. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
80. How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore (Not available for free online due to copyright)
81. I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury
82. In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
83. In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel (Not available for free online due to copyright)
84. Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
85. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Not available for free online due to copyright)
86. Intimacy by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
87. Ivy Day in the Committee Room by James Joyce
88. Jack-in-the-Box by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Dark Carnival)
89. Judgement Day by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
90. Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden by Eudora Welty
91. Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
92. Landscape with Flatiron by Haruki Murakami (Not available for free online due to copyright)
93. Life Being the Best by Kay Boyle (No free text found; check collections)
94. Like Mother Used to Make by Shirley Jackson
95. Like That by Carson McCullers (No free text found; check collections)
96. Little Expressionless Animals by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
97. Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
98. Lyndon by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
99. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
100. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot by Ernest Hemingway
101. Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
102. My Oedipus Complex by Frank O’Connor
103. My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway
104. Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway
105. One of These Days by Gabriel García Márquez
106. One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts by Shirley Jackson
107. Out of Season by Ernest Hemingway
108. Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check Labyrinths)
109. Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
110. Parker’s Back by Flannery O’Connor
111. Paul’s Case by Willa Cather
112. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
113. Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver
114. Powerhouse by Eudora Welty
115. Put Yourself in My Shoes by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
116. Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
117. Revelation by Flannery O’Connor
118. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
119. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
120. Runaway by Alice Munro (Not available for free online due to copyright)
121. Say Yes by Tobias Wolff
122. Seven Types of Ambiguity by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
123. Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges (Not available for free online; check Collected Fictions)
124. Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken
125. Sixty Acres by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
126. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
127. The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
128. The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne
129. The April Witch by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check October Country)
130. The Babylon Lottery by Jorge Luis Borges
131. The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro (Not available for free online due to copyright)
132. The Beautiful Stranger by Shirley Jackson
133. The Beryl Coronet by Arthur Conan Doyle
134. The Bet by Anton Chekhov
135. The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
136. The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
137. The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton
138. The Boarding House by James Joyce
139. The Bribe by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check A Universal History of Infamy)
140. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
141. The Cabin by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
142. The Cane in the Corridor by James Thurber (No free text found; check collections)
143. The Captive by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check A Universal History of Infamy)
144. The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
145. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
146. The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
147. The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges
148. The Comforts of Home by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
149. The Courting of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling
150. The Creeping Man by Arthur Conan Doyle
151. The Crop by Flannery O’Connor (No free text found; check collections)
152. The Crowd by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Dark Carnival)
153. The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
154. The Darling by Anton Chekhov
155. The Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine Mansfield
156. The Dead by James Joyce
157. The Depressed Person by David Foster Wallace (Not available for free online due to copyright)
158. The Destructors by Graham Greene
159. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
160. The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
161. The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife by Ernest Hemingway
162. The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield
163. The Dragon by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check A Medicine for Melancholy)
164. The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check R Is for Rocket)
165. The End by Jorge Luis Borges
166. The Enduring Chill by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
167. The Father by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
168. The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle
169. The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain
170. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Not available for free online due to copyright)
171. The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Golden Apples of the Sun)
172. The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Golden Apples of the Sun)
173. The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Long After Midnight)
174. The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
175. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
176. The Geranium by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
177. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
178. The Gloria Scott by Arthur Conan Doyle
179. The Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber (No free text found; check collections)
180. The Greek Interpreter by Arthur Conan Doyle
181. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
182. The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
183. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (Frame story; no single free text; check individual stories)
184. The Immortal by Jorge Luis Borges
185. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter
186. The Jockey by Carson McCullers (Not available for free online due to copyright)
187. The Key by Eudora Welty
188. The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
189. The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
190. The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
191. The Lame Shall Enter First by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
192. The Landlady by Roald Dahl
193. The Last Leaf by O. Henry
194. The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
195. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
196. The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Connor
197. The Light of the World by Ernest Hemingway
198. The Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle
199. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
200. The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (Not available for free online due to copyright)
201. The Man in the Woods by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
202. The Man Who Lived Underground by Ralph Ellison (Not available for free online due to copyright)
203. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
204. The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle
205. The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
206. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
207. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
208. The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
209. The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
210. The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
211. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
212. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
213. The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates by Stephen King (Not available for free online due to copyright)
214. The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber
215. The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
216. The Omen by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
217. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
218. The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
219. The Other Death by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check The Aleph)
220. The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
221. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
222. The Partridge Festival by Flannery O’Connor (Not available for free online due to copyright)
223. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
224. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
225. The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
226. The Prison by Bernard Malamud (Not available for free online due to copyright)
227. The Prussian Officer by D.H. Lawrence
228. The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
229. The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
230. The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde
231. The Renegade by Shirley Jackson
232. The Rich Brother by Tobias Wolff
233. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
234. The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
235. The Scythe by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check October Country)
236. The Sea Change by Ernest Hemingway
237. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
238. The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges
239. The Seed of McCoy by Octavia Butler (No free text found; possible error, as this is by Jack London)
240. The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
241. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
242. The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check Dark Carnival)
243. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
244. The South by Jorge Luis Borges
245. The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle
246. The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde
247. The Storm by Kate Chopin
248. The Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London
249. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
250. The Student’s Wife by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
251. The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
252. The Swimmer by John Cheever
253. The Tall Tale of the Willy Nilly by Eudora Welty (No free text found; check collections)
254. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
255. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by Jorge Luis Borges
256. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (Not available for free online due to copyright)
257. The Tooth by Shirley Jackson
258. The Trees by Conrad Aiken (No free text found; check collections)
259. The Turkey by Flannery O’Connor (No free text found; check collections)
260. The Underground Woman by Anne Cameron (No free text found; check collections)
261. The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber
262. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
263. The Villagers by Shirley Jackson (No free text found; check collections)
264. The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield
265. The Whistle by Eudora Welty
266. The Wide Net by Eudora Welty
267. The Wilderness by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check The Martian Chronicles)
268. The Wind by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check October Country)
269. The Witch by Shirley Jackson
270. The Writing of the God by Jorge Luis Borges
271. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
272. The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges
273. There Was an Old Woman by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check October Country)
274. Three Versions of Judas by Jorge Luis Borges
275. Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill (Not available for free online due to copyright)
276. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
277. To Build a Fire by Jack London
278. To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker (Not available for free online due to copyright)
279. Touched with Fire by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check collections)
280. Trial by Combat by Shirley Jackson
281. Tuesday Siesta by Gabriel García Márquez
282. Uncle Einar by Ray Bradbury (No free text found; check October Country)
283. Untitled Story by Carson McCullers (No free text found; ambiguous title)
284. Up in Michigan by Ernest Hemingway
285. Vandals by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
286. Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov
287. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
288. Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
289. Who Am I This Time? by Kurt Vonnegut (No free text found; check Welcome to the Monkey House)
290. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
291. Window Shopping by Adrienne Kennedy (No free text found; check play collections)
292. Wunderkind by Carson McCullers
293. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
294. A & P by John Updike
295. A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo
296. A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
297. A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac
298. Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges
299. Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
300. Chickamauga by Thomas Wolfe (No free text found; distinct from Bierce’s story)
301. Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe
302. Died and Gone to Vegas by Tim Gautreaux (Not available for free online due to copyright)
303. Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
304. Dubliners by James Joyce (Collection; see individual stories like Araby)
305. Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace (Collection; not available for free due to copyright)
306. How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
307. How to Date a Brown Girl by Junot Díaz (Not available for free online due to copyright)
308. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen
309. I Want to Live! by Thom Jones (Not available for free online due to copyright)
310. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Collection; no single free text; check individual stories)
311. Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (Not available for free online due to copyright)
312. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
313. Meneseteung by Alice Munro (Not available for free online due to copyright)
314. My Red Cap by Louisa M. Alcott (No free text found; check collections)
315. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (Collection; not available for free due to copyright)
316. Present at a Hanging by Ambrose Bierce
317. Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood (Not available for free online due to copyright)
318. Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway
319. That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
320. The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
321. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
322. The Capital of the World by Ernest Hemingway
323. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
324. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
325. The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant
326. The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc by Jules Verne
327. The Real Thing by Henry James
328. The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
329. The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin by Tennessee Williams (No free text found; check collections)
330. The Russian Prisoner by Ha Jin (Not available for free online due to copyright)
331. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
332. The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton
333. The Lady and the Tiger by Ray Bradbury (Possible error; likely The Lady, or the Tiger? by Stockton)
334. The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells
335. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
336. The Night Face-Up by Julio Cortázar (No free text found; check Blow-Up and Other Stories)
337. The Other Side of the Hedge by E.M. Forster
338. The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson
339. The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
340. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
341. The Door by E.B. White (No free text found; check collections)
342. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
343. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
344. Why Don’t You Dance by Raymond Carver
345. Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty
346. Ysrael by Junot Díaz (Not available for free online due to copyright)
347. A Beautiful Talisman by Obotunde Ijimere (No free text found; limited availability)
348. A Country Road. A Tree. by James Joyce
349. A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield
350. A Doctor’s Visit by Anton Chekhov
351. A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain
352. A Domestic Dilemma by Carson McCullers (Not available for free online due to copyright)
353. A History of Eternity by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check Collected Fictions)
354. A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
355. A Justice by William Faulkner (No free text found; check collections)
356. A Memory by Eudora Welty (Not available for free online due to copyright)
357. A Natural History of the Dead by Ernest Hemingway
358. A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle
359. A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver
360. A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud by Carson McCullers
361. A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway
362. A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
363. A Way You’ll Never Be by Ernest Hemingway
364. Abenjacán el Bojarí, Dead in His Labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check The Aleph)
365. About Love by Anton Chekhov
366. Across the Bridge by Graham Greene
367. Ad Astra by William Faulkner (No free text found; check collections)
368. After Twenty Years by O. Henry
369. After You, My Dear Alphonse by Shirley Jackson
370. Akueke by Chinua Achebe (No free text found; check collections)
371. All Souls by Jhumpa Lahiri (Not available for free online due to copyright)
372. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
373. All That You Love Will Be Carried Away by Stephen King (Not available for free online due to copyright)
374. Almos’ a Man by Richard Wright (Not available for free online due to copyright)
375. Alone by Isaac Bashevis Singer (No free text found; check collections)
376. An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov
377. An Educated American Woman by John Cheever (Not available for free online due to copyright)
378. An Experiment in Misery by Stephen Crane
379. An Ideal Family by Katherine Mansfield
380. An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf (No free text found; check collections)
381. Are These Actual Miles? by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
382. Art and Mr. Mahoney by Carson McCullers (No free text found; check collections)
383. Asphodel by Eudora Welty (No free text found; check collections)
384. At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield
385. August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
386. Aurora by Junot Díaz (Not available for free online due to copyright)
387. Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon by Gabriel García Márquez
388. Barn Burning by William Faulkner
389. Belfast Woman by Mary Beckett (No free text found; check collections)
390. Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald
391. Beyond by William Faulkner (No free text found; check collections)
392. Biathanatos by Jorge Luis Borges (No free text found; check Collected Fictions)
393. Black Peter by Arthur Conan Doyle
394. Blackbird Pie by Raymond Carver (Not available for free online due to copyright)
395. Blackness by Jamaica Kincaid (Not available for free online due to copyright)
396. Bliss by Katherine Mansfield