| Term | Definition |
| Shirley Jackson | The Lottery |
| Herman Melville | Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown / The Birthmark |
| Henry James | The Real Thing |
| James Joyce | Araby / The Dead |
| Stephen Crane | The Open Boat |
| Charlotte Gilman | The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Kate Chop | The Storn / The Story of an Hour |
| James Baldwin | Sonny's Blues |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Babylon Revisited |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find / Revelation |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | The Man to Send Rain Clouds |
| Jack London | To Build A Fire |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Sweat |
| Ursula K. LeGuin | The One Who Walk Away From Omelas |
| William Faulkner | Barn Burning / A Rose for Emily |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Clean, Well-Lighted Place |
| John Updike | Separating |
| Katherine Mansfield | Miss Brill / The Garden-Party |
| Chinua Achebe | Dead Men's Path |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings |