Very Short Stories

Six-Word Memoirs

Josh Neufeld, Father Figures

Brendan Burford & Jim Campbell, Boris Rose, Prisoner of Jazz

Alice Elliot Dark, In the Gloaming

Terrence McNally, Andre’s Mother

Tobias Wolff, Mortals

Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain

Joseph Bruchac III, Ellis Island

Louis Erdich, The Red Convertible

Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem

Joy Harjo, White Bear

Joy Harjo, Call It Fear

Sherman Alexie, On the Amtrak from Boston to NYC

Sherman Alexie, Evolution

Sherman Alexie, Indian Education

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

Cathy Song, Heaven

Cathy Song, Chinatown

Cathy Song, The White Porch

Mary Yukrari Waters, Mirror Studies

W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa

Denise Levertov, What Were They Like & Zeroing In

David Henry Hwang, The Sound of a Voice

Amy Tan, Fish Cheeks

Amy Tan, Two Kinds

Alberto Rios, Advice to a First Cousin

Alberto Rios, Wet Camp

Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cloudy Day

Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans

Gwendolyn Brooks, Martin Luthar King, Jr.

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

Grace Paley, The Loudest Voice

Tom McAfee, This is My Living Room

David Mamet, Soul Murder

Stephen King, Last Rung on the Latter

Tracy Guzeman, Note to Self

Bob Dylan, Hurricane

Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory

James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues

Martin Espada, Bully

Aurora Levins Morales*, Child of the Americas

Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship

Amiri Baraka, Dutchman

Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

John Updike, A&P

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesmen

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof