The white silence / Jack London -- The luck of roaring camp / Bret Harte -- The corduroy pants / Erskine Caldwell -- The standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Of missing persons / Jack Finney -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- Dream deferred / Langston Hughes -- The rule of names / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- A dream within a dream / Edgar Allan Poe -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The letter / Emily Dickinson