Morning in the Burned House

by Margaret Atwood

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

An Astrologer's Day

by R. K. Narayan

Battle Royal

by Ralph Ellison

The Bet

by Anton Chekhov

By the Waters of Babylon

by Stephen Vincent Benét

Charles

by Shirley Jackson

The Chaser

by John Collier

Dead Men's Path

by Chinua Achebe

The Doll's House

by Katherine Mansfield