Impact : Fifty Short Stories

Introduction Appointment in Samarra xi W. Somerset Maugham TALES WITH A TWIST A Tiger in the House 1(8) Ruskin Bond Rolls for the Czar 9(5) Robin Kinkead The Panther 14(6) Pinckney Benedict An Astrologer's Day 20(8) R. K. Narayan The Colomber 28(11) Dino Buzzati TURNING POINTS Three Wise Guys 39(9) Un Cuento De Navidad/A Christmas Story Sandra Cisneros The Trout 48(6) Sean O'Faolain The No-Guitar Blues 54(10) Gary Soto I Confess... 64(6) Wei Wenjuan War 70(7) Luigi Pirandello THE HEART OF THE MATTER Home 77(6) Gwendolyn Brooks Success Story 83(9) James Gould Cozzens The Man to Send Rainclouds 92(9) Leslie Marmon Silko Dead Men's Path 101(7) Chinua Achebe The Bracelet 108(9) Yoshiko Uchida PLOT The Revolt of the Evil Fairies 117(9) Ted Poston The Dinner Party 126(6) Mona Gardner Stolen Day 132(7) Sherwood Anderson Who's There? 139(9) Arthur C. Clarke The Interlopers 148(11) Saki (H. H. Munro) CHARACTER Gentleman of Rio en Medio 159(7) Juan A. A. Sedillo Thank You, M'am 166(7) Langston Hughes All the Years of her Life 173(12) Morley Callaghan The Rifles of the Regiment 185(9) Eric Knight Charles 194(9) Shirley Jackson SETTING All Summer in a Day 203(10) Ray Bradbury The Sniper 213(8) Liam O'Flaherty Too Soon A Woman 221(9) Dorothy M. Johnson The Wild Duck's Nest 230(10) Michael McLaverty La Puerta 240(9) Jose Antonio Burciaga POINT OF VIEW A Day's Wait 249(7) Ernest Hemingway Zlateh the Goat 256(9) Isaac Bashevis Singer What Happened During the Ice Storm 265(5) Jim Heynen The Piece of Yarn 270(10) Guy de Maupassant The Lady, Or the Tiger? 280(11) Frank R. Stockton TONE The Circuit 291(9) Francisco Jimenez A Secret For Two 300(7) Quentin Reynolds The Princess and the Tin Box 307(7) James Thurber Top of the Food Chain 314(11) T. Coraghessan Boyle Just Lather, That's All 325(8) Hernando Tellez THEME The Emperor's New Clothes 333(9) Hans Christian Andersen A Nincompoop 342(6) Anton Chekhov Ambush 348(7) Tim O'Brien A Game of Catch 355(8) Richard Wilbur The Return 363(10) Ngugi wa Thiong'o TOTAL EFFECT The Tell-Tale Heart 373(12) Edgar Allan Poe August Heat 385(9) William Fryer Harvey Luck 394(9) Mark Twain The Gift of the Magi 403(10) O. Henry Half a Day 413(8) Naguib Mahfouz Glossary of Literary Terms 421(8) Glossary of Vocabulary 429(18) Index of Authors and Titles 447