SHORT STORIES 7
Unit 1

Elements of Fiction:
Plot, Characterization, Setting, Theme

Literary Devices:
Irony, Figurative Language, Symbol, Stereotype, Inference, Flashback

Cutie Pie by Nicholas Fisk, p3

The Widow and the Parrot by Virgnia Wolf, p13

Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambera, p23

One Night Stand by Louis L'Amour, p29

Gentleman of Rio en Medio by Juan A.A. Sedillo, p37

The Old Demon by Pearl S. Buck, p42

Stolen Day by Sherwood Anderson, p54

Rikki-tikki-tave by Rudyard Kipling, p60

The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, p73

The Fallen Angel by Evan Hunter, p80

The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey, p92

I'll Give You Law by Molly Picon, p105


Unit 5

President Cleveland Where are You? by Robert Cormier, p323

A Man Who Had No Eyes by Mac Kinley Kantor, p333

A Haircut by I.S. Nakata, p338

Nancy by Elizabeth Enright, p343

Adolf by D.H. Lawrence, p357

The Gift by Ray Bradbury, p365

The Hundredth Dove by Jane Yolen, p369

The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter by William Saroyan, p375

The Storyteller by H.H. Munro, p380

The Day the Sun Came Out by Dorothy M. Johnson, p386

Last Cover by Paul Annixter, p392

Key Item by Isaac Asimov, p401


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