Tales with a Tiger in the house / Ruskin Bond --Rolls for the Czar / Robin Kinkead -- Bedtime story / Pinckney Benedict --Astrologer's day / R.K. Narayan --Colomber / Dino Buzzati --Turning Three wise Un Cuento De Navidad-Christmas story / Sandra Cisneros --Trout / Sean O'Faolain --No-guitar blues / Gary Soto --I confess / Wei Wenjuan --War / Luigi Pirandello --Heart of the Home / Gwendolyn Brooks --Success story / James Gould Cozzens --Man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --Bracelet / Yoshido Uchida -- Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston --Dinner party / Mona Gardner --Stolen day / Sherwood Anderson --Who's there? / Arthur C. Clarke --Interlopers / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Gentleman of Rio En Medio / Juan A.A. Sedillo --Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes --All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan --Rifles of the regiment / Eric Knight --Charles / Shirley Jackson -- All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury --Sniper / Liam O'Flaherty --Too soon a woman / Dorothy M. Johnson --Wild duck's nest / Michael McLaverty --La Puerta / Jose Antonio Buciaga --Point of Day's wait / Ernest Hemingway --Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer --What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen --Piece of yarn / Guy de Maupassant --Lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- Circuit / Francisco Jimenez --Secret for two / Quentin Reynolds --Princess and the tin box / James Thurber --Top of the food chain / T. Coraghessan Boyle --Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez -- Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Anderson --Nincompoop / Anton Chekhov --Ambush / Tim O'Brien --Game of catch / Richard Wilbur --Return / Ngugi wa Thiong'o --Total Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --August heat / William Fryer Harvey --Luck / Mark Twain --Gift of the magi / O. Henry --Half a day / Naguib Mahfouz.