American 24-Karat Gold

the long version

Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- Strong temptations-strategic movements-the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- Gifts of the magi / O. Henry -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- The wonderful old gentleman / Dorothy Parker -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- [Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- [Masque of the Red Death ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville.