Exploring Short Stories provides 22 short stories for middle  to senior secondary students (Volume 2) . The stories come from well known and highly regarded authors from around the world and represent a range of write styles and types of short story. The stories in each volume are grouped according to the feature of the short story genre they best represent.

Contents Volume 2

 Introduction

I. Some Narrative Techniques

Intertextuality

•  ‘Homecoming’ by Roger Woddis
•  ‘The Empty Beach’ by James R. Allen
•  ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen
•  ‘James Harris (The Dæmon Lover)’ Anonymous

Fictional autobiography

•  ‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford
•   ‘An Ounce of Cure’ by Alice Munro

Circularity

•  ‘Homework’ by Farrukh Dhondy

Unreliable narrators

•  ‘My Sister’s Marriage’ by Cynthia Marshall Rich
•   ‘Why I Live at the P.O.’ by Eudora Welty
•    ‘One’s a Heifer’ by Sinclair Ross

Indeterminacy

•  ‘The Summer People’ by Shirley Jackson

II. Ideologies, Discourses and the Positioning of the Reader

•   ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’ by Kathryn Clarke
•   ‘Kay Petman’s Coloured Pencils’ by Carmel Bird

III. Satire

•  ‘Attila’ by Karel Capek
•  ‘Spring in Poland’ by Slawomir Mrozek
•   ‘Sex in Australia from the Man’s Point of View’ by Michael Wilding

IV. Three Fables: Articulating the Themes

• ‘The Man at the Wall’ by John Morressy
• ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati
•  ‘Before the Law’ by Franz Kafka

V. Author Study: Sinclair Ross

• ‘The Lamp at Noon’ by Sinclair Ross
•  ‘The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross
•  ‘The Flowers That Killed Him’ by Sinclair Ross