Lets start with the classic
Anton Chekhov - The Lady with the Dog (1903)
O. Henry - After Twenty Years (1906)
HH Munro - Open Window (1914)
Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like Elephants & Lighter Place (1927)
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find (1953) & Good Country People & The Train
Roald Dahl - Taste (1951) Lamb To The Slaughter (1953)
Joyce Carol Oates - Where Have You Been, Where Have You Been? (1966) - Oates dedicated the story to Bob Dylan
Stephen King - The Death (1981) & The Reach (1981)
Tim Winton - Neighbours (1985)
Raymond Carver - So Much Water So Close To Home (1989) - the story that inspired the movie Jindabyne
Margaret Atwood - Death by Landscape (1990); There Was Once (1992)
Annie Proulx - Skinned Steer (1997)
Millennium Short Stories
Katherine Vaz - Taking a Stitch in Deadman's Arm (2001) & The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden (2003)
Joshua Ferris - The Dinner Party (2008)
Lee Child - Guy Walks Into a Bar (2009) - includes the character Jack Reacher and published in The New York Times
Neil Gaiman - Bitter Grounds (2010)
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