"Day of the Butterfly" by Alice Munro (Canada)
"The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand/England)
"The Third Bank of the River" by Joao Guimaraes Rosa (Brazil)
"No Dogs Bark" by Juan Rulfo (Mexico)
"The Secret Lion" by Alberto Alvaro Rios (United States)
"The Balek Scales" by Heinrich Boll (Germany)
"In the Ravine" by Anton Chekhov (Russia)
"Ward #6" by Anton Chekhov (Russia)
"Four Meetings" by Henry James (United States)
"Investigations of a Dog" by Franz Kafka (Czech Republic)
"The Book of Sand" by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
"Gryphon" by Charles Baxter (United States)
"Poor Fish" by Alberto Moravia (Italy)
"The Black Sheep" by Italo Calvino (Italy)
"The Last Judgment" by Karel Capek (Czech Republic)
"Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco (Romania/France)
"An Encounter" by James Joyce (Ireland)
"No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing (Rhodesia/England)
"The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" by Bessie Head (South Africa)
"Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
"Another Evening at the Club" by Alifa Rifaat (Egypt)
"The Happy Man" by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
"The Swimming Contest" by Benjamin Tammuz (Israel)
"Wanted: A Town without a Crazy"by Muzzaffer Izgu (Egypt)
"Saboteur" by Ha Jin (China)
"Tokyo" by Fumiko Hayashi (Japan)
"Swaddling Clothes"* by Yukio Mishima (Japan)
Note: Most of these wonderful stories can be found in an anthology entitled Reading the World: Contemporary Literature from Around the Globe. If you happen to be a teacher searching for new materials or are just someone who loves short stories (glad to know you're out there!), I would highly recommend this volume
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