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| 1. |
Buttered Side Down |
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber link |
1912 | FSS |
| 2. |
Prevailing Winds |
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Margaret Ayer Barnes link |
1928 | FSS |
| 3. |
Goodbye, Columbus Roth wrote these stories in Hyde Park. |
Phillip Roth
Phillip Roth link |
1959 | SS |
| 4. |
The Beach Umbrella |
Cyrus Colter
Cyrus Colter link |
1970 | FSS |
| 5. |
Blue in Chicago |
Bette Howland
Bette Howland link |
1978 | FSS |
| 6. |
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek link |
1980 | FSS |
| 7. |
“Hot Ice” This story involves an urban legend of a neighborhood girl who drowned in the Douglas Park Lagoon; her father preserved her body in the Icehouse, which is on the neighborhood’s to-be-destroyed list. Manny, Eddie and Antek go to the boarded-up icehouse to rescue her. |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek link |
1984 | SS |
| 8. |
Frye Street & Environs |
Marita Bonner
Marita Bonner link |
1987 | FSS |
| 9. |
The Last Laugh and Other Stories |
Hugo Martínez-Serros
Hugo Martínez-Serros link |
1988 | FSS |
| 10. |
The Coast of Chicago |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek link |
1990 | FSS |
| 11. |
Barbie-Q A short story published in Women Hollering Creek. |
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros link |
1991 | SS |
| 12. |
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
1992 | NFSSMA |
| 13. |
Chicago Stories |
James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell link |
1998 | FSS |
| 14. |
The Question of Bruno |
Alexsandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon link |
2000 | FSS |
| 15. |
Collected Stories |
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow link |
2001 | FSS |
| 16. |
Esther Stories |
Peter Orner
Peter Orner link |
2001 | FSS |
| 17. |
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
2002 | NFSSCS |
| 18. |
Chicago Noir |
Neal Pollack (Ed.) | 2005 | FSS |
| 19. |
The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories |
Billy Lombardo
Billy Lombardo link |
2005 | FSS |
| 20. |
Mama’s Maxwell Street and Other Stories |
Bobette Zacharias | 2006 | SS |
| 21. |
Ghosts of Chicago |
John McNally
John McNally link |
2008 | FSS |
| 22. |
Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry |
Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed link |
2010 | FSS |
| 23. |
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories |
Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons link |
2010 | FSSPt |
| 24. |
The Roy Stories |
Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford link |
2013 | FSS |
| 25. |
On the Nine |
Tony Bowers
Tony Bowers link |
2015 | FSS |
| 26. |
On the Way |
Cyn Vargas
Cyn Vargas link |
2018 | FSS |
| 27. |
How to Walk on Water and Other Stories |
Rachel Swearingen
Rachel Swearingen link |
2020 | FSS |
| 28. |
Stateway’s Garden |
Jasmon Drain
Jasmon Drain link |
2021 | FSS |
| 29. |
The Only Living Girl in Chicago |
Mallory Smart
Mallory Smart link |
2021 | FSS |
| 30. |
“The Queen of the Aragon Ballroom” A short story published in Grand Journal on May 24, 2023. |
Dan Callahan | 2023 | SS |
| 31. |
Direct Sunlight |
Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed link |
2023 | FSS |