Chicago Literature Index — Short Stories

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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