Titles, Authors, Summary, CSP

Man sleeps though revolutionary war

Two women's husbands die (sailor and landsman - brothers) but actually they're alive, women find out during night

Man goes insane and kills his master, police comes, he confesses

Paper factory, women = paper, bachelors happy

Policy-makers are tuck in a snowbank on train and eat each other

Author meets a fan before his death, by the sea, Doctor Hugh, Dencombe

Woman has affair during storm, ends happily, Calixa, Alceé, Bobinot, Bibi, French names

Women's hysteria symptoms, first person, written like diary

Man is always confused with twin brother, who is famous music composer, visits small town in desert where old love lives, who was pianist and played with brother, whom she loved. She is dying, man gets brother to send letter.

Everett Hildegard, Katherine Gaylord, Adriance Hildegard

Priest tries to prove he is strong enough to resist temptation - Reverend Curtis Hartman, Kate Swift,

2 lazy men trapped in cabin in winter, run out of food, go crazy, kills each other, freezes to death. Weatherbee, Cuthfert

Sick baby, doctor, lying family, pimply girl,

Nurse supports alcoholic cartoonist, no identity of either character

Black slave woman is scared of husband, works for white children, is left alone. Nancy, Caddy, Quentin, Jason

Man sleeps with prostitute, drinks, later discovers he has baby.

Mister Clarence, Betsy

Boy buys gun, shoots mule, will have to work for life, runs away. Dave, mister Joe

Linguist Professor visits city, want to experience culture, follows "qaouaji" through city to the desert, walks down from cliff, and is attacked by tribe with dogs, trained to dance for tribe, is sold but refuses to dance for new owners, finally runs away and is almost shot by French soldier

black highschool boy gives speech, receives notoriety, is forced to participate in Battle Royal - fighting against other black youths, finally receives scholarship to state college, is happy but dreams later of his grandfather, who wanted him to keep fighting, and realizes that life sucks. First Person

Woman is stoned to death by community for tradition. Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves, Mrs.

Hutchinson

60yrold woman is graduating, wants her grandfather to be there who is a 104 yr old civil war vet, hopes he doesn't die because she wants the recognition of superiority he brings. He dies on stage, no one realizes. Sally Poker, the General, John Wesley

Man returns to hometown for eye appointment, see highschool love, is married already but still kinda loves her, gets note.Clyde, Janet

Jewish sergeant helps out jewish soldiers, but were they for real? Grossbart, Sergeant Marx, Mickey, Larry

Twins are murdered at the hands of a mentally insane man.

Rhea and Rhoda Kunkel, Roger Whipple. Narrated through 1st person, not main characters

A woman has an affair with a man to sell a car because her husband and her are in large amounts of credit card debt, husband goes crazy about it. Leo, Ernest Williams, Toni. Short sentences, Person and action.

Men out hunting, end up at farmhouse, shoot dog and accidentally shoot one of their hunting party. Get directions but leave them, take a wrong turn, not going to the hospital.

Kenny, Tub, Frank

List of all the things the soldiers carried. One man has a picture of his love, realizes the cares more about it than his comrades. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, Martha

Girl works in a kitchen with lots of old men, every night plays poker, and wins a dollar, men get angry with her, rape her, pig attacks men, tornado comes, takes men away, they are found in a freezer

Pool Table delivery man, Dominican, the girlfriend, Dan

Set up as how to, funny. Second Person

Religious, man trying to decide whether he loves his girlfriend, who's about to have an abortion, even though he's against the idea of abortion.

Lane Dean. Inner dialogue but third person

Two brothers in the civil war, act like they hate each other, argue, but actually want the other to live. Dan, Billie