For undergraduate courses on The Short Story; Introduction to Fiction; and/or Introduction to Literature that use genre-specific books. Message: Short Fiction is a diverse collection of stories, arranged alphabetically, that encourages students to examine short stories from a variety of critical perspectives and from their knowledge of narrative films. Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary is a diverse collection of stories, arranged alphabetically, that span multiple genres of short fiction including myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, fantasy, and folktale.