Part 1 A life lesson. A day's wait/ Ernest Hemingway -- Thank you, ma'm/ Langston Hughes -- The corn planting/ Sherwood Anderson -- The Quickening/ Lisa Interollo -- Part 2 The unexpected twist. The last leaf/ O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -- The ambitious guest/ Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The lottery/ Shirley Jackson -- The one day war/ Judith Soloway -- Part 3 Irony. The third level/ Jack Finney -- All summer in a day/ Ray Bradbury -- Desiree's baby/ Kate Chopin -- Part 4 Family relationships. A visit to grandmother/ William Melvin Kelley -- Too soon a woman/ Dorothy M. Johnson -- My father sits in the dark/ Jerome Weidman -- Part 5 Meeting challenges. A rice sandwich/ Sandra Cisneros -- The circus/ William Saroyan -- The warriors/ Anna Lee Walters -- Talking to the dead/ Sylvia Watanabe.