Contents

• Introduction by S. E. Gontarski
• Assumption
  Assumption (short story)
  "Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in Transition magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's Work in Progress....
  
   (1929)
• Sedendo et Quiescendo (1932)
• Text (1932)
• A Case in a Thousand (1934)
• First Love
  First Love (short story)
  "First Love" is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in 1973.The narrator tells of his discovery by a prostitute on a park bench , and the cruel, even revolting, sexual relationship that develops out of this.A stage version was performed by Ralph Fiennes at the...
  
   (1946)
• Stories and Texts for Nothing
  Stories and Texts for Nothing
  Stories and Texts for Nothing is a collection of stories by Samuel Beckett. It gathers three of Beckett's short stories and the thirteen short prose pieces he named "Texts for Nothing"...
  
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  • The Expelled (1946)
  • The Calmative (1946)
  • The End (1946)
  • Texts for Nothing (1950-1952)
• From an Abandoned Work
  From an Abandoned Work
  From An Abandoned Work, a “meditation for radio” by Samuel Beckett, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Third Programme on Saturday 14 December 1957 along with a selection from Molloy...
  
   (1954-1955)
• The Image (1956)
• All Strange Away (1963-1964)
• Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)
• Enough (1965)
• Ping
  Ping (short story)
  "Ping" is a short story written by Samuel Beckett written in French in 1966, and later translated into English by the author and published in 1967. The story was originally written as a segment of The Lost Ones...
  
   (1966)
• Lessness
  Lessness (short story)
  "Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as Sans in 1969 and later translated into English by the author. It was included in a book of short stories under the title Friendship launched to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the...
  
   (1969)
• The Lost Ones (1966,1970)
• Fizzles
  Fizzles
  Samuel Beckett used the word "fizzles" to describe eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.Most fizzles are unnamed, and identified by their numbers or first few words:* Fizzle 1 [He is barehead]* Fizzle 2 [Horn came always]* Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird...
  
   (1973-1975)
  • Fizzle 1 [He is barehead]
  • Fizzle 2 [Horn came always]
  • Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird
  • Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth]
  • Fizzle 5 [Closed place]
  • Fizzle 6 [Old earth]
  • Fizzle 7 Still
  • Fizzle 8 For to end yet again
• Heard in the Dark 1
• Heard in the Dark 2
• One Evening
• As the story was told (1973)
• Cliff (1975)
• neither
  Neither (short story)
  "neither" is a very short story by Samuel Beckett written in 1976 and originally published in the Journal of Beckett Studies No. 4...
  
   (1976)
• Stirrings Still
  Stirrings Still
  Stirrings Still is the final prose piece by Samuel Beckett. Written 1986-9 to give his American publisher, Barney Rosset, something to publish. First published in a signed limited edition, it was later republished in the posthumous edition As The Story Was Told...
  
   (1988)
• Appendix I: Variations on a "Still" Point
  • Sounds (1973)
  • Still 3 (1973)
• Appendix II: Faux Départs (1965)
• Appendix III: Nonfiction
  • The Capital of the Ruins
    The Capital of the Ruins
    "The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett written in 1946. Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital in St. Lô. The title of the piece derives from a booklet of photographs of the bombed-out city entitled St...
    
    (1946)
• Notes on the Texts
• Bibliography of Short Prose in English
• Illustrated Editions of Short Prose