Small Avalanches and Other Stories

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Small Avalanches and Other Stories is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It was her second young adult book and, as of January 2007, her only collection of short stories for young adults. It was published in 2003 by HarperTempest, an imprint of HarperCollins.^[1]

Stories

The collection includes a mix of previously published and new stories. The following stories appear:

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
The Sky Blue Ball
Small Avalanches
Haunted
Bad Girls
How I Contemplated the World...
Shot
Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time
Life After High School
Capricorn
The Visit
The Model

References

↑ Silvey, Anita (2006). 500 Great Books for Teens . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-618-61296-3.

v t e Works by Joyce Carol Oates
Short fiction
The Wonderland Quartet	A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Expensive People (1968) Them (1969) Wonderland (1971)
The Gothic Saga	Bellefleur (1980) A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) My Heart Laid Bare (1998) The Accursed (2013)
Other novels	With Shuddering Fall (1964) Do With Me What You Will (1973) The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975) Childwold (1976) Son of the Morning (1978) Cybele (1979) Unholy Loves (1979) Angel of Light (1981) Solstice (1984) Marya: A Life (1986) You Must Remember This (1987) American Appetites (1989) Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990) Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) What I Lived For (1994) Zombie (1995) We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) Man Crazy (1997) Broke Heart Blues (1999) Blonde (2000) Middle Age: A Romance (2001) I'll Take You There (2002) The Tattooed Girl (2003) The Falls (2004) Missing Mom (2005) Black Girl / White Girl (2006) The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) My Sister, My Love (2008) Little Bird of Heaven (2009) Mudwoman (2012) The Sacrifice (2015) Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020) Breathe (2021) Babysitter (2022) 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (2023) Butcher: A Novel (2024) Fox (2025)
Novellas	Black Water (1992) First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996) Beasts (2001) The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005) A Fair Maiden (2010) Cardiff, by the Sea (2020)
Short story collections	By the North Gate (1963) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Marriages and Infidelities (1972) The Goddess and Other Women (1974) The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) Crossing the Border (1976) Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) A Sentimental Education (1980) Last Days: Stories (1984) Raven's Wing (1986) The Assignation (1988) Heat and Other Stories (1991) Where Is Here? (1992) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) Demon and Other Tales (1996) I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 (2006) The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007) Wild Nights! (2008) Dear Husband (2009) The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) Night-Gaunts (2018) The (Other) You (2021) Night, Neon (2021) Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024)
Short stories	"Sweet Love Remembered" (1960) "A Legacy" (1961) "The Fine White Mist of Winter" (1962) "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1963) "Pastoral Blood" (1963) "Stigmata" (1963) "Upon the Sweeping Flood" (1963) "First Views of the Enemy" (1964) "The Survival of Childhood" (1964) "Archways" (1965) "Norman and the Killer" (1965) "In the Region of Ice" (1966) "In the Warehouse" (1967) "The Voyage to Rosewood" (1967) "Accomplished Desires" (1968) "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" (1969) "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters" (1969) "Bodies" (1970) "I Was in Love" (1970) "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" (1970) "The Dead" (1971) "The Metamorphosis" (1971) "Blindfold" (1972) "The Lady With the Pet Dog" (1972) "Nightmusic" (1972) "Small Avalanches" (1972) "The Girl" (1974) "The Goddess" (1974) "Magna Mater" (1974) "The Sacrifice" (1975) "Daisy" (1977) "Night-Side" (1977) "A Theory of Knowledge" (1977) "The Translation" (1977) "Funland" (1983)
Young adult fiction	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) Freaky Green Eyes (2003) Sexy (2005) After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)

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