A chronological bibliography of Norman Mailer’s short fiction. Composition dates are shown in brackets; Unpublished stories will have just one date, and some of these compositions dates are speculative. Links are for Works and Days entries.
- Mailer, Norman (April 1941) [1940]. "The Greatest Thing in the World". The Harvard Advocate. pp. 3–6, 24–28.
- — (November–December 1941). "The Greatest Thing in the World". Story. Vol. 19. pp. 17–26.
- Mailer, Norman K. (1947). "The Greatest Thing in the World". In Hitchcock, Alfred. Hold Your Breath: Suspense Stories. New York: Dell.
- Mailer, Norman (1949). "The Greatest Thing in the World". Story: The Fiction of the Forties.
- — (1959). "The Greatest Thing in the World". Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnum. pp. 70–84.
- — (Fall 1941), "A Clean Well-Ordered Life", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–5.
- — (Fall 1941), "The Worms that Tear at Me", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–4.
- — (5 December 1941), "The Schedule Breaker", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–4.
- — (May 1942) [1941]. "Right Shoe on Left Foot". The Harvard Advocate. Vol. CXXVIII no. 5. pp. 12–18, 30–32.
- — (June 1942) [1941]. "Maybe Next Year". The Harvard Advocate. Vol. CXXVIII no. 6. pp. 25–27.
- — (1959). "Maybe Next Year". Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnum. pp. 84–88.
- — (8 February 1942), "Three Fingers of Friendship", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–5.
- — (18 February 1942), "Retreat", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–13.
- — (5 March 1942), "Charde and Dana", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–17.
- — (1 April 1942), "Land Lashed", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–10.
- — (3 April 1942), "Small Fry", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–3.
- — (May 1942), "Music Teachers I Have Known and Loved", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–3.
- — (17 July 1942), "The Lock", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–2. Experimental fragment.
- — (26 February 1943), "[Yiddish on the Train]", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–5.
- — (1943), "Tough Test", Unpublished, Harvard, pp. 1–4. Handwritten fragment.
- — (January–February 1945), "Nostalgia", Unpublished, Luzon, pp. 1–11.
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- — (1964) [December 1960]. "Truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel". Evergreen Review. pp. 68–74.
- — (December 1963) [1962]. "The Last Night". Esquire. pp. 180–181, 200–206.
- — (1966). "The Last Night". Cannibals and Christians. New York: Dell. pp. 380–397.
- — (1967). "The Last Night". The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer. New York: Dell. pp. 187–207.
- — (1982). "The Last Night". The Essential Mailer. Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library.
- — (2019). "The Last Night". The Mailer Review. 13: 10–26. Retrieved 2021-06-12. With an introduction by J. Michael Lennon.
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- — (2012) [ca. 1951]. "The Blood of the Blunt". The Mailer Review. 6 (1): 11–27.
- — (2013) [ca. 1951]. "Love-Buds". The Mailer Review. 7 (1): 11–27. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- — (2014) [ca. 1951]. "La Petite Bourgeoise". The Mailer Review. 8 (1): 10–16. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- — (2015) [ca. 1951]. "The Thailand Adventure". The Mailer Review. 9 (1): 9–26. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- — (2016) [January 1933]. "The Collision". The Mailer Review. 10 (1): 9–26. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- — (2017) [ca. 1951]. "Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste". The Mailer Review. 11 (1): 8–22. Retrieved 2019-08-04.