Pride
A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor

Envy
Roman Fever, Edith Wharton
Smokers, Tobias Wolff

Anger
Mary Postgate, Rudyard Kipling
Hairball, Margaret Atwood

Sloth
The House with the Mezzanine, Anton Chekhov
Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason

Greed
The Rocking-Horse Winner, D. H. Lawrence
The Inherited Clock, Elizabeth Bowen

Gluttony
Fat, Raymond Carver
Famine, Xu Xi

Lust
Not a Good Girl, Perri Klass
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander