Acknowledgements

Though the movement toward free and open educational resources for students is a great development, creating quality content cannot happen without broad support. This anthology could not have been completed without deep support and commitment at many levels from Columbus State Community College and beyond, including:

• The OER initiative at CSCC, expert librarians, technology and design support from instructional designers, supportive administrators and reassigned time for faculty developers. Rachel Dilley, Don Bruce, and Elina Vayntraub especially provided essential support throughout this project.
• The many talented readers who volunteered their time to record the Chapter Three short stories, including Ashley Sammataro, Brian West, Erin Kinser, Faye Mock, Jaden Parise, Hillary Jones, Mitchell Rogers, Ronald Boisvert, Susan Boisvert, and Elizabeth Faltner. Special thanks to Professor Frank Barnhart’s Theater students, including Alexander Erney, Fatima Rodriguez-Saucedo, Makaela Jefferson, Patrick Lombardo, Scott Manning, and Samuel Nickoloff.
• Outside organizations like Project Gutenberg, Americanliterature.com, archive.org and others that have done the hard work of scanning, transcribing and hosting high quality versions of great literary works that we were able to use for this anthology. Individual short story credits are included below.
• The Purdue Online Writing Lab staff who were kind enough to create their Literary Terms and Literary Theories content and to allow us to include them in this anthology.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art, a world-class Ohio institution that digitized its collection and magnanimously made it available online as open access. All visual art included in this anthology is from CMA. Individual art credits are included below.
• Editors and publishers of established textbooks that we bought and used as students and/or later taught from as professors including Ann Charter’s The Story and It’s Writer, Dana Gioia and R.S. Gwynn’s The Art of the Short Story, James Nagel’s Anthology of the American Short Story, Michael Meyer’s Literature to Go, R.V. Cassill’s The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Roxane Gay’s The Best American Short Stories, and R.S Gwynn’s Fiction: A Pocket Anthology. We recommend students buy any of these excellent books if they want to own a professional print equivalent of this anthology.