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- Short Story:The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman's Life (Dolph Sharp)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Unborn Ghosts (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Undefeated (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Unhappy Hunting Grounds (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Joe Ashby Porter)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Livingston Biddle Jr.)
- Short Story:The Valet of the Splendide (Ludwig Bemelmans)
- Short Story:The Valley of the Shadow (T. K. Brown III)
- Short Story:The Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Vault (T. D. Mabry)
- Short Story:The Venus (William Carlos Williams)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:The Veterans Reflect (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Vicar-General and the Wide Night (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Vindication of Dr. Nestor (E. Lucas Myers)
- Short Story:The Visit (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:The Visitation (Nancy Pelletier Pansing)
- Short Story:The Voice of the Turtle (Edythe Squier Draper)
- Short Story:The Voyage Out (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Waiting (James Agee)
- Short Story:The Wanton Troopers (Max Steele)
- Short Story:The Warlock (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Watch (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Watermelon Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Way Death Comes (Prudencio de Pereda)
- Short Story:The Way of the Transgresssor (Grace Stone Coates)
- Short Story:The Way the Luck Runs (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Way We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Way We Went (Wallace E. Knight)
- Short Story:The Wedding Jest (James Branch Cabell)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The Wedding: Beacon Hill (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The White Battalion (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:The White Boat (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:The White Camel (Eugene Wright)
- Short Story:The White Horses of Vienna (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The White Hound (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The White Pigeon (Gouverneur Paulding)
- Short Story:The Whole World is Outside (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Wide Net (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Widow, Bereft (James Blake)
- Short Story:The Wild Flower (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Willow Walk (Sinclair Lewis)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wishbone (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Woman on the Shore (Marquis W. Childs)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Was Loved (James Stern)
- Short Story:The Women (Richard Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Women (Richard T. Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Women on the Wall (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The World Outside (Howard Maier)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Wrists on the Door (Horace Fish)
- Short Story:The Wrong Man (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:The Young Men Go Down (Harry Hervey)
- Short Story:The Young Priest (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Theft (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Theft (Katharine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:Their Losses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Their Name Is Macaroni (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Then Christs Fought Hard (Milutin Krunich)
- Short Story:Theo's Girl (Nancy Willard)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:There (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:There's Money In Poetry (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:Things To Be Thrown Away (Jonathan Penner)
- Short Story:Think Blue, Count Two (Cordwainer Smith)
- Short Story:Thiotimoline (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:This Healthy Life (Vicki Baum)
- Short Story:This is a Love Story (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:This Town and Salamanca (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Those Are As Brothers (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Three Players of A Summer Game (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Three Washington Stories (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Threnody for Stelios (Peter Gray)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Time's End (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Tinkle and Family Take a Ride (Karlton Kelm)
- Short Story:Tip On A Dead Jockey (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Titty's Dead and Tatty Weeps (Ursula MacDougall)
- Short Story:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:To a Tenor Dying Old (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Be an Athlete (Eunice Luccock Corfman)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:To The Bitter End (Richard Matthews Hallet)
- Short Story:To the Least. . . (Henry Exall)
- Short Story:To The Wilderness I Wander (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:To Those Who Wait (Elick Moll)
- Short Story:Toadstools are Poison (John Peale Bishop)
- Short Story:Today Will Be a Quiet Day (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Tom (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Tom Rivers (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Tommy (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tonight at Nine Thirty-six (Alfred Gillespie)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Transactions in a Foreign Currency (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Transience (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Traveling Salesman (Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas)
- Short Story:Travelogue (Ring W. Lardner)
- Short Story:Treat You Clever (Maristan Chapman)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Triple Jumps (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Triumph of Justice (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Trouble with the Natives (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Troy Street (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:True Believer (Madge Jenison)
- Short Story:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Turista (Albert J. Guérard)
- Short Story:Turkey Hunt (Alberta Pierson Hannum)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:Twenty Below, At The End of a Lane (Ruth Branning Molloy)
- Short Story:Twilight in Southern California (Daniel Fuchs)
- Short Story:Twilight of the God (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Two For a Cent (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Two Heroes (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Two Men Free (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Two Scenes (Jane Bowles)
- Short Story:Two Sisters (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge (Melvin Van Der Bark)
- Short Story:Two Words Are a Story (Elizabeth Hall)
- Short Story:Typical (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Uncommon Sense (Hal Clement)
- Short Story:Under a Wine-Glass (Ellen N. La Motte)
- Short Story:Under the Ginkgo Trees (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Under the Ridge (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:Under the Rose (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Under the Sky (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Understand What I Mean? (Bill Gerry)
- Short Story:Unknown Feathers (Dianne Benedict)
- Short Story:Unshapely Things (Francis Hackett)
- Short Story:Untitled Story (José Garcia Villa)
- Short Story:Up From Slavery (Charles R. Larson)
- Short Story:Up the Road a Piece (Ruth McCoy Harris)
- Short Story:Upon the Sweeping Flood (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Utopia of a Tired Man (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:Vacia (Agnes Macdonald)
- Short Story:Valaida (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Vaster than Empires and More Slow (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Vault of the Beast (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:Vega (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Very Sharp for Jagging (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Victoria (Hilding Johnson)
- Short Story:Victrola (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Vienna Roast (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Vision in the Sea (Ronald Caldwell)
- Short Story:Visit to Her Husband (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:Visitor from Philadelphia (John Bell Clayton)
- Short Story:Viva la Tropicana (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:VRM-547 (W. R. Thompson)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Waiting for Jim (Vera Randal)
- Short Story:Waiting for Trains (Richard Currey)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Walking, Walking (Starkey Flythe)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Warm River (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Wash Far Away (John Berryman)
- Short Story:Water Never Hurt a Man (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Way to the Dump (E. S. Goldman)
- Short Story:We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:We’re All Guests (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:Weekend At Grimsby (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Welcome Home (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:What an Old Woman Will Wear (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:What Do You See, Dear Enid? (Grace Flandrau)
- Short Story:What Feels Like the World (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:What Hurts is That I Was in a Hurry (Vladimir Cherkasski)
- Short Story:What is a Miracle? (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:What Kind of a Man Cuts His Finger Off (Rolaine Hochstein)
- Short Story:What Men Love For (Dale Ray Phillips)
- Short Story:What She Knew (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:What was Truly Mine (Grace Flandrau)
- Short Story:What We Don't Know Hurts Us (Mark Schorer)
- Short Story:What's In A Corner (Philip Horton)
- Short Story:Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? (Gerald Kersh)
- Short Story:Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed (Seymour Epstein)
- Short Story:Wheels (Tupper Greenwald)
- Short Story:When It Changed (Joanna Russ)
- Short Story:When It's Time to Go (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:When the World Screamed (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Short Story:Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Where Did Yesterday Go? (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:White Angel (Michael Cunningham)
- Short Story:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Robert Hazel)
- Short Story:White Man's Town (Lowry Charles Wimberly)
- Short Story:Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (Herb Gardner)
- Short Story:Who Lived and Died Believing (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Who Was Jesse's Friend and Protector? (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Why I Decide to Kill Myself and Other Jokes (Douglas Glover)
- Short Story:Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
- Short Story:Why Were You Sent Out Here? (John Hersey)
- Short Story:Wife-Wooing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Wigtime (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Wild Earth (Sophie Kerr)
- Short Story:Wild Plums (Grace Stone Coates)
- Short Story:Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Willing (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Winkelburg (Ben Hecht)
- Short Story:Winter Meeting (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Winter Night (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- Short Story:Winter: 1978 (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Wissler Remembers (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:With Ché in New Hampshire (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:With Folded Hands (Jack Williamson)
- Short Story:With No Breeze (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:With Some Gaiety and Laughter (Frank K. Kelly)
- Short Story:Wonderland (C. S. Godshalk)
