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- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
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- Short Story:Second Wife (Harry Harrison Kroll)
- Short Story:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
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- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Serenade (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
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- Short Story:Shepherd of the Lord (Peter Neagoe)
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- Short Story:Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare (Astrid Meighan)
- Short Story:Shoes (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:Siege of Love (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:Sleet Storm (Louise Lambertson)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Small Miracle (Adele Dolokhov)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Smoke (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
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- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:So Tall the Corn (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:So-Long, Oldtimer (Edmund Ware)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Soldier Harmon (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Something Jolly (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
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- Short Story:Speck's Idea (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Spring Story (Meridel Le Sueur)
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- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Stealing Cars (Theodore Weesner)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Strike Up a Stirring Music (Berry Fleming)
- Short Story:Strip-Tease (George Weller)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Suffer Little Children (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Summer Dust (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Suns That Our Hearts Harden (Carlton Brown)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
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- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Surviving Adverse Seasons (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:Symphonesque (Arthur Huff Fauset)
- Short Story:Tabloid News (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Take The Stand, Please (Chester T. Crowell)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Tell Him I Waited (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Terminal Procedure (M. Pabst Battin)
- Short Story:Thanks for Nothing (Roaldus Richmond)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:That Fine Place We Had Last Year (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:That Frozen Hour (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:That Greek Dog (MacKinlay Kantor)
- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:That Thou art Mindful of Him (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:That Will Be Fine (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:That Woman (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:That's My Johnny-Boy (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:That's the Man! (Mary Brinker Post)
- Short Story:That's What Happened to Me (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Actes and Monuments (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:The Aesculapians (Marvin Mandell)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Analyst (Evan Hunter)
- Short Story:The Animal's Fair (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Apprentice (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bear (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Fire (I. V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Black and White Game (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Black Hand Girl (Blanche McCary Boyd)
- Short Story:The Black Laugh (A.B. Shiffrin)
- Short Story:The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey (Robert T. Sorrells)
- Short Story:The Blue Kimono (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Blue Sash (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Boy Who Was Astrid's Mother (Mae Seidman Briskin)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Bridge (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wheel (Sirak Goryan)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brothers (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcher (Wilma Shore)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Caller (Meyer Liben)
- Short Story:The Camel's Back (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:The cane in the corridor (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Cape (Esther McCoy)
- Short Story:The Cat That Lived At The Ritz (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
- Short Story:The Cats Which Cried (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- Short Story:The Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Chicory Neighbors (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Christian Bite (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Cocoon (John B. L. Goodwin)
- Short Story:The Coffin (Clement Wood)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Concert Party (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Count and the Princess (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:The Country Doctor (Ivan Beede)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Cracked Looking-Glass (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Crazy Guy (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Crusader (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Czech Dog (W. G. Hardy)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Dark City (Conrad Aiken)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Darkness (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Dawn Swings In (Lance Jeffers)
