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- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourners (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Murder (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Murder on Jefferson Street (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Mustydines Was Ripe (Howell Vines)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Net (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Nightingales Sing (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Norm (Elaine Gottlieb)
- Short Story:The NRACP (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:The Nurse (Ben Ames Williams)
- Short Story:The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Old Forest (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Old Order (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Only People (Judith Higgins)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Other Road (Edward L. Strater)
- Short Story:The Other Side of the Street (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Overcoat (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:The Owl and the Bens (W. O. Mitchell)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Party Next Door (Ernest Brace)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Patriot (William Polk)
- Short Story:The Pawnshop (John S. Sexton)
- Short Story:The Peach Stone (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The pelican's shadow (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:The Pension (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Pigeon (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Solitude (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Travel (Wendall Wilcox)
- Short Story:The Poet (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:The Poet (Warren L. Van Dine)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Portable Phonograph (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
- Short Story:The Pot of Gold (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Presbyterian Choir Sings (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Promise (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Psychologist (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarrel (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Rat is a Mouse (Hal Ellson)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Dress (Sylvia Shirley)
- Short Story:The Red Hat (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Rented Room (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Resurrection and the Life (William C.G. Jitro)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Reverse Bug (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Right Honorable The Strawberries (Owen Wister)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Romantic Sailor (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The S.S. Libertad (Eyre De Lanux)
- Short Story:The Sacred Thing (Paul Ryan)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Sampler (Ira V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Sand Castle (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The Scarecrow (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Scout Master (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Search (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Second Tree from the Corner (E. B. White)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Sense That In The Scene Delights (Benjamin Demott)
- Short Story:The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Seven Men of Rouen (George Slocombe)
- Short Story:The Shame of Gold (Charles J. Finger)
- Short Story:The Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Shroud (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:The Siege (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Singing Lesson (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Songs of Reba Love Jackson (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Sons of Martha (Richard McKenna)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Sound That Frost Makes (Solon R. Barber)
- Short Story:The Spaniard (Prudencio de Pereda)
- Short Story:The Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Stagecoach (Griffith Beems)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Steinway Quintet (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:The Storm (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Story of the Stranger (John Cournos)
- Short Story:The Stupendous Fortune (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Sun and the Rain (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Surgeon and the Nun (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swamper (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The System Was Doomed (Meyer Levin)
- Short Story:The Tabby Cat (Paul Rader)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Terror in the Streets (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:The Test (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Third Guest (B. Traven)
- Short Story:The Thousand-Yard Stare (Hansford Martin)
- Short Story:The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Threshing Ring (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Thunderstorm (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Frederick Buechner)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- 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 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 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)

