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- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:From the Other Side of the South (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Frost and Fire (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Game Chickens (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gentleman in Blue (Laurence Stallings)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting on in the World (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Give This Little Girl a Hand (Fannie Hurst)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:God's Agents Have Beards (Emmanuel Winters)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Goin' to Town (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Going Home (James S. Kenary)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Gold is Not Always (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Good Wednesday (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:Goodbye to Cap'm John (S. S. Field)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Grimaldi (Susan Meriwether)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Grudges (Rupert Hughes)
- Short Story:Gunner's Passage (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Hair (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Hamlet's Dagger (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Hand Upon the Waters (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Handy (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Hansel (Andra Diefenthaler)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Happiness Up The River (Harry Hartwick)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Harvest (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:He Laughed at the Gods (James Oppenheim)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Heel, Toe, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (George Milburn)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Her Own Sweet Simplicity (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Here We Are (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Herself (James Pooler)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:His Friend The Pig (Wilson McCarty)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home Brew (Grace Sartwell Mason)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Home To Mother's (Eleanor E. Harris)
- Short Story:Home-Coming (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Jessie Treichler)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horizon (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:Horse and Horse (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Hound of Heaven (Sarah Addington)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:Housewife (David Freeman)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:How the Devil Came Down Division Street (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How Willie Proudfit Came Home (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:Huey, The Engineer (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Have Letters For Marjorie (Edward L. McKenna)
- Short Story:I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Josephine Herbst)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:I'm a Fool (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Ike and Us Moons (Naomi Shumway)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Ill-Winds From the Wide World (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In a Military Manner (Samuel Elkin)
- Short Story:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In a Thicket (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In Portofino (Alan Sullivan)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In the Cage (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:In the Flow of Time (Beatrice Griffith)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In The Metropolis (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In the Park (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the Twilight (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Indian on the Road (Gean Clark)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Innocence (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Is He Dead (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Jerry (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job's Tears (James Still)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:John the Baptist (Waldo Frank)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Justice Has No Number (Alfredo Segre)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Kullan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Lady Wipers--Of Ypres (Llewellyn Hughes)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Lay Me Low! (Louis Paul)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Let Nothing You Dismay (Allen McGinnis)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Leviathan (Ellis St. Joseph)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Lieutenant Pearson (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Light Without Heat (Robert Mullen)
- Short Story:Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart (Elizabeth Eastman)
- Short Story:Like a Winding Sheet (Ann Petry)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Lion (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Lions, Harts, Leaping Does (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Little Baseball World (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:Little Bride (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Little White Girl (Sara Haardt)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Lo! (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Load (Dudley Schnabel)
