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- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love Affair (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love Is For Lovers (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Love's So Many Things (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man on a Road (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manicure (Margaret Leech)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Mansion, Magic, and Miracle (Lewis B. Horne)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Martin Gerrity Gets Even (Lee F. Creagan and Courtney Ryley Cooper)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Maybe the Sun Will Shine (William March)
- Short Story:Meet Me in the Green Glen (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mendel Marantz—Housewife (David Freeman)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miami-New York (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Michael Finney and the Little Men (John Richard Humphreys)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Midwestern Primitive (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Minstrels of the Mist (Ben Lucien Burman)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miriam (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Miss Cynthie (Rudolph Fisher)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Mist on the Meadow (William March)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Money at Home (Upton Terrell)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morning, a Week Before the Crime (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Downey Sits Down (L.H. Robbins)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Dead Brother Comes to America (Alexander Godin)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My Friend Flicka (Mary O' Hara)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:My Public (Margaret Shedd)
- Short Story:My Russian Cap (Leon Z. Surmelian)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Natalka's Portion (Rose Gollup Cohen)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Neither Here Nor There (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night and the Lost Armies (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Night Club (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Night Watch (Thomas Heggen)
- Short Story:No Final Word (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Nocturne: A Red Shawl (Roger Sergel)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:North Is Black (Oliver La Farge, 2nd)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Not With Our Fathers (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Notes of a Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:Off the Highway (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Mountain-Side (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Night for Several Samurai (Joseph Whitehill)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pastor Dowe At Tacate (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Persephone (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Phantom Adventure (Floyd Dell)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pigeons en casserole (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Poisoner in Motley (Louis Brennan)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Polonaise (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Pontius Pilate (John Hagge)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Poor Monsieur Panalitus (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Potato Picking (Robert McAlmon)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Prelude (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Prince of Darkness (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Pro Arte (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Prohibition (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Put Yourself in My Shoes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Puttermesser Paired (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Redbone (Ada Jack Carver)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Remarks: None (William Wister Haines)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Requa I (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Rest Cure (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Resurrection of a Life (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Return by Faith (Francis L. Broderick)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Rich Men (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Ripped Off (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Road to the Isles (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Robot (Guy Davenport)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Roof Sitter (Frances Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Royal Beatings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Run, Run, Run, Run (A. J. Liebling)
- Short Story:Sacrifice of Isaac (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 (Tom Cole)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Salutation to Spring (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
