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- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- 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 Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Cape (Esther McCoy)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- Short Story:The Chasm (John Keeble)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Children Stay (Alice Munro)
- 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 Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- 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 Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Dancing Dwarf (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Dawn Swings In (Lance Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Death of Sun (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson (Marion Montgomery)
- Short Story:The Depressed Person (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dock-Witch (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The End of the Depression (Mary Bolte)
- Short Story:The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Fare to the Moon (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Farmer's Children (Elizabeth Bishop)
- Short Story:The Fear of Innocence (Leslie A. Fiedler)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Final Inning (Thomas Glave)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Firebird (Legarde S. Doughty)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Fireman (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:The Forest of the Night (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Gilgul of Park Avenue (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Glass Wall (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Good Shopkeeper (Samrat Upadhyay)
- Short Story:The Governors of Wyoming (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hired Man (Joan Strong)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The Hollow Heart (M. F. K. Fisher)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Human Fly (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Important Houses (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Incredible Appearing Man (Deborah Galyan)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last of the Grizzly Bears (Ray B. West, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Letters (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Lie Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Life of the Sleeping Beauty (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Lover of Women (Sue Miller)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Mail Lady (David Gates)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Black Suit (Stephen King)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Men (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Middle Drawer (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Mine from Nicaragua (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)

