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- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Mud Below (Annie Proulx)
- 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 New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The NRACP (George P. Elliot)
- 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 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 Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- 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 Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- 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 Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- 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 Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- 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 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 (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Rest of Her Life (Steve Yarbrough)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- 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 Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- 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 Secrets of Bats, The Secrets of Bats (Jess Row)
- 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 Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Silver Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- 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 Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Steinway Quintet (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- 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 People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- 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 Thing Around Them, The Thing Around Them (Marilyn Krysl)
- Short Story:The Third and Final Continent (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Third Guest (B. Traven)
- 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 Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Tumblers (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Twa Corbies (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Ugliest House in the World (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Unborn Ghosts (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Uncharted Heart (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T.C. Boyle)
- 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 Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Vault (T. D. Mabry)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- 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 Voyage Out (John Rolfe Gardiner)
- 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 People Run (Christopher Tilghman)
- 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 Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The White Hound (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Widow, Bereft (James Blake)
- Short Story:The Wild Flower (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wishbone (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:The World Outside (Howard Maier)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Theft (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Their Losses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Theo's Girl (Nancy Willard)
- Short Story:Theories of Rain (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:There (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Things Left Undone (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:Things To Be Thrown Away (Jonathan Penner)
- Short Story:Think Blue, Count Two (Cordwainer Smith)
- Short Story:Think of England (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Thiotimoline (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Three Players of A Summer Game (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Three Washington Stories (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Tip On A Dead Jockey (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:To a Tenor Dying Old (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Be an Athlete (Eunice Luccock Corfman)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:To The Wilderness I Wander (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:Today Will Be a Quiet Day (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Tom (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Tommy (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tonight at Nine Thirty-six (Alfred Gillespie)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Transactions in a Foreign Currency (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Transience (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Trouble with the Natives (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Troy Street (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)

