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- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
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- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
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- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
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- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:Come Away, Oh Human Child (Erik Sandberg-Diment)
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- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
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- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
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- Short Story:Creole Love Song (Nathaniel LaMar)
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- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
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- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
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- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
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- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
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- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
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- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
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- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
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- Short Story:Departure of Hubbard (Robert Gibbons)
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- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
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- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
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- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dotson Gerber Resurrected (Hal Bennett)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Eating Dirt (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Edge of Doom (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
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- Short Story:Elvis Has Left the Building (Carol Anshaw)
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- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eternal Love (Karen E. Bender)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Evenings at Home (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:Every Night for a Thousand Years (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Exodus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Fires (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Flush (Judy Budnitz)
- Short Story:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Footnote to American History (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:From Willow Temple (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghost Girls (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Going Home (James S. Kenary)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Gold (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Gold (Kim Edwards)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Good for the Soul (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Hammam (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- 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:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:He's at the Office (Allan Gurganus)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- 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: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 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)
