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- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- 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 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 to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- 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:If You Sing Like That for Me (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Illumination (Nancy Reisman)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Improving My Average (Kate Wheeler)
- 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 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 Roseau (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In the Flow of Time (Beatrice Griffith)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Gloaming (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- 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 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:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Influenza (Daniel Menaker)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- 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:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Islands (A. Hemon)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:JunHee (Marshall Klimasewiski)
- 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:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Killing Babies (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Killing Babies (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lake Natasink (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Leg (Steven Polansky)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Little Frogs in a Ditch (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Live Life King-Sized, Live Life King-Sized (Hester Kaplan)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- 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 and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- 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:Man, Woman, Boy (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Maneki Neko (Bruce Sterling)
- 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 Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Meet Me in the Green Glen (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Merry-Go-Sorry (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miami-New York (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Moon (Chaim Potok)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morning, a Week Before the Crime (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- 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. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mr. Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson)
- Short Story:Mr. Sweetly Indecent (Bliss Broyard)
- Short Story:Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter (Chitra Divakaruni)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- 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 Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father on the Verge of Disgrace (John Updike)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Mother's Garden (Katherine Shonk)
- 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:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nicodemus Bluff (Barry Hannah)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Not With Our Fathers (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- 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 Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- 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 Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- 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:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Oreste (Henry Schultz)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Pair a Spurs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Lantern (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
