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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Family Affair (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Calloway's Climb (Peter L. Sandberg)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Away, Oh Human Child (Erik Sandberg-Diment)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Covenant (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
- 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:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- 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:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- 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 Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Leaving the Church (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- 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:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- 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:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Meet Me in the Green Glen (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- 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 Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:N----- Horse (F.K. Franklin)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- 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: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 Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
