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- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
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- Short Story:Ice (Lily Tuck)
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- Short Story:In the Porches of My Ears (Norman Prentiss)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
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- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Infinities (Vandana Singh)
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- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Intervention (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Into Silence (Marlin Barton)
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- Short Story:Into the Penny Arcade (Claire Massey)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
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- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
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