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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Night's Work (Jaimy Gordon)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Real Life (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Subway Named Mobius (A. J. Deutsch)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:All Shall Love Me and Despair (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An interval like this (Robert Gorham Davis)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Arena (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- Short Story:Beverly Home (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Bicycle Repairman (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
- Short Story:Blind Jozef Pronek (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:By His Bootstraps (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Cal (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Cataract (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Coming of Age in Karhide (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Cosmopolitan (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing After Hours (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Every Night for a Thousand Years (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Flush (Judy Budnitz)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:From Willow Temple (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:Frost and Fire (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Gold (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:He's at the Office (Allan Gurganus)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Homecoming (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honored Guest (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In Roseau (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Gloaming (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:In the Zoo (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Influenza (Daniel Menaker)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- 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:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Lake Natasink (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- 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:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Maneki Neko (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Merry-Go-Sorry (Cary Holladay)
