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- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Arrival on a Holiday (Wilson Wright)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Beyond (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Black Tobias and the Empire (Heinz Werner)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Bread and Games (John D. Weaver)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Cruelties (Edwina Stanton Babcock)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:De Vilmarte's Luck (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Death of an Outcast (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Down On Their Knees (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Episode in a Machine Age (Cambray Brown)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Extra Men (Harrison Rhodes)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Good Wednesday (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Horse and Horse (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:Huey, The Engineer (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:In a Military Manner (Samuel Elkin)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:Innocence (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lion (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manicure (Margaret Leech)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Midwestern Primitive (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night Club (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Off the Highway (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Prelude (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Prohibition (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Redbone (Ada Jack Carver)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Shadow of a Girl (E. B. Ashton)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Shoes (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Smoke (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Solitaire (Fleta Campbell Springer)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:That Woman (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Centenarian (Will E. Ingersoll)
- Short Story:The Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Crazy Guy (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Dear Little Doves (Eleanor Green)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Enemy (Pearl S. Buck)
- Short Story:The First Stone (Grace Sartwell Mason)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Girl from the River Barge (Walter Schoenstedt)
- Short Story:The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Happiest Man on Earth (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:The Haunted Palace (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:The Hemlock Tree (Vincent Sheean)
- Short Story:The Home Place (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Honey Pot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Hunch (A. H. Z. Carr)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Saw Through Heaven (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:The Marriage in Kairwan (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Nurse (Ben Ames Williams)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Presbyterian Choir Sings (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Promise (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Dress (Sylvia Shirley)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Sacrificial Altar (Gertrude Atherton)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Seven Men of Rouen (George Slocombe)
- Short Story:The Siege (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Singing Lesson (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The Sons of Martha (Richard McKenna)
- Short Story:The Stagecoach (Griffith Beems)
- Short Story:The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Thousand-Yard Stare (Hansford Martin)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Valley of the Shadow (T. K. Brown III)
- Short Story:The Wanton Troopers (Max Steele)
- Short Story:The Way the Luck Runs (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The White Camel (Eugene Wright)
- Short Story:The White Horses of Vienna (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Whole World is Outside (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Wide Net (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Widow, Bereft (James Blake)
- Short Story:The Women on the Wall (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The World Outside (Howard Maier)
- Short Story:There's Money In Poetry (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:To Be an Athlete (Eunice Luccock Corfman)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Triumph of Justice (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:True Believer (Madge Jenison)
- Short Story:Twilight of the God (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Two Heroes (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Vega (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Vienna Roast (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Visitor from Philadelphia (John Bell Clayton)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Water Never Hurt a Man (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:What is a Miracle? (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Workout On The River (Roger Shattuck)
- Short Story:Your Lover Just Called (John Updike)


