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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Change of Air (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- 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 Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- 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 Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- 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 Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Mountain Summer (James Ballard)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- 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 Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- 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 Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- 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 Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- 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 View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- 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:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- 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:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- 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:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Beachhead in Bohemia (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful Night For Orion (Richard Clay)
- 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)
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- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
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- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Brahmin Beachhead (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
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- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
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- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- 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:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- 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:Change of Plan (Ken Purdy)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Children of Ruth (George P. Elliot)
- 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:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Covenant (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Creole Love Song (Nathaniel LaMar)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Dead Center (Judith Merril)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- 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 Days (Madison P. Jones, jr.)
- 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:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- 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:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- 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 Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- 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:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- 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:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- 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)
