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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:All My Relations (Christopher McIlroy)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In a Father's Place (Cristopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Inn Essence (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (Larry Brown)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Mr. Morning (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Ape Lady in Retirement (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Concert Party (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Count and the Princess (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Disappeared (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Songs of Reba Love Jackson (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Way We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:Theft (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Tommy (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Transactions in a Foreign Currency (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Unknown Feathers (Dianne Benedict)
- Short Story:Victrola (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:Wash Far Away (John Berryman)
- Short Story:Way to the Dump (E. S. Goldman)
- Short Story:What Feels Like the World (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:White Angel (Michael Cunningham)
- Short Story:Why I Decide to Kill Myself and Other Jokes (Douglas Glover)
- Short Story:Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
- Short Story:Wigtime (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Willing (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Wonderland (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:Wood (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:You're Ugly, Too (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Your Place is Empty (Anne Tyler)


