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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- 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 Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- 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 View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- 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 the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- 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:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In a Cold Hotel (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:One Night for Several Samurai (Joseph Whitehill)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Summer (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Sherry (Maureen Howard)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Song of the Simidor (Donald Radcliffek)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Application (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
