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- 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 Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- 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:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- 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:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- 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:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:In Late Youth (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
- 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:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- 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:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Loud Sing Cuckoo (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mansion, Magic, and Miracle (Lewis B. Horne)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Places We Lost (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Ripped Off (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- 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:Terminal Procedure (M. Pabst Battin)
- Short Story:That Lovely Green Boat (Bill Berge)
- Short Story:That Thou art Mindful of Him (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- 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 Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Body Shop (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Boy Who Was Astrid's Mother (Mae Seidman Briskin)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- 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 Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
