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- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Curtain of Green (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:A Day in the Country (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Distant Episode (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:A Distant Harbour (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:A Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Life in the Day of a Writer (Tess Slesinger)
- Short Story:A Loaf of Bread (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:A Master Time (James Still)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Pretty Cute Little Stunt (George Milburn)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- 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:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:All Souls' (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Amethyst (Edwin Corle)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Arrival at Carthage (Scammon Lockwood)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Annunciation (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:Asphodel (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Berkshire Comedy (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Beyond (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Black Tobias and the Empire (Heinz Werner)
- Short Story:Body Language (Diane Schoemperlen)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Boundary Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Boy in the Summer Sun (Mark Schorer)
- Short Story:Bread and Games (John D. Weaver)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bus to Biarritz (Madelene Cole)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Castle of Snow (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Catafalque (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato)
- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Cora Unashamed (Langston Hughes)
- Short Story:Corporal Hardy (Richard Ely Danielson)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Crime Passionnel (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Crossroads Woman (Howard McKinley Corning)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dear Mr. Flessheimer (Whitfield Cook)
- Short Story:Death and My Uncle Felix (Alison Stuart)
- Short Story:Death Under Hawthornes (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Don't Scrub Off These Names (John McNulty)
- Short Story:Down in the Reeds by the River (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Enter Daisy; To Her, Alexandra (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Episode of a House Remembered (John Rogers)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eustacia (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Evenings at Home (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Evensong (Daniel Waldron)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Exiles From the Creuse (Mary Mian)
- Short Story:Exodus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Father and Son (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Father Delacroix (May Davies Martenet)
- Short Story:Fifteen From Company K (William March)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:First Day Finish (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Fisherman's Luck (Emmett Gowen)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flesh and Blood (Laurence Critchell)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:For a Beautiful Relationship (Wentzle Ruml III)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gentleman in Blue (Laurence Stallings)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:God's Agents Have Beards (Emmanuel Winters)
- Short Story:Goin' to Town (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Gold is Not Always (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Hair (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Hamlet's Dagger (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harvest (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heel, Toe, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (George Milburn)
- Short Story:Her Own Sweet Simplicity (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Here We Are (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Herself (James Pooler)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Home-Coming (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Horizon (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
- Short Story:I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Josephine Herbst)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Ill-Winds From the Wide World (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In the Cage (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:In the Flow of Time (Beatrice Griffith)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Twilight (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:Indian on the Road (Gean Clark)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Jerry (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Job's Tears (James Still)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Lay Me Low! (Louis Paul)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Let Nothing You Dismay (Allen McGinnis)
- Short Story:Like a Winding Sheet (Ann Petry)
- Short Story:Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Eudora Welty)
