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- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- 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:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Body Language (Diane Schoemperlen)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- 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: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 If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- 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: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:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Figure Over the Town (William Goyen)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- 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: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 Words of (Julie Hayden)
- 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:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:Nobody in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Custodian (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
