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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Letter to Mr. Priest (Margaret Cousins)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Alcantara (MacGregor Jenkins)
- Short Story:All Souls' (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Anthropology: What is Lost in Rotation (William S. Wilson)
- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bad Boy from Brooklyn (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Brahmin Beachhead (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Come Away, Oh Human Child (Erik Sandberg-Diment)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comes A Day (Speed Lamkin)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Death and Transfiguration (Alan Marshall)
- Short Story:Death in the Woods (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dotson Gerber Resurrected (Hal Bennett)
- Short Story:Down in the Reeds by the River (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Eating Dirt (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elvis Has Left the Building (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Episode at the Pawpaws (Louis Reed)
- Short Story:Eustacia (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Fame For Mr. Beatty (James Norman Hall)
- Short Story:Fame Takes the J Car (George Albee)
- Short Story:FAQ (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Firelight (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Flush (Judy Budnitz)
- Short Story:Fly Away Home (Roberts Jackson)
- Short Story:Footnote to American History (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:From Shanghai (Jonathan Wilson)
- Short Story:Going Home (James S. Kenary)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Goodbye to Cap'm John (S. S. Field)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Goose-Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Hammam (Carol Anshaw)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:He's at the Office (Allan Gurganus)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Hippies, Indians, Buffalo (Wayne Johnson)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:Home To Mother's (Eleanor E. Harris)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:I Have Letters For Marjorie (Edward L. McKenna)
- Short Story:Ike and Us Moons (Naomi Shumway)
- Short Story:In a Military Manner (Samuel Elkin)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Shock (Leo E. Litwak)
- Short Story:In The French Style (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inland, Western Sea (Nathan Asch)
- Short Story:Innocence (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Kullan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Lady Wipers--Of Ypres (Llewellyn Hughes)
- Short Story:Leviathan (Ellis St. Joseph)
- Short Story:Lion (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Little Frogs in a Ditch (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Magic (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Maneki Neko (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Michael Finney and the Little Men (John Richard Humphreys)
- Short Story:Miss Cynthie (Rudolph Fisher)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Mourning Call (Curt Leviant)
- Short Story:Mr. Downey Sits Down (L.H. Robbins)
- Short Story:Mr. Iscariot (Richard G. Brown)
- Short Story:Murphy's Xmas (Mark Costello)
- Short Story:My Brother Down There (Steve Frazee)
- Short Story:My Father on the Verge of Disgrace (John Updike)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:No Way Down (Almet Jenks)
- Short Story:Nobody in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Not With Our Fathers (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:On the Island (Josephine Jacobsen)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Paper Poppy (Miriam Rugel)
- Short Story:Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Pipa's Story (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:Pluto is the Furthest Planet (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Prohibition (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Prowler (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Puerto Vallerta (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Put Yourself in My Shoes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Ralph the Duck (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Red Mocassions (Susan Power)
- Short Story:Remaking History (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Rest Camp on Maui (Eugene L. Burdick)
- Short Story:Resurrection of a Life (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Return by Faith (Francis L. Broderick)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Sam Small's Better Half (Eric Knight)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scotch Sour (David Shaber)
- Short Story:Sculpture I (Angela Patrinos)
- Short Story:Seventy Thousand Dollars (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:Shepherd of the Lord (Peter Neagoe)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Simple Arithmetic (Virginia Moriconi)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:So I Guess You Know What I Told Him (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Sparrow's Last Jump (Elliot Grennard)
- Short Story:Still, Still So (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Strip-Tease (George Weller)
- Short Story:Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Osborn Duke)
- Short Story:Tea at the House (Meg Wolitzer)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Thanks for Nothing (Roaldus Richmond)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Analyst (Evan Hunter)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (Poe Ballantine)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Cats Which Cried (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Christian Bite (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Facts in the Case (Grant Leenhouts)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Foreigner (Bill Adams)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Green Village (Margaret Rhodes Peattie)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Hidden Room (Lawrence Williams)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hitch-Hikers (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The Illumination (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Impulse (Conrad Aiken)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The King of the Cats (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:The King's Daughter (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Last Meeting (William March)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Little Wife (William March)
- Short Story:The Man in the Mirror (Adelaide Gerstley)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The Norm (Elaine Gottlieb)
- Short Story:The Old Order (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other Side of the Street (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Siege (Niccolo Tucci)

