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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
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- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
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- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
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- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
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- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
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- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
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- Short Story:A Letter to Mr. Priest (Margaret Cousins)
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- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
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- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
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- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
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- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
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- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
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- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Subway Named Mobius (A. J. Deutsch)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- 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 Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
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- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wife of Nashville (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
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- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
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- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
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- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
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- Short Story:At Peace (Ann Copeland)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
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- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
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- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
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- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
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- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
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- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful Night For Orion (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
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- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
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- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
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- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
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- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Brahmin Beachhead (Nancy Hale)
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- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Bright Winter (Anna Keesey)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
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- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
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- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
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- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
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- 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:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carmencita (Waverley Root)
- Short Story:Carried Away (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Cataract (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Center of Gravity (L.J. Amster)
- Short Story:Certain Hard Places (Linda Arking)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)

