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- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- 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 View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Arcturus (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:At the Drugstore (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:August (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Bachelor of Arts (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Bird Man (David Stuart)
- Short Story:Birds, Clouds, Frogs (R. C. Phelan)
- Short Story:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Call Me Joe (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Creole Love Song (Nathaniel LaMar)
- Short Story:Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Dead Center (Judith Merril)
- Short Story:Defender of the Faith (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Free The Canaries From Their Cages (Arthur Granit)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Going To Naples (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Greenleaf (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Hanging Hair (Jack Thomas Leahy)
- Short Story:Heads of Houses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Herman's Day (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:House of Many Rooms (Robin White)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:I Don't Need You Anymore (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In A Foreign City (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Is He Dead (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers (John Barry)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Joshua (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:La Bataille Des Fleurs (Anthony Ostroff)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Little Joe (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Love and Like (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lula Borrow (Thomas Mabry)
- Short Story:Maiden In A Tower (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Miss Leonora When Last Seen (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Mr. Pruitt (Ralph Robin)
- Short Story:Mrs. Mean (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Sister's Marriage (Cynthia Marshall Rich)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Sonny’s Blues (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Sound of a Drunken Drummer (H. W. Blattner)
- Short Story:Sunday Afternoon (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Unhappy Hunting Grounds (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:The Vindication of Dr. Nestor (E. Lucas Myers)
- Short Story:The Waiting (James Agee)
- Short Story:The Wanton Troopers (Max Steele)
- Short Story:The Warlock (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Yellow Beret (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:This Morning, This Evening, So Soon (James Baldwin)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tip On A Dead Jockey (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To The Wilderness I Wander (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:Twenty Below, At The End of a Lane (Ruth Branning Molloy)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Under the Rose (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Very Sharp for Jagging (Richard Clay)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:We’re All Guests (George R. Clay)
- Short Story:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed (Seymour Epstein)
- Short Story:Who Was Jesse's Friend and Protector? (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Wife-Wooing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- Short Story:Words Words Words (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Yore (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:You Were Right, Joe (J. T. McIntosh)
