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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Family Affair (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Father's Story (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:All My Relations (Christopher McIlroy)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- 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:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Banana Boats (Mary Ann Taylor-Hall)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Bleat Blodgette (John Phillips)
- Short Story:Blood Letting (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- 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)
- Short Story:Calloway's Climb (Peter L. Sandberg)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- 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:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Come Away, Oh Human Child (Erik Sandberg-Diment)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Country of the Painted Freaks (David Shetzline)
- Short Story:Covenant (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Customs of the Country (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Da Vinci Is Dead (R.C. Hamilton)
- Short Story:Daddy Garbage (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Daphne's Lover (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Differently (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Disneyland (Barbara Gowdy)
- Short Story:Displacement (David Wong Louie)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dog in the Manger (Michael Rothschild)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dotson Gerber Resurrected (Hal Bennett)
- Short Story:Dovisch in the Wilderness (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Early Morning, Lonely Ride (Nancy Huddleston Packer)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Edie: A Life (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Electric Arrows (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Elizabeth Baird (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fenstad's Mother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Fifty-Fifty (Leonard Wolf)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:First Views of the Enemy (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Goat Song (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Going Home (James S. Kenary)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Greased Samba (John Deck)
- Short Story:Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Grubbing for Roots (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Happiness (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Heart of Gold (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heat (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Here and There (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:His Day Out (Roberta Kalechofsky)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Hostages (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House Hunting (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How to Win (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:I Get By (Mary Robison)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If They Knew Yvonne (Andre Dubus)
