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- Short Story:"Ollie, oh..." (Carolyn Chute)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- 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 Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- 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 Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- 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:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- 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:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beachworld (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Breed (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Bromeliads (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- 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:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- 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:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Dogs' Lives (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Favor (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fermi and Frost (Frederik Pohl)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D Rubin Jr)
- Short Story:Finisterre (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:Fire Watch (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Firstborn (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gent (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Going After Cacciato (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Harmony of the World (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Hazel (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Hog's Heart (Gordon Weaver)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home is the Hero (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Homework (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- 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:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In the Miro District (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the White Night (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kid MacArthur (Stephanie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Lady of Spain (Robert Taylor, Jr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Last Courtesies (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaf Season (John Updike)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Lily (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Main Street Morning (Natalie L. M. Petesch)
- Short Story:Mama Tuddi Done Over (Leon Rooke)
- Short Story:Marine Life (Linda Svendsen)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Men under Water (Ralph Lombreglia)
- Short Story:Mercurial (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Molly's Dog (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Psychopolis (Ian McEwan)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Redemption (John Gardner)
- Short Story:Reunion (Guy Vanderhaeghe)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rider (Baine Kerr)
- Short Story:Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Rosa (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Royal Beatings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Saint Marie (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:Shelter Pilgrim (Fred Licht)
- Short Story:Shiloh (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Small Island Republics (Max Apple)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Solitary (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Speck's Idea (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Telling (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The Afterlife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Assembly (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Axe, the Axe, the Axe (Eric Wilson)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey (Robert T. Sorrells)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cafe de Paris (Roberta Gupta)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The City (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Count and the Princess (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Crow Woman (Steve Heller)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- 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 Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Lie Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)

