Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt Little selves / Mary Lerner A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell The other woman / Sherwood Anderson The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer The killers / Ernest Hemingway Double birthday / Willa Cather Wild plums / Grace Stone Coates Theft / Katherine Anne Porter That evening sun go down / William Faulkner Here we are / Dorothy Parker Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald My dead brother comes to America / Alexander Godin Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren Bright and morning star / Richard Wright

The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty The peach stone / Paul Horgan "That in Aleppo once..." / Vladimir Nabokov The interior castle / Jean Stafford Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn The second tree from the corner / E.B. White The farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams The country husband / John Cheever Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall Defender of the faith / Philip Roth Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin The German refugee / Bernard Malamud

Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates

The rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell

Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson

The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer

A city of churches / Donald Barthelme

How to win / Rosellen Brown

Roses, rhododendron / Alice Adams

Verona : a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey

A silver dish / Saul Bellow

Gesturing / John Updike

The shawl / Cynthia Ozick

Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver

Janus / Ann Beattie

The way we live now / Susan Sontag

The things they carried / Tim O'Brien

Meneseteung / Alice Munro

You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore

I want to live! / Thom Jones

In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark

Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell

Birthmates / Gish Jen

Soon / Pam Durban

The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.