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Best short stories of 1915. The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
The wake / Donn Byrne --
Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort --
La derniere mobilisation / W.A. Dwiggins --
The citizen / James Francis Dwyer --
Whose dog-? / Frances Gregg --
Life / Ben Hecht --
T.B. / Fannie Hurst --
Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson --
Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan --
The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon --
Heart of youth / Walter J. Muilenburg --
The end of the path / Newbold Noyes --
The whale and the grasshopper / Seumas O'Brien --
In Berlin / Mary Boyle O'Reilly --
The waiting years / Katharine Metcalf Roof --
Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt --
The survivors / Elsie Singmaster --
The yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The bounty-jumper / Mary Synon. Best short stories of 1916 The sacrificial altar / --
Miss Willett / Barry Benefield --
Supers / Frederick Booth --
Fog / Dana Burnet --
Ma's pretties / Francis Buzzell --
The great auk / Irvin S. Cobb --
The lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The silent infare / Gordon --
The cat of the cane-brake / Frederick Stuart --
Making port / Hallet --
Ice water, pl-! / Fannie Hurst --
Little selves / Mary Lerner --
The sun chaser / Jeannette Marks --
road / Walter J. Muilenburg --
on Dorchester Heights / Pentz --
The menorah / Rosenblatt --
Penance / Elsie Singmaster --
Feet of gold / Smith --
Down on their knees / Steele --
Half-past ten / Alice L. Tildesley. Best short stories of 1917. excursion / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Onnie / --
A cup of tea / Struthers Burt --
Lonely places / Buzzell --
Boys will be boys / Cobb --
Laughter / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
of Elam / H.G. Dwight --
dog / Edna Ferber --
move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould --
her peers / Susan Glaspell --
mouse / Frederick Stuart Greene --
/ Richard Matthews Hallet --
the wreaths / Fannie Hurst --
strange-looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson --
in the night / Burton Kline --
/ Vincent O'Sullivan --
certain rich man-" / Lawrence Perry --
glory / Mary Brecht Pulver --
ching, Chinaman / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
blind / Mary Synon. Best short stories of 1918. of piety / Achmed Abdullah --
Cruelties / Stanton Babcock --
Buster / Katharine Holland Brown --
window / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
/ Mary Mitchell Freedley --
/ Gordon Hall Gerould --
fever-ward / George Gilbert --
hand / G. Humphrey --
the master / Arthur Johnson --
code : Burton Kline --
The willow walk / Lewis --
The story Vinton heard at Mallorie / Prescott Moseley --
The toast to forty-five / Dudley Pelley --
Extra men / Harrison Rhodes --
Solitaire / Campbell Springer --
The dark hour / Daniel Steele --
The bird of serbia / Street --
At Isham's / Edward C. Venable --
Vilmarte's luck / Mary Heaton Vorse --
battalion / Frances Gilchrist Wood. Best short stories of 1919. The Kitchen Gods / G.F. Alsop --
An awakening / Anderson --
Willum's Vanilla / Stanton Babcock --
A night among the horses / --
Long, long ago / Orin Bartlett --
Dishes / Agnes Mary Brownell --
blood-red one / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
wedding-jest / James Branch Cabell --
on the door / Horace Fish --
goat" / Susan Glaspell --
The stone / Goodman --
To the bitter end / Matthews Hallet --
The meeker ritual / Hergesheimer --
The centenarian / Ingersoll --
Messengers / Calvin Johnston --
Drainger's veil / Howard Mumford Jones --
wine-glass / Ellen N. La Motte --
beauty / Elias Lieberman --
room / Mary Heaton Vorse --
fat of the land" / Anzia Yezierska. Best short stories of 1920. woman / Sherwood Anderson --
Gargoyle / Stanton Babcock --
Ghitza / Konrad Bercovici --
five points / Edna Clare Bryner --
tower / Wadsworth Camp --
genius / Helen Coale Crew --
Habakkuk / Fullerton Gerould --
The judgement of vulcan / Hartman --
The stick-in-the-muds / Hughes --
His job / Grace Sartwell Mason --
/ James Oppenheim --
dummy-chucker / Arthur Somers Roche --
/ Rose Sidney --
The rotter / Campbell Springer --
Out of exile / Daniel Steele --
The three telegrams / --
The roman bath / --
Amazement / Stephen French Whitman --
Sheener / Williams --
Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood. Best short stories of 1921. Brothers / Anderson --
Fanutza / Konrad Bercovici --
Experiment / Struthers Burt --
Darkness / Irvin S. Cobb --
instrument of the gods / Lincoln Concord --
god / Charles J. Finger --
dome / Waldo Frank --
French Eva / Fullerton Gerould --
The past / Ellen Glasgow --
His smile / Glaspell --
The harbor master / Matthews Hallet --
Green gardens / Noyes Hart --
She walks in beauty / --
The little master of the sky / Komroff --
The man with the good face / --
Master of Fallen years / O'Sullivan --
The shame dance / Daniel Steele --
Kindred / Harriet Maxon Thayer --
Shelby / Hanson Towne --
The wallow of the sea / Vorse. Best short stories of 1922. city / Conrad Aiken --
I'm a fool / Anderson --
The death of Murdo / Bercovivi --
An unknown warrior / Boogher --
The helpless ones / Booth --
Forest cover / --
Natalka's portion / Cohen --
The shame of gold / Finger --
Two for a cent / Fitzgerald --
John the Baptist / --
Mendel Marantz-Housewife / Freedman --
Belshazzar's letter / Fullerton --
Winkelburg / Ben Hecht --
The token / Joseph Hergesheimer --
resurrection and the life / Jitro --
The golden honeymoon / Lardner --
He laughed at the Gods / Oppenheim --
In the metropolis / Rosenblatt --
From the other side of the south / Daniel Steele --
The coffin / Clement Wood. Best short stories of 1923. sailor / Bill Adams --
Man's story / Sherwood Anderson --
Cardeezer / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Seed / Bercovici --
Beyond the cross / --
Ignition / Valma Clark --
hyena / Irvin S. Cobb --
Samovar / --
Reina / Theodore Dreiser --
Home girl / --
Button / Henry Goodman --
My old man / Hemenway --
Seven candles / --
Today tomorrow / Prescott Montague --
Contract of Corporal Twing / Stewart --
By die process of law / --
Renters / Ruth Sukow --
Blood-burning moon / --
Promise / Mary Heaton Vorse --
fauna / Harry Leon Wilson. Best short stories of 1924. Champlin / --
Billy / Mildred Cram --
adventure / Floyd Dell --
Cracked teapot / Caldwell Dobie --
Last drive / Carlos Drake --
of Andrew Lang / Charles J. Finger --
Blade / Zona Gale --
Corputt / Tupper Greenwald --
down / Harry Hervey --
/ Leonard L. Hess --
Grudges / Hughes --
Postscript to divorce / Morris --
Forgiveness / Lizette Woodworth Reese --
red shawl / Roger Sergel --
/ A.B. Shiffrin --
generations / Ruth Sukow --
Two women and Hog-back Ridge / den Bark --
Poet / Warren L. Van Dine --
/ Glenway Wescott --
Shoes / Gilchrist Wood. Best short stories of 1925. Gift / Alexander --
Return / Sherwood Anderson --
Donovan / Nathan Asch --
honor / Barry Benefield --
Alcazar / Konrad Bercovici --
Laugh / --
Hands of the enemy / Caldwell Dobie --
City of refuge / Fisher --
Army with banners / Fullerton --
Coward's castle / Gilkyson --
How does it feel to be free? / Komroff --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
Ill wind / --
Old lady / Evelyn Scott --
Ledge / May Stanley --
/ Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Home Town / Waldman --
Fire and water / Wescott --
Devil drum / Barrett Willoughby --
revenge / Elinor Wylie. Best short stories of 1926. Snyder / Barry Benefield --
Maudie / Carver --
The glass eye of Throgmorton / Corley --
Take the stand, please / Crowell --
Bound for Rio Grande / --
Query / Henry W. Dudley --
/ Arthur H. Fauset --
Evening / Zona Gale --
Wheels / Greenwald --
The undefeated / Hemingway --
The Christian bite / Komroff --
Then Christs fought hard / Krunich --
Travelogue / Ring W. Lardner --
stone / Grace S. Mason --
Grimaldi / Meriwether --
Tale from the grave / Morris, Jr. --
Extra! Extra! / Sherwood --
Out of the wind / Daniel Steele --
The other road / Strater --
The giantsthunder / Virginia Tracy. Best short stories of 1927. Honorable the Strawberries / --
The killers / Ernest Hemingway --
/ Sherwood Anderson --
/ Harold W. Brecht --
/ Roark Bradford --
the mist / Ben Lucien Burman --
/ Elisabeth Finley-Thomas --
of sugar / Amory Hare --
Triall by armes / Hergesheimer --
The half pint flask / Heyward --
When it happens / --
North is black / Farge, 2nd --
Yarbwoman / Rose Wilder Lane --
Persephone / Sueur --
Good morning, Major / Marquand --
Cane River / Lyle Saxon --
The pawnshop / Sexton --
Little Dombey / --
In Portofino / Sullivan --
Thehound-tuner of Callaway / Raymond Weeks. Best short stories of 1928. angel / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan --
lived at the Ritz / Louis Bromfield --
apart / Katharine Brush --
passion / Morley Callaghan --
of the Three Daughters / Dorothy Canfield --
the water carrier / Maria Cristina Chambers --
Yankee / Irvin S. Cobb --
Mr. Blue / Myles Connolly --
/ Walter D. Edmonds --
mother's / Eleanor E. Harris --
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of Ypres / Llewellyn Hughes --
little girl a hand / Fannie Hurst --
armor / Edward L. McKenna --
call / Dorothy Parker --
Fences / --
On the mountain-side / Madox Roberts --
The Jew / Edwin Seaver --
sailor / James Stevens --
primitive / Ruth Suckow --
oldtimer / Edmund Ware. Best short stories of 1929. of heavan" / Sarah Addington --
Lost novel / Anderson --
Country doctor / --
"there's money in poetry / Bercovici --
Soldier Harmon / Callaghan --
Double birthday / --
Wild plums / Grace S. Coates --
peril / Walter D. Edmonds --
First oboe / Glover --
Fame for Mr. Beatty / Hall --
Power of horizon / Herald --
Azcantara / MacGregor Jenkins --
Manicure / Leech --
Potato picking / McCarty --
I have letters for Marjorie / McKenna --
Light without heat / Mullen --
"Cunjur" / Patterson --
A guilty woman / Wescott --
Venus / William Carlos Williams. Best short stories of 1930. sandy road / Ellen Bishop --
little children / Clifford Bragdon --
/ Whit Burnett --
wife / Morley Callaghan --
transgressor / Grace S. Coates --
turtle / Edythe S. Draper --
Answer / Furniss --
Blue sky / Walter Gilkyson --
/ Caroline Gordon --
Adventure / --
Happiness up the river / Hartwick --
September sailing / Kittredge --
Red coat for night / Komroff --
At the swamp / --
Little wife / William March --
civilization / Dorothy Parker --
Pidgeon / Groverneur Paukling --
Patriot / --
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter --
Schloss Ramsburg / William H. Upson. Best short stories of 1931. Enigma / --
Sound that frost makes / Barber --
Only we are barren / Bessie --
Rest cure / Kay Boyle --
Tabloid news / Bromfield --
Day in the country / --
Dorothy / Erskine Caldwell --
/ Morley Callaghan --
hurt a man / Walter D. Edmonds --
sun go down / William Faulkner --
revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Shakespeare / Martha Foley --
chariot / Guy Gilpatric --
moon mountain / Buy Gilpatric --
Mr. and Mrs. Brown / Josephine Herbst --
of the street / Paul Horgan --
Company K. / William March --
Other room / --
little stunt / George Milburn --
/ Dorothy Parker --
scholar / Allen Read --
Great hunter of the woods / Stevens --
Model house / William Hazlett Upson --
ring / Leo L. Ward --
Miracle / Elizabeth Wilson --
White Man's town / Wimberly. Best short stories of 1932. Foreigner / --
Horizon / Alvah C. Bessie --
many things / Clifford Bragdon --
Motley / Louis Brennan --
Sand / Burnett --
Sherrel / Whit Burnett --
Warm River / Caldwell --
Red hat / Morley Callaghan --
merchant / Helena Lefroy Caperton --
stranger / John Cournos --
corn / David Cornel De Jong --
Hansel / Diefenthaler --
Smoke / William Faulkner --
hat under glass / Manuel Komroff --
/ Meridel Lesueur --
Carthage / Scammon Lockwood --
meadow / William March --
and a 1, 2, 3, 4 / George Milburn --
Kimono / Morris --
Shepherd of the Lord / --
Load / Dudley Schnabel --
blue / Laurence Stallings --
chronicle / Bernhard Johann Tuting --
story / José Garcia Villa --
Quarrel / Leo L. Ward. Best short stories of 1934. / Benjamin Appel --
word / Alvah C. Bessie --
which cried / Whit Burnett --
/ Erskine Caldwell --
Fairbanks / Morley Callaghan --
the shore / Marquis W. Childs --
Amethyst / --
Crossroads woman / McKinley Corning --
Beyond / William Faulkner --
/ Rudolph Fisher --
beauty / Martha Foley --
brother comes to America / Alexander Godin --
Tom Rivers / Gordon --
The broken wheel / --
Lord of Marutea / Hall --
Cora, unashamed / Hughes --
Siege of love / --
Hamlet's dagger / Komroff --
Mother Tanner / Lineaweaver --
Winter / Dorothy McCleary --
/ Louis Mamet --
load / William March --
transfiguration / Alan Marshall --
thing / Paul Ryan --
In a park / Nahum Sabsay --
tree / Vincent Sheean --
peace / Richard Sherman --
woman / Allen Tate --
Money at home / Terrell --
Home is where you hang your childhood / Zugsmith. Best short stories of 1935. / Benjamin Appel --
Overcoat / --
Party next door / --
Suns that our hearts harden / Brown --
Division / Whit Burnett --
/ Erskine Caldwell --
son / Morley Callaghan --
Biarritz / Madelene Cole --
/ Charles Cooke --
/ David C. DeJong --
Lo! / Faulkner --
Wild nigger / Elma Godchaux --
girl / Sara Haardt --
:none / William W. Haines --
/ Nancy Hale --
Distant harbour / --
Sunday morning / McCleary --
Parish of cockroaches / McHugh --
Episode from life / --
Frozen stillness / Morang --
Mrs. Lancaster-Jones / --
Resurrection of a life / Saroyan --
This town of Salamanca / --
A boxer: old / Sylvester --
Souvenir of Arizona / Thielen --
Pair of shoes / Max White --
rain / Thomas Wolfe. Best short stories of 1936. / by Roger Burlingame --
kimono / by Morley Callaghan --
of Jefferson Street / by Dorothy Canfield --
The hunch / Carr --
Catafalque / by Charles Cooke --
wind doth blow / by Evan Coombes --
fine / by William Faulkner --
happened to me / by Michael Fessier --
darkness / by S.S. Field --
/ by Roy Flannagan --
sweet simplicity / by Martha Foley --
country / by Walter Gilkyson --
are a story / by Elizabeth Hall --
gaiety and laughter / by Frank K. Kelly --
family take a ride / by Karlton Kelm --
goddess Fame / by Manuel Komroff --
sunset / by Erling Larsen --
/ by Meridel Le Sueur --
The shroud / McCleary --
Man on a road / Maltz --
The grave / by Katherine Anne Porter --
nothing / by Roaldus Richmond --
harmonica / by Allan Seager --
the day of a writer / by Tess Slesinger --
salesman / by Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas --
mustydines was ripe / by Howell Vines --
nocturne / by Robert Whitehand --
sidewalk / by Calvin Williams --
pioneer / by William E. Wilson --
dead know Brooklyn / by Thomas Wolfe. Best short stories of 1937. won the war / by Robert Buckner --
equation / by Roger Burlingame --
out / by Morley Callaghan --
/ to her, Alexandra / Cooke --
Fool about a horse / Faulkner --
Goodbye to Cap'm John / Field --
Glory, glory, hallelujah! / Foley --
Chains / by Elma Godchaux --
The poet / Halper --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Hemingway --
Homecoming / by Edward Harris Heth --
and the nun / by Paul Horgan --
with the flaxen hair / by Manuel Komroff --
and the destination / by David E. Krantz --
/ by Harry Harrison Kroll --
of Mr. S. Yamamoto / by R.H. Linn --
and Tatty weeps / by Ursula MacDougall --
you dismay / By Allen McGinnis --
sun will shine / by William March --
grass / by Edita Morris --
orders / by I.V. Morris --
Order / by Katherine Anne Porter --
to Bali / by Ellis St. Joseph --
/ by William Saroyan --
Hair / Stuart --
Lieutenant Pearson / Theilen --
The Iron City / Thompson --
Arrival on a holiday / Wright --
Room in the world / Zugsmith. Best short stories of 1938. / Robert Ayre --
buff / Libby Benedict --
Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Mergenthwirker's lobblies / Bond --
Cheat's remorse / Callaghan --
Brothers / John Cheever --
is that I was in a hurry / Vladimir Cherkasski --
Fessheimer / Whitfield Cook --
such liars / Cook, Whitfield --
concrete / Pietro di Donato --
and lightning / Michael Fessier --
/ Alberta Pierson Hannum --
is outside / Manuel Komroff --
Girl / Sueur --
She always wanted shoes / --
Little bride / McCleary --
Last meeting / March --
To those who wait / --
Spaniard / Prudencia de Pereda --
idyll / Frederick Prokosch --
American fellow / George Thorp Rayner --
palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --
summer sun / Mark Schorer --
Pro arte / --
Chrysanthemums / Steinbeck --
Huey, the engineer / --
Amateurs / Harvey B. Swados --
gift / Robert Penn Warren --
the three ladies / Eudora Welty --
highway / Ira Wolfert. Best short stories of 1941. girl / E.B. Ashton --
the town / Stephen Benet --
Handy / Caldwell --
Big Jules / Morley Callaghan --
Net / Coates --
Mamma is a lady / DeJong --
To the least / --
Nun no more / John Fante --
Gold is not always / Faulkner --
"Color trouble" / Garfinkel --
Magic wire / Felicia Gizycka --
the man, dear / Justine Herman --
mind / Weldon Kees --
White bull / Mary King --
are just plumb crazy / Arthur Kober --
company / Christopher La Farge --
doomed / Meyer Levin --
wrong / Roderick Lull --
morning on Twentieth street / --
Ill-winds from the wide world / --
Three swimmers and the educated grocer / Saroyan --
Triumph of justice / --
Butcher / Wilma Shore --
town / Wallace Stegner --
Love / --
Psychologist / Thieslen --
Houdini / Jerome Weidman --
/ George Weller --
/ Richard Wright. Best short stories of 1949 Mighty, mighty pretty / --
The vacation / Biddle, Jr. --
The farmer's children / Bishop --
Under the sky / --
My father and the circus / Brookhouser --
Exodus / Borden Deal --
/ Adele Dolokhov --
hound / Ward Dorrance --
million / Henry Gregor Felsen --
of Hubbard / Robert Gibbons --
of time / Beatrice Griffith --
home / Elizabeth Hardwick --
snow / Joseph Heller --
the night / Ruth Herschberger --
Jerry / --
Of the river and Uncle Pidcock / Kjelgaard --
Footnote to American history / Lull --
The vault / T.D. Mabry --
Vacia / Agnes Macdonald --
The men / --
The heifer / Patrick Morgan --
prisoners here / Irving Pfeffer --
house remembered / John Rogers --
knew / J.D. Salinger --
no number / Alfredo Segre --
for my friends / Madelon Shapiro --
bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford --
isles / Jessamyn West --
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American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. Best short stories of 1959. Jawaharlal and the three cadavers / John Berry--
Winter term / Sallie Bingham --
of stone / Frank Butler --
/ John Cheever --
Getaway / Coates --
Iowan's curse / Finney --
Mrs. Mean / William H. Gass --
life of the boss / Hugh Geesline, Jr. --
like / Herbert Gold --
tropical minor key / Frank Holwerda --
/ Bernard Malamud --
society / Howard Nemerov --
4 / Leo Rosten --
Conversion of the Jews / --
Birthday present / --
Man in the toolhouse / Swados --
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time / --
Gift from the city / --
Buck in Trotevale's / Williams --
Window / Ethel Wilson --
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Best short stories of 1960. The Santa Ana / Sanora Babb--
The day of the bullet / Ellin --
Words words words / Elliott --
The man who looked like Jesus / --
August / Mavis Gallant --
performance / George Garrett --
running / John Graves --
The ledge / Sargent Hall --
The purchase / Hardwick --
The hunter / Lachlan MacDonald --
shoes / Bernard Malamud --
you any more / Arthur Miller --
characters / Howard Nemerov --
hereof / Roberts --
Defender of the faith / --
The man who lost the sea / Sturgeon --
A glance in the mirror / Swados --
Who was Jesse's friend and protector? / --
Counterclockwise / Larsh Young --
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1961. This morning, this evening, so soon / JamesBaldwin --
The listener / --
Berceuse / Alfred Chester --
sorrow of Henry Pimber / W.H. Gass --
The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown / Ivan Gold --
Inheritance / William Goyen --
self-made brain surgeon / Mark Harris --
vestibule / Kaatje Hurlbut --
Walter / Theodore Jacobs --
beret / Mary Lavin --
Confusions / Jack Ludwig --
hayride / Willard Marsh --
marriage / St. Claire McKelway --
Society / Olive --
Tell me a riddle / --
Night in funland / Peden --
Entropy / Thomas Pynchon --
colleagues of Mr. Chips / Samuel Sandmel --
when last seen / Peter Taylor --
of flight / Ellington White --
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1969. The eldest child / Maeve Brennan --
Play like I'm sheriff / Jack Cady --
Murphy's Xmas / Mark Costello --
Walking wounded / John Bart Gerald --
The foreigner in the blood / Mary Gray Hughes --
The boy in the green hat / Norma Klein --
Happiness / Mary Lavin --
The boat / Alistair MacLeod --
The day the flowers came / David Madden --
Pictures of Fidelman / Bernard Malamud --
Porkchops with whiskey and ice cream / Matthew W. McGregor --
Gold coast / James Alan McPherson --
The inheritance of Emmy One Horse / John R. Milton --
By the river / Joyce Carol Oates --
The visitation / Nancy Pelletier Pansing --
Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams / Sylvia Plath --
Paper poppy / Miriam Rugel --
The tea bowl of Ninsei Nomura / Margaret Shipley --
The colony / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Benjamen burning / Joyce Madelon Winslow --
Biographical notes --
The yearbook of the American short story --
Roll of honor, 1968 --
Distinctive short stories in American magazines, 1968 --
Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1970. With no breeze / Jack Cady --
The flashlight / Eldridge Cleaver --
The magic poker / Robert Coover --
The other child / Olivia Davis --
If they knew Yvonne / Andre Dubus --
Blood letting / John Bart Gerald --
Tonight at nine thirty-six / Alfred Gillespie --
The forest / Ella Leffland --
Another story / Jack Matthews --
The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel / William Maxwell --
Green grass, blue sky, white house / Wright Morris --
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates --
The flag is down / Paul Olsen --
Yiddish in America / Cynthia Ozick --
In the Land of the Morning Calm, déjà vu / Jules Siegel --
The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Porque no tiene, porque le falta / Robert Stone --
Daphne's lover / Peter Taylor --
The ninth cold day / Rosine Weisbrod --
Biographical notes --
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Roll of honor, 1969 --
Distinctive short stories in American magazines, 1969 --
Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1971. With Ché in New Hampshire / Russell Banks --
Dotson Gerber resurrected / Hal Bennett --
The widow, bereft / James Blake --
I take care of things / Jack Cady --
Barbed wire / Robert Canzoneri --
The chicken which became a rat / Albert Drake --
The dancing boy / William Eastlake --
Pain was my portion / Beth Harvor --
No trace / David Madden --
Diesel / Don Mitchell --
The decline and fall of Officer Fergerson / Marion Montgomery --
Magic / Wright Morris --
The gift bearer / Philip F. O'Connor --
Requa I / Tillie Olsen --
Shirt talk / Ivan Prashker --
In late youth / Norman Rush --
The somebody / Danny Santiago --
Xavier Fereira's unfinished book: chapter one / Jonathan Strong --
The Klausners / Leonard Tushnet --
Bloodflowers / W.D. Valgardson --
The suitor / L. Woiwode --
Biographical notes --
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Roll of honor, 1970 --
Distinctive short stories, 1970 --
Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1972. Gold / M.F. Beal --
The World War I Los Angeles airplane / Richard Brautigan --
Covenant / Kelly Cherry --
A death on the East Side / Herbert Gold --
The supremacy of the Hunza / Joanne Greenberg --
The breadman / Mary Heath --
Drums again / Edward M. Holmes --
The judge / Mary Gray Hughes --
In black and white / Ann Jones --
Three Washington stories / Ward Just --
His day out / Roberta Kalechofsky --
The further adventures of Brunhild / Rebecca Kavaler --
Fox and swan / John L'Heureux --
Intimacy / Ralph Maloney --
The Aesculapians / Marvin Mandell --
The Dock-witch / Cynthia Ozick --
The vacation / Joe Ashby Porter --
The magic apple / Penelope Street --
Meet me in the green glen / Robert Penn Warren --
Stealing cars / Theodore Weesner --
The guns in the closet / Jose Yglesias --
Biographical notes --
The yearbook of the American short story --
Roll of honor, 1971 --
Distinctive short stories, 1971 --
Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1973. A city of churches / Donald Barthelme --
The slightest distance / Henry Bromell --
The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever --
Cambridge is sinking! / John J. Clayton --
Old men dream dreams, young men see visions / John William Corrington --
Robot / Guy Davenport --
The death of Sun / William Eastlake --
The real meaning of the Faust legend / Alvin Greenberg --
In the words of / Julie Hayden --
The habits of the animals: the progress of the seasons / George V. Higgins --
Burns / Ward Just --
Going home / James S. Kenary --
The way we went / Wallace E. Knight --
The broken wings / Konstantinos Lardas --
The silver bullet / James Alan McPherson --
God's wrath / Bernard Malamud --
Silkie / Joyce Carol Oates --
Mothers / Sylvia Plath --
Come away, oh human child / Erik Sandberg-Diment --
Country of the painted freaks / David Shetzline --
Happy August the 10th / Tennessee Williams --
Biographical notes --
The yearbook of the American short story. Roll of honor, 1972 
 Distinctive short stories, 1972 --
Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1974. The deserter / Agnes Boyer --
Beginnings / Jerry Bumpus --
A summer in Puerto Rico / Eleanor Clark --
The party / Pat M. Esslinger-Carr --
Mansion, magic, and miracle / Lewis B. Horne --
Down the American River / Rose Graubart Ignatow --
Opening the door on Sixty-second Street / Maxine Kumin --
Tom / Mary Lavin --
A family affair / John L'Heureux --
The chamber music evening / Phillip Lopate --
The tide and Isaac Bates / Stephen Minot --
Letter from Sakaye / Beverly Mitchell --
Dog in the manger / Michael Rothschild --
Calloway's climb / Peter L. Sandberg --
Isn't today the day? / William Saroyan --
The gray / Philip H. Schneider --
Old Vemish / Barry Targan --
Son / John Updike --
Honeymoon / Arturo Vivante --
The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff / Alice Walker. 1975. The lie / Russell Banks --
The school / Donald Barthelme --
How to win / Rosellen Brown --
Desert matinee / Jerry Bumpus --
Bambi meets the Furies / Frederick Busch --
Waiting for astronauts / Nancy Chaikin --
Paths unto the dead / Mary Clearman --
Tyranny / Lyll Becerra de Jenkins --
Cadence / Andre Dubus --
Big Boy / Jesse Hill Ford --
The spirit in me / William Hoffman --
The analyst / Evan Hunter --
How Jerem came home / Paul Kaser --
The lost salt gift of blood / Alistair MacLeod --
The burial / Jack Matthews --
The Howard Parker Montcrief hoax / Eugene McNamara --
Night and day at Panacea / Reynolds Price --
Polonaise / Abraham Rothberg --
Lullaby / Leslie Silko --
The man who lived / Barry Targan --
The American sickness / Jose Yglesias. 1976. Roses, rhododendron / Alice Adams --
Terminal procedure / M. Pabst Battin --
The boy who was Astrid's mother / Mae Seidman Briskin --
Beautiful, helpless animals / Nancy Chaikin --
The actes and monuments / John William Corrington --
A chronicle of love / H.E. Francis --
Pontius Pilate / John Hagge --
Dietz at war / Ward Just --
John Henry's home / John McCluskey --
Grubbing for roots / Stephen Minot --
Looking into nothing / Kent Nelson --
A mercenary / Cynthia Ozick --
Broad day / Reynolds Price --
Wondermonger / Michael Rothschild --
Surviving adverse seasons / Barry Targan --
The hand of Emmagene / Peter Taylor --
The man who loved extinct mammals / John Updike. 1978. Skaters on wood / Leslie Epstein --
The translation / Joyce Carol Oates --
A good loser / Elizabeth Cullinan --
Verona: a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey --
The Schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin --
In the Miro district / Peter Taylor --
The blacktop champion of Ickey Honey / Robert T. Sorrells --
Main Street morning / Natalie L.M. Petesch --
Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California / Max Schott --
Psychopolis / Ian McEwan --
By the yellow lake / Peter Marsh --
The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin --
Redemption / John Gardner --
Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
The windmill man / Tim McCarthy --
Telling the bees / L. Hluchan Sintetos --
Bromeliads / Joy Williams --
Two scenes / Jane Bowles --
Decades / Gilbert Sorrentino --
In Miami, last winter / James Kaplan --
The return of service / Jonathan Baumbach --
Staus / Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel. 1979. A silver dish / Saul Bellow --
An exile in the East / Flannery O'Connor --
Home and native land / Seán Virgo --
A short walk into afternoon / Kaatje Hurlbut --
Shadrach / William Styron --
The wedding week / Rosellen Brown --
A party in Miami Beach / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The quail / Rolf Yngve --
Some Manhattan in New England / Peter LaSalle --
Plaisir d'amour / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
Falling off the scaffold / Lyn Coffin --
Spelling / Alice Munro --
Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin --
Living alone / Robley Wilson, Jr. --
The middle place / Mary Hedin --
The quarterback speaks to his God / Herbert Wilner --
Trip in a summer dress / Annette Sanford --
The eye / Paul Bowles --
Paper covers rock / Jean Thompson --
The missing person / Maxine Kumin --
Finisterre / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. --
A lingering death / Silvia Tennenbaum --
Home is the hero / Bernard Malamud --
The new music / Donald Barthelme --
Something that happened / Jayne Anne Phillips. 1980. The emerald / Donald Barthelme --
Long calls / Frederick Busch --
The one-star Jew / David Evanier --
The remission / Mavis Gallant --
Speck's idea / Mavis Gallant --
The old folks / William H. Gass --
In case of survival / T. Gertler --
The faithful / Elizabeth Hardwick --
The first clean fact / Larry Heinemann --
Into the wind / Robert Henderson --
Lemon tree / Curt Johnson --
Friends / Grace Paley --
Home / James Robison --
Mama Tuddi done over / Leon Rooke --
At the Anarchist's Convention / John Sayles --
The safe deposit / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Dr. Cahn's visit / Richard Stern --
The rags of time / Barry Targan --
The old forest / Peter Taylor --
Gesturing / John Updike --
Markowitz and the gypsies / Norman Waksler --
Hog's heart / Gordon Weaver. 1981. Idea of Switzerland / Walter Abish --
Small island republics / Max Apple --
Winter: 1978 / Ann Beattie --
Working day / Robert Coover --
Moth and the primrose / Vincent G. Dethier --
Winter father / Andre Dubus --
Assembly / Mavis Gallant --
Bookseller / Elizabeth Hardwick --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Future / Joseph McElroy --
Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath --
Mountains where Cithaeron is / Amelia Moseley --
Wood / Alice Munro --
Presque Isle / Joyce Carol Oates --
Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
St. Anthony chorale / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. --
Wissler remembers / Richard Stern --
Ice / Elizabeth Tallent --
Still of some use / John Updike --
Change / Larry Woiwode. 1982. Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Dancing ducks and talking anus / James Ferry --
Courtship of Widow Sobcek / Joanna Higgins --
Good rockin' tonight / William Hauptmann --
Shelter the pilgrim / Fred Licht --
Coach / Mary Robison --
Exchange value / Charles Johnson --
K. 590 / Nicholson Baker --
Dolphin story / Joyce Renwick --
Continental heart / Lissa McLaughlin --
Cafe de Paris / Roberta Gupta --
Power of language is such that even a single word taken truly to heart can change everything / Alvin Greenberg --
Gift horse's mouth / R. E. Smith --
Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter --
Coming over / Edith Milton --
Girl who was no kin to the Marshalls / Anne Hobson Freeman --
Prize tomatoes / Anne F. Rosner --
Proud monster--sketches / Ian MacMillan --
Lamb says / Rosanne Coggeshall --
Theft / Joyce Carol Oates. 1983. Hard to be Good / Bill Barich --
The Dignity of Life / Carol Bly --
A Change of Season / James Bond --
Where I'm Calling From / Raymond Carver --
Ollie, Oh ... / Carolyn Chute --
My Mistress / Laurie Colwin --
The Count and the Princess / Joseph Epstein --
Scales / Louise Erdrich --
The Professor's Houses / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Graveyard Day / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Victrola / Wright Morris --
Reunion / Julie Schumacher --
Best Quality Glass Company, New York / Sharon Sheehe Stark --
Colorado / Robert Taylor, Jr. --
Starlight / Marian Thurn --
Deaths of Distant Friends / John Updike --
Reunion / Guy Vanderhaeghe --
Beebee / Diane Vreuls --
Firstborn / Larry Woiwode. 1984. Final proof of fate and circumstance / Lee K. Abbott --
Naked lady / Madison Smartt Bell --
Unknown feathers / Dianne Benedict --
In the red room / Paul Bowles --
Cure / Mary Ward Brown --
Gent / Rick DeMarinis --
Father's story / Andre Dubus --
Lena / Mavis Gallant --
Inexorable progress / Mary Hood --
Artificial moonlight / Donald Justice --
Morrison's reaction / Stephen Kirk --
Thorofare / Susan Minot --
Glimpse into another country / Wright Morris --
Nairobi / Joyce Carol Oates --
Rosa / Cynthia Ozick --
Cold room / Lowry Pei --
Things to be thrown away / Jonathan Penner --
Bruns / Norman Rush --
Foreign shores / James Salter --
Caddie's Day / Jeanne Schinto. 1985. Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks --
Dogs' lives / Michael Bishop --
Emperor of the air / Ethan Canin --
Leather Man / E. L. Doctorow --
Roses / Margaret Edwards --
Walking, walking / Starkey Flythe --
Sudden trees / H. E. Francis --
You've come a long way, Mickey Mouse / Bev Jafek --
Clothing / John L'Heureux --
Piano tuner / Peter Meinke --
Fellow-creatures / Wright Morris --
Angela / Bharati Mukherjee --
City of boys / Beth Nugent --
Raven's Wing / Joyce Carol Oates --
Instruments of seduction / Norman Rush --
Secrets / Deborah Seabrooke --
Gittel / Marjorie Sandor --
Lily / Jane Smiley --
Johnstown Polka / Sharon Sheehe Stark --
Skater / Joy Williams. 1986. Publisher's note --
Introduction / Raymond Carver --
Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme --
Gryphon / Charles Baxter --
Janus / Ann Beattie --
The convict / James Lee Burke --
Star food / Ethan Canin --
Gossip / Frank Conroy --
Communist / Richard Ford --
Bad company / Tess Gallagher --
Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel --
Doe season / David Michael Kaplan --
Three thousand dollars / David Lipsky --
Sportsmen / Thomas McGuane --
All my relations / Christopher McIlroy --
Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux / Alice Munro --
Skin angels / Jessica Neely --
Invisible life / Kent Nelson --
Telling / Grace Paley --
Lawns / Mona Simpson --
Health / Joy Williams --
The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --
Biographical notes --
100 other distinguished short stories of the year 1985 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1987. Way we live now / Susan Sontag --
Afterlife / John Updike --
Prince / Craig Nova --
Favor / Elizabeth Tallent --
Kingdom come / Mavis Gallant --
Lover of women / Sue Miller --
Lie detector / Madison Smartt Bell --
Circle of prayer / Alice Munro --
Dreams of distant lives / Lee K. Abbott --
Men under water / Ralph Lombreglia --
Boxes / Raymond Carver --
Tenant / Bharati Mukherjee --
Blue men / Joy Williams --
Private debts/ Public holdings / Kent Haruf --
How I found my brother / Charles Baxter --
Other Miller / Tobias Wolfe --
Lady of Spain / Robert Taylor --
Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud: a story / Daniel Stern --
Milk / Ron Carlson --
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien. 1988. Banana boats / Mary Ann Taylor-Hall --
Cats and students, bubbles and abysses / Rick Bass --
Way to the dump / E.S. Goldman --
Still life with insects / Brian Kiteley --
Police dreams / Richard Bausch --
Water-faucet vision / Gish Jen --
Dede / Mavis Gallant --
Natural father / Robert Lacy --
Snares / Louise Erdrich --
Errand / Raymond Carver --
Inn essence / Ralph Lombreglia --
Entrechat / Edith Milton --
Taming power of the small / Will Blythe --
Waiting for trains / Richard Currey --
Wonderland / C.S. Godshalk --
No friends, all strangers / Lucy Honig --
Smorgasbord / Tobias Wolff --
Still life / Marjorie Sandor --
Victoria / Hilding Johnson --
Helping / Robert Stone. 1989. Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter --
Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell --
Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell --
Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd --
Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown --
Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch --
White angel / Michael Cunningham --
Flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis --
Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr --
Concert party / Mavis Gallant --
Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover --
Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy --
Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan --
Displacement / David Wong Louie --
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
Meneseteung / Alice Munro --
What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips --
Strays / Mark Richard --
Boy on the train / Arthur Robinson --
Letter writer / M.T. Sharif. 1990. Publisher's note --
Introduction / Richard Ford --
River of toys / Edward Allen --
The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch --
A kind of simple, happy grace / Richard Bausch --
Finding Natasha / Madison Smartt Bell --
The wizard / C.S. Godshalk --
The secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley --
How to talk to a hunter / Pam Houston --
Mr. Morning / Siri Hustvedt --
Car-crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson --
Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland --
Eisenheim the illusionist / Steven Millhauser --
You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore --
Differently / Alice Munro --
Wigtime / Alice Munro --
Typical / Padgett Powell --
The reverse bug / Lore Segal --
Prowler / Elizabeth Tallent --
In a father's place / Christopher Tilghman --
Commuter marriage / Joan Wickersham --
The little winter / Joy Williams --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1989 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1991. Legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass --
The disappeared / Charles Baxter --
Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom --
Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman --
The trip back / Robert Olen Butler --
The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr.--
Oil and water / Millicent Dillon --
Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr --
The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg --
Separation / Mary Gordon --
The body shop / Elizabeth Graver --
Houdini / Siri Hustvedt --
Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel --
Glossolalia / David Jauss --
Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels --
Willing / Lorrie Moore --
Friend of my youth / Alice Munro --
American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates --
Dog stories / Francine Prose --
A Sandstone farmhouse / John Updike. 1992. Foreword --
Introduction / Robert Stone --
The last lovely city / Alice Adams --
Days of heaven / Rick Bass --
A different kind of imperfection / Thomas Beller --
Silver water / Amy Bloom --
A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert O. Butler --
Across the bridge / Mavis Gallant --
Same place, same things / Tim Gautreaux --
Emergency / Denis Johnson --
The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones --
JunHee / Marshall N. Klimasewiski --
Community life / Lorrie Moore --
Carried away / Alice Munro --
Is laughter contagious? / Joyce Carol Oates --
The fare to the moon / Reynolds Price --
It's come to this / Annick Smith --
The way people run / Christopher Tilghman --
Forever overhead / David Foster Wallace --
Under the roof / Kate Wheeler --
The golden darters / Elizabeth Winthrop --
Firelight / Tobias Wolff --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories 1991 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1993. Foreword --
Introduction / Louise Erdrich --
Playing with dynamite / John Updike --
The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill --
A real life / Alice Munro --
Silent passengers / Larry Woiwode --
Queen Wintergreen / Alice Fulton --
The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore / Harlan Ellison --
Poltergeists / Jane Shapiro --
Red moccasins / Susan Power --
I want to live! / Thom Jones --
Charlotte / Tony Early --
What the thunder said / Janet Peery --
Naked ladies / Antonya Nelson --
Man, woman and boy / Stephen Dixon --
Winter barley / Andrea Lee --
Concerning mold upon the skin, etc. / Joanna Scott --
Pray without ceasing / Wendell Berry --
Gold / Kim Edwards --
Great Barrier Reef / Diane Johnson --
Terrific mother / Lorrie Moore --
The important houses / Mary Gordon --
Contributor's notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1992 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1994. Foreword --
Introduction / Tobias Wolff --
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie --
Hammam / Carol Anshaw --
Salem / Robert Olen Butler --
Pipa's story / Lan Samantha Chang --
Where I work / Ann Cummins --
In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark --
We didn't / Stuart Dybek --
The prophet from Jupiter / Tony Earley --
Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell --
The voyage out / John Rolfe Gardiner --
The mail lady / David Gates --
Nicodemus bluff / Barry Hannah --
Cold snap / Thom Jones --
The chasm / John Keeble --
Landscape and dream / Nancy Krusoe --
Fur / Laura Glen Louis --
Melungeons / Chris Offutt --
Mr. Sumarsono / Roxana Robinson --
Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard --
Things left undone / Christopher Tilghman --
From Shanghai / Jonathan Wilson --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1993 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1995. Foreword --
Introduction / Jane Smiley --
Orientation / Daniel Orozco --
Way down deep in the jungle / Thom Jones --
The stucco house / Ellen Gilchrist --
A night's work / Jaimy Gordon --
Pity / Avner Mandelman --
Leg / Steven Polansky --
The ugliest house in the world / Peter Ho Davies --
Birthmates / Gish Jen --
The drownings / Edward J. Delaney --
Honored guest / Joy Williams --
The behavior of the hawkweeds / Andrea Barrett --
Hand jive / Andrew Cozine --
So I guess you know what I told him / Stephen Doybyns --
Undertow / Jennifer C. Cornell --
Pagan night / Kate Braverman --
First, body / Melaine Rae Thon --
The Angel Esmeralda / Don DeLillo --
The artist / Edward Falco --
Chiromancy / Max Garland --
Xuela / Jamaica Kincaid --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1994 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 1996. Foreword --
Introduction / John Edgar Wideman --
Complicities / Alice Adams --
Fires / Rick Bass --
Driving the heart / Jason Brown --
Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler --
The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang --
Fitting ends / Dan Chaon --
The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies --
Ysrael / Junot Diaz --
Sleep / Stephen Dixon --
Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek --
The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan --
Intertextuality / Mary Gordon --
Past my future / David Huddle --
Bright winter / Anna Keesey --
In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid --
Shades / William Henry Lewis --
A stand of fables / William Lychack --
Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates --
Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos --
Some say the world / Susan Perabo --
The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma --
All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson --
Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1995 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories. 1997. Manners and Right Behavior : Saboteur / Ha Jin --
Under the pitons / Robert Stone --
Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke --
Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen --
Identifying the Stranger : Transactions / Michelle Cliff --
Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch --
Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick --
Eternal love / Karen E. Bender --
A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels --
St. Martin / Lydia Davis --
Perceived Social Values : Fiesta, 1980 / Junot D'iaz --
From Willow Temple / Donald Hall --
Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle --
Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton --
Missing women / June Spence --
Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides --
Soon / Pam Durban --
Rites of Passage : Shipmates down under / Michael Byers --
Powder / Tobias Wolff --
Search Bay / Alyson Hagy --
Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux. 1998. Foreword --
Introduction / Garrison Keillor --
Appetites / Kathryn Chetkovich --
The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue / Poe Ballantine --
Body Language / Diane Schoemperlen --
Chance / Edith Pearlman --
Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma --
Elvis has left the building / Carol Anshaw --
Every night for a thousand years / Chris Adrian --
Flower children / Maxine Swann --
Glory goes and gets some / Emily Carter --
The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx --
Morphine / Doran Larson --
Mr. Sweetly Indecent / Bliss Broyard --
My father on the verge of disgrace / John Updike --
Penance / Matthew Crain --
People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore --
Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer --
Unified front / Antonya Nelson --
Wayne in love / Padgett Powell --
Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux --
Would you know it wasn't love / Hester Kaplan --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1997 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 2000. Foreword --
Introduction / E.L. Doctorow --
Black Elvis / Geoffrey Becker --
The story / Amy Bloom --
The beautiful days / Michael Byers --
The ordinary son / Ron Carlson --
Call if you need me / Raymond Carver --
Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport --
Nilda / Junot D'iaz --
The gilgul of Park Avenue / Nathan Englander --
The fix / Percival Everett --
Good for the soul / Tim Gautreaux --
He's at the office / Allan Gurganus --
Blind Jozef Pronek / Aleksandar Hemon --
The anointed / Kathleen Hill --
The bridegroom / Ha Jin --
The thing around them / Marilyn Krysl --
The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Pet fly / Walter Mosley --
Brownies / ZZ Packer --
Allog / Edith Pearlman --
People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx --
Basil the dog / Frances Sherwood --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1999 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 2001. Foreword --
Introduction / Barbara Kingsolver --
Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett --
The fireman / Rick Bass --
Think of England / Peter Ho Davies --
Labors of the heart / Claire Davis --
The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver --
After cowboy chicken came to town / Ha Jin --
Brothers and sisters around the world / Andrea Lee --
Boys / Rick Moody --
Rug weaver / Barbara Klein Moss --
Post and beam / Alice Munro --
The raft / Peter Orner --
Betty Hutton / Roy Parvin --
Illumination / Nancy Reisman --
The secrets of bats / Jess Row --
Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford --
My mother's garden / Katherine Shonk --
What I saw from where I stood / Marisa Silver --
The apple tree / Trevanian --
Personal archeology / John Updike --
My baby ... / Dorothy West --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2000 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories. 2002. Foreword --
Introduction / Sue Miller --
Along the frontage road / Michael Chabon --
The sugar-tit / Carolyn Cooke --
The red ant house / Ann Cummins --
Seven / Edwidge Danticat --
A house on the plains / E.L. Doctorow --
Puppy / Richard Ford --
The heifer / Melissa Hardy --
Zilkowski's theorem / Karl Iagnemma --
Nobody's business / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Digging / Beth Lordan --
In case we're separated / Alice Mattison --
Billy goats / Jill McCorkle --
Watermelon days / Tom McNeal --
Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels --
Bulldog / Arthur Miller --
The rug / Meg Mullins --
Family furnishings / Alice Munro --
Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma --
Love and hydrogen / Jim Shepard --
Aftermath / Mary Yukari Waters --
Contributor's notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2001 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazine publishing short stories. 2003. Rationing / Mary Yukari Waters --
Mines / Susan Straight --
Coins / Mona Simpson --
Heaven Lake / Jess Row --
Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau --
Ghost knife / Sharon Pomerantz --
Marie-Ange's ginen / Marilene Phipps --
Moriya / Dean Paschal --
Every tongue shall confess / ZZ Packer --
Future emergencies / Nicole Krauss --
Devotion / Adam Haslett --
Why the sky turns red when the sun goes down / Ryan Harty --
Shamengwa / Louise Erdrich --
The shell collector / Anthony Doerr --
Baby Wilson / E.L. Doctorow --
Night talkers / Edwidge Danticat --
Johnny Hamburger / Rand Richards Cooper --
The bees / Dan Chaon --
Space / Kevin Brockmeier --
Compassion / Dorothy Allison. 2004. What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie --
Tooth and claw / T. Corahessan Boyle --
Written in stone / Catherine Brady --
Accomplice / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Screenwriter / Charles D'Ambrosio --
Breasts / Stuart Dybek --
Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg --
Grace / Paula Fox --
Tutor / Nell Freudenberger --
Rich man / Edward P. Jones --
Limestone diner / Trudy Lewis --
Intervention / Jill McCorkle --
Gallatin Canyon / Thomas McGuane --
Runaway / Alice Munro --
All Saints Day / Angela Pneuman --
What kind of furniture would Jesus pick? / Annie Proulx --
Docent / R.T. Smith --
Walk with Elizanne / John Updike --
Mirror studies / Mary Yukari Waters --
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence / John Edgar Wideman. 2005. Introduction / Michael Chabon --
The smile on happy Chang's face / Tom Perrotta --
Until Gwen / Dennis Lehane --
A taste of dust / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
Old friends / Thomas McGuane --
Eight pieces for the left hand / J. Robert Lennon --
Stone animals / Kelly Link --
First four measures / Nathaniel Bellows --
The scheme of things / Charles D'Ambrosio --
Silence / Alice Munro --
Death defier / Tom Bissell --
The girls / Joy Williams --
Anda's game / Cory Doctorow --
Simple exercises for the beginning student / Alix Ohlin --
Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones --
The secret goldfish / David Means --
The cousins / Joyce Carol Oates --
Natasha / David Bezmozgis --
Hart and boot / Tim Pratt --
Justice Shiva Ram Murthy / Rishi Reddi --
Bohemians / George Saunders. 2006. Introduction / Ann Patchett --
Once the shore / Paul Yoon --
Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff --
The ambush / Donna Tartt --
Secret / Maxine Swann --
Dominion / Mark Slouka --
So much for Artemis / Patrick Ryan --
Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy --
Self-reliance / Edith Pearlman --
The view from Castle Rock / Alice Munro --
Tattooizm / Kevin Moffett --
Cowboy / Thomas McGuane --
The dog / Jack Livings --
After a life / Yiyun Li --
The conductor / Aleksander Hemon --
Today I'm yours / Mary Gaitskill --
How we avenged the Blums / Nathan Englander --
Grandmother's nose / Robert Coover --
A new gravestone for an old grave / David Bezmozgis --
The casual car pool / Katherine Bell --
Mr. Nobody at all / Anne Beattie with Harry Mathews. 2007. Pa's darling / Louis Auchincloss --
Toga party / John Barth --
Solid wood / Ann Beattie --
Balto / T.C. Boyle --
Riding the doghouse / Randy DeVita --
My brother Eli / Joseph Epstein --
Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay --
Eleanor's music / Mary Gordon --
L. DeBard and Aliette, a love story / Lauren Groff --
Wake / Beverly Jensen --
Wait / Roy Kesey --
Findings & impressions / Stellar Kim --
Allegiance / Aryn Kyle --
Boy in Zaquitos / Bruce McAllister --
Dimension / Alice Munro --
Bris / Eileen Pollack --
St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / Karen Russell --
Horseman / Richard Russo --
Sans farine / Jim Shepard --
Do something / Kate Walbert. 2008. Introduction / by Salman Rushdie --
Admiral / T.C. Boyle --
The year of silence / Kevin Brockmeier --
Galatea / Karen Brown --
Man and wife / Katie Chase --
Virgins / Danielle Evans --
Closely held / Allegra Goodman --
May we be forgiven / A.M. Homes --
From the desk of Daniel Varsky / Nicole Krauss --
The king of sentences / Jonathan Lethem --
The worst you ever feel / Rebecca Makkai --
The wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser --
Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin --
Child's play / Alice Munro --
Buying Lenin / Miroslav Penkov --
Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell --
Puppy / George Saunders --
Quality of life / Christine Sneed --
Missionaries / Bradford Tice --
Straightaway / Mark Wisniewski --
Bible / Tobias Wolff. 2009. Introduction / Alice Sebold --
The idiot President / Daniel Alarcon --
Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt --
Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein --
A shadow table / Alice Fulton --
NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld --
The farms / Eleanor Henderson --
Sagittarius / Grek Hrbek --
Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson --
The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta --
A man like him / Yiyun Li --
The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai --
Magic words / Jill McCorkle --
One dog year / Kevin Moffett --
Modulation / Richard Powers --
Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx --
Into the gorge / Ron Rash --
Ostracon / Alex Rose --
The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford --
Muzungu / Namwali Serpell --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2008 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.