Introduction - Jackson R. Bryer"The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever - Lee K. Abbott"A Father''s Story" by Andre Dubus - Elliot Ackerman"Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams - Julia Alvarez"Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles - Rilla Askew"A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg - Andrea Barrett"The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett - Richard Bausch"Consolation" by Richard Bausch - Ann Beattie"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty - Doris Betts"How Can I Tell You?" by John O''Hara - Frederick Busch"Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson - Maud Casey"No One''s a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Alan Cheuse"Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault - Kate Christensen"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver - Susan Coll"The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud - Nicholas Delbanco"Dare''s Gift" by Ellen Glasgow - R. H. W. Dillard"The Things They Carried" by Tim O''Brien - Ellen Douglas"In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway - Andre Dubus"Like Life" by Lorrie Moore - Pamela Erens"Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom''s Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O''Connor - A. R.
Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravlefft" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom''s Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O''Connor - A.
R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleffzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H.
Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - t" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom''s Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O''Connor - A. R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F.
Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravlefft" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom''s Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O''Connor - A. R.
Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleffzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E.
Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - zyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny''s Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D.
Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravlefft" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom''s Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O''Connor - A. R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by H.