"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 /
"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 Reiser 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 / 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" by Viet Thanh Nguyen / Kao Kalia Yang --
"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz / Mako Yoshikawa --
"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman / Mary Kay Zuravleff.
