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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 -- -- 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 -- notices -- 31, 1948 -- Roll of honor. American authors Foreign authors -- volumes of short stories published in the United States -- short stories in American magazines. American authors Foreign authors -- 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 -- notes -- 31, 1958 -- Roll of honor -- short stories in American magazines. American authors Foreign authors -- 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 -- Biographical notes -- of the American short story, January 1 to December 31, 1959 -- honor -- Foreign authors -- 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 -- notes -- 31, 1960 -- Roll of honor -- short stories in American magazines. American authors Foreign authors -- 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 -- The yearbook of the American short story -- 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 -- The yearbook of the American short story -- 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.