Nelson Algren - So Help Me
Margaret Atwood - The War in the Bathroom
James Baldwin - Previous Condition
Harold Brodkey - The State of Grace
Charles Bukowski - Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip
Truman Capote - Miriam
Raymond Carver - Furious Seasons
John Cheever - Expelled
William Faulkner - Landing in Luck
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Babes in the Woods
E.M. Forster - Albergo Empedocle
Graham Greene - The End of the Party
Mark Helprin - Because of the Waters of the Flood
Ernest Hemingway - in our time
Chester B. Himes - Crazy in the Stir
Shirley Jackson - After You, My Dear Alphonse
David Leavitt - Territory
Ursula K. LeGuin - Aprin in Paris
Doris Lessing - The Pig
Mary McCarthy - Cruel and Barbarous Treatment
Carson McCullers - Wunderkind
Norman Mailer - The Greatest Thing in the World
Bernard Malamud - Benefit Performance
Henry Miller - Mademoiselle Claude
Alice Munro - A Basket of Strawberries
Joyce Carol Oates - In the Old World
Flannery O'Conner - The Geranium
Grace Paley - Goodbye and Good Luck
Dorothy Parker - Such a Pretty Little Picture
Philip Roth - The Day it Snowed
William Safoyan - The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Irwin Shaw - Flash in the Pan
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Gimpel the Fool
Jane Smiley - And Baby Makes Three
Muriel Spark - The Seraph and the Zambesi
Jim Thompson - Oil Field Vignettes
John Updike - Friends from Philadelphia
Kurt Vonnegut - Report on the Barnhouse Effect
Alice Walker - To Hell with Dying
Eudora Welty - Death of a Traveling Salesman
Tennissee Williams - The Vengeance of Nitocris