A day in the open / Jane Bowles --
A distant episode / Paul Bowles --
Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren --
O City of broken dreams / John Cheever --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The view from the balcony / Wallace Stegner --
No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty --
The state of grace / Harold Brodkey --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
Good country people / Flannery O'Connor --
In time which made a monkey of us all / Grace Paley --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
Venus, Cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor --
Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
In the zoo / Jean Stafford --
A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin --
Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates --
The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme --
In the heart of the heart of the country / William Glass
The babysitter / Robert Coover --
City boy / Leonard Michaels --
White rat / Gayl Jones --
Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver --
Fugue in A minor / William Kotzwinkle --
Here come the Maples / John Updike --
Pretty ice / Mary Robison --
Testimony of pilot / Barry Hannah --
Greenwich time / Ann Beattie --
Lechery / Jayne Anne Phillips --
Liars in love / Richard Yates --
The circling hand / Jamaica Kincaid --
Territory / David Leavitt --
Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle --
The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --
American express / James Salter --
The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan --
The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch --
Hot ice / Stuart Dybek --
You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien.
