A Rose for Emily&William Faulkner 1
Theft&Katherine Anne Porter 16
A Day's Wait&Ernest Miller Hemingway 27
The Chrysanthemums&John Steinbeck 35
Christmas Gift&Robert Penn Warren 52
Split Cherry Tree&Jesse Stuart 69
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses&Irwin Shaw 87
The Standard of Living&Dorothy Parker 98
King of the Bingo Game&Ralph Ellison 109
The Interior Castle&Jean Stafford 127
The Lottery&Shirley Jackson 148
The Enormous Radio&John Cheever 163
Gimpel the Fool&Isaac Bashevis Singer 181
Christmas Dayin the Morning&Pearl S.Buck 202
A Good Man Is Hard to Find&Flannery O'Connor 209
The Magic Barrel&Bernard Malamud 234
A＆P&John Updike 259
The Second Tree from the Corner&E.B.White 271
Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?&Joyce Carol Oates 280
The Farmer's Children&Elizabeth Bishop 306
Everyday Use&Alice Walker 320
The Hitch-Hikers&Eudora Welty 334
No Name Woman&Maxine Hong Kingston 355
The Shawl&Cynthia Ozick 374
The Bath&Raymond Carver 383
Lullaby&Leslie Marmon Silko 395
Where I'm calling from&Raymond Carver 411
Say Yes&Tobias Wolff 433
Janus&Ann Beattie 441