August afternoon / Erskine Caldwell -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote -- Very happy poems / Philip Roth -- The lover / Joy Williams -- Bess / Jayne Anne Phillips -- American express / James Salter -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- Serious Need / Reynolds Price -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- A snake of one's own / John Steinbeck -- The language of men / Norman Mailer -- Nude croquet / Leslie A. Fiedler. -- I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin -- Neighbors / Raymond Carver -- A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin -- Heart of a champion / T. Coraghessan -- The quarterback speaks to his God / Herbert Wilner -- Soldier's joy / Tobias Wolff -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Flight / Thomas McGuane.

An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Two legs for the two of us / James Jones -- The death of Justina / John Cheever -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- His son, in his arms, in light, aloft / Harold Brokley -- Rock springs / Richard Ford -- Steady hands at Seattle General / Denis Johnson -- The rumor / John Updike -- My mother's lover / Vince Passaro -- Accountant / Ethan Canin -- The remobilization of Jacob Horner / John Barth -- Black angels / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto / Barry Targan -- Blacamán the good, vendor of miracles / Gabriel García Márquez -- Horse Badorties / goes out / William Kotzwinkle -- The illustrated man / Ray Bradbury -- Return to return / Barry Hannah -- Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Strays / Mark Richard.