Introduction / DeWitt Henry
A compassionate leave / Richard Yates
Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien
A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
Lily ; Duck season / T. Alan Broughton
Household / Susan Engberg
Davidson among the chosen / Philip Damon
Uncle Nathan / Jay Neugeboren
All sorts of impossible things / John McGahern
Works of the imagination / Gina Berriault
At St. Croix / Andre Dubus
El Paso / Jayne Anne Phillips
Ollie, oh... / Carolyn Chute
Bunco / Marilyn Jean Conner
The intruders of sleepless nights / Pamela Painter
The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf
Fathers / Robley Wilson, Jr.
The pilot-messenger / Eve Shelnutt
Minnie the moocher's hair / Jack Pulaski
Winterblossom garden / David Low
Offices of instruction / Jocelyn Hausmann
Static discharge / Lew McCreary
Expensive gifts / Sue Miller
Trespass / Sandra Scofield
The eighth day / Max Apple
The carved table / Mary Peterson
Moonlight / Richard Wertime
The coggios / Sharyn Layfield.
