Introduction / by John Freeman
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972
A conversation with my father / Grace Paley, 1972
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973
Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / Raymond Carver, 1973
The flowers / Alice Walker, 1973
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid, 1978
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich, 1982
The reencounter / Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982
Taking care / Joy Williams, 1982
Story / Lydia Davis, 1983
China / Charles Johnson, 1984
Pet milk / Stuart Dybek, 1984
The way we live now / Susan Sontag, 1986
Salvador late or early / Sandra Cisneros, 1986
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien, 1986
River of names / Dorothy Allison, 1988
Emergency / Denis Johnson, 1991
Sticks / George Saunders, 1994
Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz, 1996
Silence / Lucia Berlin, 1998
The twenty-seventh man / Nathan Englander,1998
Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff, 1988
The hermit's story / Rick Bass, 1998
A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998
The penthouse / Andrew Holleran, 1999
The fix / Percival Everett, 199
Water child / Edwidge Danticat, 2000
The American Embassy / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003
The conductor / Aleksandar Hemon, 2005
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / Karen Russell, 2007
The last thing we need / Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010
The paper menagerie / Ken Liu, 2011
The dune / Stephen King, 2011
Diem Perdidi / Julie Otsuka, 2011
The great silence / Ted Chiang, 2015
The midnight zone / Lauren Groff, 2016
Anyone can do it / Maunel Muñoz, 2019.
