A collection of 75 short stories, none longer than 750 words, includes works by Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Tim O'Brien, and Joyce Carol Oates Introduction 11(17) Brilliant Silence 17(2) Spencer Holst Pumpkins 19(4) Francine Prose The Stones 23(2) Richard Shelton The One Sitting There 25(3) Joanna H. Wos Crossing Spider Creek 28(3) Dan O'Brien The Lampshade Vendor 31(3) Allen Woodman Roseville 34(3) William Heyen Pendergast's Daughter 37(2) Lex Williford Ponderosa 39(2) Kent Thompson Gold Coast 41(3) Stuart Dybek Mr. Mumsford 44(3) Larry French From the Floodlands 47(3) Adrienne Clasky A Public Denial 50(3) Allan Gurganus 232-9979 53(3) Carol Edelstein The Father 56(3) Raymond Carver Love Poems 59(2) Lon Otto Night 61(2) Bret Lott Mandy Shupe 63(3) Kristin Andrychuk Wedding Night 66(3) Tom Hawkins The Appalachian Trail 69(3) Bruce Eason Dinner Time 72(3) Russell Edson Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye 75(2) Luisa Valenzuela I Get Smart 77(4) Pamela Painter True Love 81(3) Don Shea The Colonel 84(2) Carolyn Forche Snow 86(2) Julia Alvarez Everything Is Green 88(3) David Foster Wallace Draft Horse 91(3) Michael Delp Corporal 94(3) Richard Brautigan Subtotals 97(3) Gregory Burnham Fingers 100(2) Gary Gildner Nadine at 35: A Synopsis 102(3) Jo Sapp Feeding the Hungry 105(3) Roland Topor Dish Night 108(3) Michael Martone Grace Period 111(3) Will Baker The Haircut 114(3) Mary Morris Vines 117(3) Kenneth Bernard How to Touch a Bleeding Dog 120(3) Rod Kessler Girl 123(3) Jamaica Kincaid The Burlington Northern, Soutbbound 126(2) Bruce Holland Rogers The Cage 128(3) Heinrich Boll The Restraints 131(3) Robert Hill Long Blackberries 134(3) Ellen Hunnicutt A Continuity of Parks 137(3) Julio Cortazar The Paring Knife 140(2) Michael Oppenheimer The Widow 142(4) John Updike What Happened during the Ice Storm 146(2) Jim Heynen Teddy's Canary 148(4) K. C. Frederick The Nicest Kid in the Universe 152(3) Chuck Rosenthal The Parents 155(2) Kelly Cherry Water 157(2) Fred Leebron Stockings 159(2) Tim O'Brien The Hurricane Ride 161(2) Bernard Cooper A Moment in the Sun Field 163(2) William Brohaugh The Philosophical Cobbler 165(2) Scott Russell Sanders Corners 167(3) Sheila Barry Space 170(3) Mark Strand Fear: Four Examples 173(3) Gordon Lish The Last Parakeet 176(3) Kate McCorkle Snapshot, Harvery Cedars: 1948 179(2) Paul Lisicky August Evening 181(3) Joyce Carol Oates The Factory 184(3) Mary Dilworth The Sewers of Salt Lake 187(4) Francois Camoin Jane 191(3) Steven Molen Offerings 194(4) Marlene Buono Bread 198(3) Margaret Atwood Yogurt 201(2) Ronald Wallace A Chronicler's Sin 203(2) Pavao Pavlicic Here 205(4) S. Friedman Here's Another Ending 209(2) Diane Williams 108 John Street 211(2) Mark Halliday Deportation at Breakfast 213 Larry Fondation