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CONTENTS LEX WILLIFORD AND MICHAEL MARTONE Foreword ROSELLEN BROWN Introduction ALEXIE, SHERMAN This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona ATWOOD, MARGARET Death by Landscape BAMBARA, TONI Cade Raymond's Run BANKS, RUSSELL Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story BARTH, JOHN Click BARTHELME, DONALD The School BASS, RICK Wild Horses BAUSCH, RICHARD The Man Who Knew Belle Starr BAXTER, CHARLES Gryphon BELL, MADISON SMARTT Customs of the Country BLOOM, AMY SILVER Water BRAVERMAN, KATE Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain CANIN, ETHAN The Year of Getting to Know Us CARVER, RAYMOND Errand CISNEROS, SANDRA Woman Hollering Creek CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL White Angel DIAZ, JUNOT Fiesta 1980 DYBEK, STUART Pet Milk EARLEY, TONY The Prophet from Jupiter ERDRICH, LOUISE Saint Marie FORD, RICHARD Rock Springs GATES, DAVID The Mail Lady GAUTREAUX, TIM Same Place, Same Things HANSEN, RON Nebraska HEMPEL, AMY In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried JOHNSON, DENIS Emergency JONES, EDWARD P. Marie JONES, THOM Cold Snap KAPLAN, DAVID MICHAEL Doe Season KAUFFMAN, JANET Patriotic KINCAID, JAMAICA Girl LEAVITT, DAVID Territory MCKNIGHT, REGINALD The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas MOORE, LORRIE You're Ugly, Too MUKHERJEE, BHARATI The Management of Grief MUNRO, ALICE Meneseteung OATES, JOYCE CAROL Ghost Girls O'BRIEN, TIM The Things They Carried OZICK, CYNTHIA The Shawl PROULX, ANNIE Brokeback Mountain RICHARD, MARK Strays SMITH, LEE Intensive Care SONTAG, SUSAN The Way We Live Now TAN, AMY Two Kinds THON, MELANIE RAE First, Body VAUGHN, STEPHANIE Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog WALKER, ALICE Nineteen Fifty-five WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR Fever WILLIAMS, JOY Taking Care