Short stories by A. Sanford, Lyn Coffin, Mary Hedin, Rolf Yngve, Sean Virgo, Paul Bowles, Saul Bellow, Maxine Kumin, Jean Thompson, Louis D. Rubin, Peter Lasalle, Robley Wilson, Herbert Wilner, Isaac B. Singer, Alice Munro, Rosellen Brown, William Styron, Bernard Malamud, Kaatjie Hurlbut, Ruth McLaughlin, Shannon Ravenel, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Silvia Tennenbaum, Jayne Anne Philips, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.