Mary Gordon "City Life" George Saunders "The Falls" Lee K. Abbott "The Talk Talked Between Worms" Epoch John Barth "On with the Story" Alice Munro "The Love of a Good Woman" Carolyn Cooke "The Twa Corbies" Arthur Bradford "Catface" Andre Dubus "Dancing After Hours" Matthew Klam "The Royal Palms" Kiana Davenport "The Lipstick Tree" Ian MacMillian "The Red House" Mary Gaitskill "Comfort" Robert Morgan "The Balm of Gilead Tree" Thomas Glave "The Final Inning" Deborah Eisenberg "Mermaids" Susan Fromberg Schaeffer "The Old Farmhouse and the Dog-Wife" Carol Shields "Mirrors" Patricia Elam Ruff "The Taxi Ride" Christine Schutt "His Chorus" Rick Moody "Demonology"