v. 1. Alaska / Alice Adams
When it happens / Margaret Atwood
Frank & Billy / Laurie Colwin
Winter kill / Richard Ford
Recourse / Tess Gallagher
Self-defense / Molly Giles
Safe / Mary Gordon
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
Inexorable progress / Mary Hood
Counting months / David Leavitt
Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane
Tough as a man / Beth Nugent
A new life / Janet Beeler Shaw
Crystal River / Charlie Smith
Teenage wasteland / Anne Tyler
Land fishers / Robley Wilson, Jr.
Desert breakdown 1968 / Tobias Wolff
Woe to live on / Daniel Woodrell
v. 2. Two-head Fred and tree-foot Frieda / Robert William Antoni
The salt garden / Margaret Atwood
The "New Yorker" story / Martha Bayles
Monologue of the movie mogul / Michael Covino
Land where my fathers died / Andre Dubus
Saving the dead / Kurt Duecker
Fire ants / Gerald Duff
All set about with fever trees / Pam Durban
Julius Caesar and the werewolf / John Gardner
Here comes the sun / Janette Turner Hospital
The quickening / Lisa Interollo
Harmony / Janet Kauffman
The rise, fall, and redemption of Mooski Toffski Offski / James Howard Kunstler
City of boys / Beth Nugent
Taking a chance on Jack / Ilene Raymond
Redemption songs / Bob Shacochis
The small things that save us / Brent Spencer
The sacking of Miss Plimsoll / Trevanian
Turning out / Gayle Whittier
v. 3. Time and fear and somehow love / Lee K. Abbott
Secrets men keep / Linsey Abrams
Zero DB / Madison Smartt Bell
The hat / T. Coraghessan Boyle
At the hop / Ron Carlson
A lesson in traveling light / Deborah Eisenberg
The leper / Tess Gallagher
The perfect stone / Ellen Gilchrist
Death of a nation / Ernst Havemann
Big Dog / Norman Lavers
Exits / Paul Leslie
How Esco Mize got religion / James McCulla
Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis
The old man tells his story and gets it wrong / Richard Spilman
Ice / Marian Thurm
Safe / Ellen Wilbur
Health / Joy Williams
Soldier's joy / Tobias Wolff
v. 4. Inside dope / Gail Galloway Adams
The whirlpool rapids / Margaret Atwood
My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / Russell Banks
Surprised by joy / Charles Baxter
The scientic method / Robert Cohen
The dancing party / Mary Gordon
In the air, over our heads / Amy Herrick
The Dominican season / Janette Turner Hospital
Trouble people / Sara Lewis
Country things / Todd Lieber
My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann
A man in Louisiana / Thomas McGuane
Inventing the Abbotts / Sue Miller
The middle man / Bharati Mukherjee
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Underground / Rachel Pastan
Migrants / Elizabeth Tallent
Massé / Leigh Allison Wilson.