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Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder ed. Nancy Pickard (Berkley, May 1999, 978-0-425-16890-5, $13.00, x+303pp, tp, oa) ix · Introduction · Nancy Pickard · in 1 · A Worm in the Winesap · Susan Dunlap · ss 17 · Coin of the Realm · Pamela J. Fesler · ss 37 · Mom and Dad at Home · Ed Gorman · ss 47 · The Second-Oldest Profession · Linda Grant · ss 63 · Rotten to the Core · Jeremiah Healy · ss 77 · The Maggody Files: Death in Bloom · Joan Hess · ss 89 · The Gift · Gregory Janicke · ss 105 · Sex, Lies, and Apple Pie · Janet LaPierre · ss 123 · Growth Marks · Margaret Maron · ss 139 · With Thanks to Agatha Christie · Sarah J. Mason · ss 157 · Out of Africa · Nancy Pickard · ss 179 · Clear Sailing · Gillian Roberts · nv 201 · If You Can’t Take the Heat · Sarah Shankman · nv 229 · Thinking · Marilyn Wallace · ss 245 · A Bus Called Pity · Carolyn Wheat · ss 265 · Hello? · Angela Zeman · nv 293 · A Mysterious Collection of Apple Recipes · Various · ms

Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (9th edition) ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall College Div., June 2000, 0-130-14328-6, $49.00, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Preface · James H. Pickering · pr (r) · His Women · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker May 15 1995 · I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 · The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973 · Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979 · Antlers · Rick Bass · ss Special Report: Fiction November 1990/January 1991 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 · Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 · Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936 · August 2002: Night Meeting [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1950 · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r) · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 · I Could See the Smallest Things · Raymond Carver · ss (r) · What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954 · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925 · The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva 1997 · Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1) · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands” · The House on Mango Street · Sandra Cisneros · ss (r) · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865). · The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg · Samuel L. Clemens · na Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1899, as by Mark Twain · My First Kill · Art Coelho · ss (r) · A Country Wedding · Laurie Colwin · ss The New Yorker January 23 1984 · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2) · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1) · Youth · Joseph Conrad · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1898 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891 · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944 · Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 · Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv Metropolitan December 1922 · Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982 · A New England Nun · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891 · Aura · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Lysander Kemp · nv Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965 translated from the Spanish (Aura, Ediciones Era, 1962). · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971 · If I Were a Man · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss Physical Culture July 1914 · The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. · Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r) · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r) translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842). · Home · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker April 25 1988 · We · Mary Grimm · ss The New Yorker October 17 1988 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869 · My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple” · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927 · How to Talk to a Hunter · Pam Houston · ss Quarterly West 1989 · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925 · Trying to Save Piggy Sneed · John Irving · ss (r) · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 · Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · Dorothy M. Johnson · nv Cosmopolitan July 1949 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · Sunday in the Park · Bel Kaufman · ss (r) · The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981 · What Did We Do Wrong? · Garrison Keillor · ss The New Yorker September 16 1985 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994 · Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa · W. P. Kinsella · ss Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella, Oberon Press, 1980 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 · We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r) · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922 · Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986 · Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 · Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r) translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912). · Her First Ball · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Sphere November 28 1921 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). · Rust · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La rouille”, Gil Blas, September 14, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse). · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited. · The Lightning-Rod Man · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1856 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984 · Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker January 11 1988 · A Real Life · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker February 10 1992 · Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe” · Big Blonde · Dorothy Parker · nv The Bookman February 1929 · Surprise! · Robert Phillips · ss (r) · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935 · Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981 · Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · vi North American Review September 1981 · The Girls in Their Summer Dresses · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 4 1939 · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r) · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · Brooksmith by Henry James · Daniel Stern · ss (r) · A Little Burst · Elizabeth Strout · ss The New Yorker June 1 1998 · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r) story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday. · Young Girl’s Wish · Amy Tan · ss The New Yorker October 2 1995 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) · Ten Miles West of Venus · Judy Troy · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994 · The Country Doctor · Ivan Turgenev · ss (r) · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 · Here Come the Maples · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 11 1976 · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975 · To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r) · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941 · Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r) · The Columbus School for Girls · Liza Wieland · ss (r) · Taking Care · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982 · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933 · The Golden Darters · Elizabeth Winthrop · ss American Short Fiction 1991 · Nightingale · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker January 6 1997 · Say Yes · Tobias Wolff · ss (r) · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) · Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) · A Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall, 1993, 0-02-395555-4, tp, an)     Contents from publisher’s catalog. · Preface · James H. Pickering · pr (r) · I. Reading and Studying the Short Story · Plot · My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple” · Character · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 · Setting · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · Point of View · Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r) · Theme · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 · Symbol and Allegory · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 · Style and Tone · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 · II. Stones · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 · Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 · The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941). · Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954 · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands” · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865). · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2) · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891 · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944 · Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 · The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r) translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842). · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927 · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon · Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877 · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981 · We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r) · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922 · Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986 · Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited. · Thanks for the Ride · Alice Munro · ss (r) · Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe” · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935 · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) · Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981, as “1955, or, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down” · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941 · Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r) · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) · Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980 · III. Writing About the Short Story · Reading Critically. Reading and Writing. Quotation and Documentation · [uncredited] · ms (r) · IV. Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms (r) · V. Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) · VI. Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms (r)