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The Best of the West: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri ed. James Thomas, Tom Hazuka, Jonathan Maney & Denise Thomas (Gibbs Smith, 1988, hc, an)

· Introduction · James Thomas · in (r)

· The Oasis · Alice Adams · ss Fiction Network 1986

· The Man Who Knew Belle Starr · Richard Bausch · nv The Atlantic Monthly April 1987

· A Hunk of Burning Love · François Camoin · ss The Missouri Review 1984

· Phenomena · Ron Carlson · ss Writers’ Forum 1987

· The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981
revised from “Dummy” (Discourse, Summer 1967).

· Under the Wheat · Rick DeMarinis · ss The Iowa Review 1986

· Great Falls · Richard Ford · ss Granta #21, Spring 1987

· True Romance · Ron Hansen · ss Esquire May 1984

· Armadillo · Laura Hendrie · ss The Missouri Review 1984

· The Underground River · William Kittredge · ss The Atlantic Monthly 1984

· The Phantom Mercury of Nevada · David Kranes · ss Hunters in the Snow by David Kranes, University of Utah Press, 1979

· Home Fires · David Long · ss Canto 1982

· True · Tom McNeal · ss Epoch 1987

· Crossing Spider Creek · Dan O’Brien · vi The Texas Review 1988

· Desert Owls · Bill Ripley · ss Quarterly West 1988

· The Man Who Would Be God · Paul Ruffin · ss Chariton Review 1987

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.

· Where West Is · Thom Tammaro · pm Quarterly West 1974

· Nevada · John Updike · ss Playboy January 1974

· Bob and the Other Man · Allen Wier · ss Sandlapper 1978

The Best of the West 2: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri ed. James & Denise Thomas (Gibbs Smith, 1989, hc, an)

· Introduction · James & Denise Thomas · in (r)

· Dust · John Bennion · ss Ascent

· Choteau · Rick Bass · ss Gentleman’s Quarterly

· Bitterwater · Ann Cummins · ss The New Yorker April 4 1988

· Ah Love, Remember Felis · Olive Ghiselin · ss Western Humanities Review

· Matchimanito · Louise Erdrich · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1988

· Leaving on the Wind · Jim Finley · ss Other Voices

· Licit Pursuits · Charles Frazier · ss Kansas Quarterly

· Wickedness · Ron Hansen · ss Sonora Review

· How It Happened to Me · Jim Harrison · ss Esquire

· Where You Have Been, Where You Are Going · Mark Steven Hess · ss OSCAR

· The Golden West Trio Pins One · David Horgan · ss Quarterly West

· Cowboys · Fenton Johnson · ss Greensboro Review

· Hermitage · William Kittredge · ss South Dakota Review

· Goodnight, Nebraska · Tom McNeal · ss Quarterly West

· Meat · Ken Smith · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1988

· Lucinda · Gladys Swan · ss The Ohio Review

· The American Dream: The Book of Boggs · Gordon Weaver · ss Kansas Quarterly

The Best of the West 3: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri ed. James & Denise Thomas (Gibbs Smith, 1990, hc, an)

· Introduction · James Thomas · in (r)

· Heartwood · Rick Bass · ss
first broadcast on The Sound of Writing: PEN Syndicated Fiction Magazine of the Air.

· Draft Horse · Michael Delp · vi North Dakota Quarterly

· Desert Places · Rick DeMarinis · ss Epoch

· The Senora · Dagoberto Gilb · ss The Threepenny Review

· What Lasts · Laura Hendrie · ss (r)
first broadcast on The Sound of Writing: PEN Syndicated Fiction Magazine of the Air.

· The Year the Devil Came · Eugene Kraft · ss Cimarron Review

· The Man Who Might Have Been My Father · David Kranes · ss Utah Holiday

· Stolen Child · Mark Litwicki · ss Sonora Review

· Paris, the Easy Way · T. M. McNally · ss Puerto del Sol

· Crazy River · Robyn Oughton · ss Sonora Review

· My Sister and Her Visit West · Lesley Poling-Kempes · ss Puerto del Sol

· Crease · Lisa Sandlin · ss Shenandoah

· Motel · Robert Shapard · ss Dallas Life Magazine

· Let the Babies Keep Their Hearts · Chris Spain · ss The Antioch Review

· Honey · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Grand Street Autumn 1989

· Hole in the Day · Christopher Tilghman · ss The New Yorker November 27 1989

The Best of the West 4: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri ed. James & Denise Thomas (Norton, 1991, hc, an)

· Introduction · Ron Hansen · in (r)

· Children of the Desert · Rudolfo A. Anaya · ss (r)

· The Man Who Ran with Deer · Thomas Fox Averill · ss (r)

· Antlers · Rick Bass · ss Special Report: Fiction November 1990/January 1991

· My Father Swims His Horse at Last · Robert Day · ss (r)

· Ballad · Dagoberto Gilb · ss (r)

· The Flood · Joy Harjo · pm

· Back in Aberdeen · Leslie Johnson · ss (r)

· A Guide to Some Small Border Airports · Peter LaSalle · ss (r)

· Wind Rower · Kent Meyers · ss (r)

· Mud Season · Antonya Nelso · ss (r)

· First Water · Larry Levis · ss (r)

· How Love Is Found When the Heart Is Lost · Melissa Pritchard · ss (r)

· The Government Man · Ken Smith · ss (r)

· The Old Hotel · Gladys Swan · ss (r)

· Jackpot · Ron Tanner · ss (r)

The Best of the West 5: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri ed. James & Denise Thomas (W.W. Norton, 1992, hc, an)

· Editors’ Note · James & Denise Thomas · pr (r)

· Introduction: Renaissance in the New West · William Kittredge · in (r)

· Where West Is · Thom Tammaro · pm Quarterly West 1974

· Getting Even · Lee K. Abbott · ss Southwest Review

· Alamogordo · Cathryn Alpert · ss Puerto del Sol

· How I Came West, and Why I Stayed · Alison Baker · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1991

· De Ray · Ron Carlson · ss GQ December 1990

· The Mouse · Susan M. Gaines · ss The Missouri Review

· One-Eyed Jacks · Frances Stokes Hoekstra · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review

· Lightning · David Long · ss The Sewanee Review Fall 1991

· What Happened to Tully · Tom McNeal · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1991

· Around the World · Mary Morris · ss Crosscurrents

· Ditch Rider · Kent Nelson · ss Shenandoah

· Utah · Vince Passaro · ss Story Summer 1991

· It’s Come to This · Annick Smith · ss Story Spring 1991

· The Way People Run · Christopher Tilghman · ss The New Yorker September 9 1991

· The Lake District · Evan Williams · ss Northwest Review v29, 1991

· Painted Pony · Dwight Yates · ss Quarterly West

Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories ed. James Thomas, Denise Thomas & Tom Hazuka (W.W. Norton, July 1992, 0-393-30883-9, $12.95, 224pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · James Thomas, Denise Thomas & Tom Hazuka · in

· Brilliant Silence · Spencer Holst · vi

· Pumpkins · Francine Prose · vi

· The Stones · Richard Shelton · pm The Other Side of the Story by Richard Shelton, Confluence Press, 1987

· The One Sitting There · Joanna H. Wos · vi

· Crossing Spider Creek · Dan O’Brien · vi The Texas Review 1988

· The Lampshade Vendor · Allen Woodman · vi

· Roseville · William Heyen · vi

· Pendergast’s Daughter · Lex Williford · vi

· Ponderosa · Kent Thompson · vi

· Gold Coast · Stuart Dybek · vi

· Mr. Mumsford · Larry French · vi

· From the Floodlands · Adrienne Clasky · vi

· A Public Denial · Allan Gurganus · vi

· 232-9979 · Carol Edelstein · vi

· The Father · Raymond Carver · vi

· Love Poems · Lon Otto · vi

· Night · Bret Lott · vi

· Mandy Shupe · Kristin Andrychuk · vi

· Wedding Night · Tom Hawkins · vi Ploughshares Fall 1983

· The Appalachian Trail · Bruce Eason · vi

· Dinner Time · Russell Edson · vi

· Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye · Luisa Valenzuela · vi

· I Get Smart · Pamela Painter · vi

· True Love · Don Shea · vi

· The Colonel · Carolyn Forche · vi

· Snow · Julia Alvarez · vi

· Everything Is Green · David Foster Wallace · vi Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace, W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

· Draft Horse · Michael Delp · vi North Dakota Quarterly

· Corporal · Richard Brautigan · vi

· Subtotals · Gregory Burnham · vi Turnstile Winter 1988

· Fingers · Gary Gildner · pm

· Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · vi North American Review September 1981

· Feeding the Hungry · Roland Topor · vi

· Dish Night · Michael Martone · vi

· Grace Period · Will Baker · vi

· The Haircut · Mary Morris · vi

· Vines · Kenneth Bernard · vi

· How to Touch a Bleeding Dog · Rod Kessler · vi

· Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978

· The Burlington Northern, Southbound · Bruce Holland Rogers · vi New Mexico Humanities Review #32, 1989

· The Cage · Heinrich Böll · vi

· The Restraints · Robert Hill Long · vi

· Blackberries · Ellen Hunnicutt · vi

· A Continuity of Parks · Julio Cortázar · vi End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Pantheon Books, 1967; dated 1956.

· The Paring Knife · Michael Oppenheimer · vi

· The Widow · John Updike · vi The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1982

· What Happened during the Ice Storm · Jim Heynen · vi

· Teddy’s Canary · K. C. Frederick · vi

· The Nicest Kid in the Universe · Chuck Rosenthal · vi

· The Parents · Kelly Cherry · vi

· Water · Fred Leebron · vi

· Stockings · Tim O’Brien · vi

· The Hurricane Ride · Bernard Cooper · vi

· A Moment in the Sun Field · William Brohaugh · vi

· The Philosophical Cobbler · Scott Russell Sanders · vi

· Corners · Sheila Barry · vi

· Space · Mark Strand · vi

· Fear: Four Examples · Gordon Lish · vi What I Know So Far by Gordon Lish, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984

· The Last Parakeet · Kate McCorkle · vi Alaska Quarterly Review Spring/Summer 1989

· Snapshot, Harvery Cedars: 1948 · Paul Lisicky · vi

· August Evening · Joyce Carol Oates · vi

· The Factory · Mary Dilworth · vi

· The Sewers of Salt Lake · François Camoin · vi

· Jane · Steven Molen · vi

· Offerings · Marlene Buono · vi Story Spring 1991

· Bread · Margaret Atwood · vi Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood, Coach House, 1983

· Yogurt · Ronald Wallace · vi

· A Chronicler’s Sin · Pavao Pavlicic · vi

· Here · S. Friedman · vi

· Here’s Another Ending · Diane Williams · vi

· 108 John Street · Mark Halliday · vi

· Deportation at Breakfast · Larry Fondation · vi

Black Walls, Red Glass by Jeffrey Thomas (Marietta Publishing, September 1997, no ISBN, $5.00, 66pp, ph, oc, cover by Jeffrey Thomas)
Chapbook collection of three horror stories.
Details taken from online listing.

· Black Walls · Jeffrey Thomas · ss

· Red Glass · Jeffrey Thomas · ss

· The Red Machine · Jeffrey Thomas · nv

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