Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love | 
The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud | 
One Arm and Other Stories
by Tennessee Williams | 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis Johnson | 
The Shell Collector
by Anthony Doerr | 
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace | 
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Great Frustration
by Seth Fried | 
The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley | 
Collected Children's Stories
by Sylvia Plath | 
Rock Springs
by Richard Ford |
In these two stories of lives colliding, a mother buying a birthday gift has her dreams destroyed, and a honeymoon leads to an unexpected epiphany.