Where You'll Find Me
by Ann Beattie | 
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
by Ben Fountain | 
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
by Amy Hempel |
Charity
by Mark Richard | 
Circling the Drain
by Amanda Davis | 
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
by Will Self | 
What Was Mine
by Ann Beattie | 
The Stories of Richard Bausch
by Richard Bausch | 
To Cut a Long Story Short
by Jeffrey Archer | 
The Melancholy of Anatomy
by Shelley Jackson | 
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
by Matthew Kneale | 
Gates of Eden
by Ethan Coen | 
Aliens of Affection
by Padgett Powell | 
The Palace Thief
by Ethan Canin | 
Nice Big American Baby
by Judy Budnitz | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau |
This collection of stories, set in various locales of North Carolina create entire worlds and indelible moments as only the best short fiction does.