The diver / V.S. Pritchett -- A country wedding / Laurie Colwin -- Blackbird pie / Raymond Carver -- The nice restaurant / Mary Gaitskill -- Goodbye Marcus goodbye Rose / Jean Rhys -- How to give the wrong impression / Katherine Heiny -- Marito in Citta' / John Cheever -- The Jack Randa Hotel / Alice Munro -- Hey, Joe / Ben Neihart -- Here come the maples / John Updike -- Yours / Mary Robison -- Roses, Rhododendron / Alice Adams -- Influenza / Daniel Menaker -- How old, how young / John O'Hara -- Eyes of a blue dog / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- We / Mary Grim -- The dark stage / David Plante -- Song of roland / Jamaica Kincaid -- The man in the moon / William Maxwell -- The kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- The Cinderella Waltz / Ann Beattie -- Experiment / Julian Barnes -- Scarves, Beads, Sandals / Mavis Gallant -- Ten miles West of Venus / Judy Troy -- The circle / Vladimir Nabokov -- The profumo affair / Ethna Carroll -- Elka and Meir / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Sculpture 1 / Angela Patrinos -- Dating your mom / Ian Frazier -- The man with the dog / R. Prawer Jhabvala -- The plan / Edna O'Brien -- Spring Fugue / Harold Brodkey -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- Attraction / David Long -- Ocean Avenue / Michael Chabon -- Love life / Bobbie Ann Mason -- After rain / William Trevor -- Overnight to many distant cities / Donald Barthelme.