REACHING INSIDE: CONTENTSIntroduction: Andre Dubus III Ann Patchett Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin The Long-Distance Runner, Grace PaleyMary Gordon I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne PorterMadison Smartt Bell King of the Mountain, George GarrettSredni Vashtar, Saki Meg Wolitzer Clay, James Joyce Yours, Mary RobisonDani Shapiro Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges Getting Closer, Steven MillhauserZZ Packer The Paper Lantern, Stuart Dybek Solo Song: For Doc, James Alan McPhersonAnn Beattie Bliss, Katherine Mansfield The Prince, Craig NovaT.C. Boyle The Brother, Robert Coover The Sorrows of the Flesh, Isabel HugganAnthony Doerr The Garden of Forking Paths, Jose Louis Borges Continuity of Parks, Julio CortazarGish Jen Barn Burning, William Faulkner Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman MelvilleStewart O'Nan Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald Boys, Rick MoodyTobias Wolff Wakefield, Nathaniel Hawthorne Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol OatesJess Walter The School, Donald Barthelme Bullet in the Brain, Tobias WolffKirstin Valdez Quade Love, William Maxwell Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice MunroMona Simpson The Lady with the Dog, Anton Chekhov Good People, David Foster WallaceRichard Russo The Lottery, Shirley Jackson The Builders, Richard YatesRon Rash Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You, William Gay A Worn Path, Eudora WeltyAnna Quindlen The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry Wants, Grace PaleyJayne Anne Phillips A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Delmore SchwartzEdith Pearlman A Love Match, Sylvia Townsend Warner Roman Fever, Edith WhartonPeter Orner Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor Welcome, John Edgar WidemanJoyce Carol Oates Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison A&P, , John Updike Bich Minh Nguyen Cathedral, Raymond Carver In the American Society, Gish Jen Antonya Nelson Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, Deborah EisenbergRick Moody The Company of Wolves, Angela Carter The Use of Force, William Carlos WilliamsSue Miller Spanish in the Morning, Edward P. Jones The Things They Carried, Tim O'BrienColum McCann A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly, Benedict Kiely The Love Object, Edna O'BrienLois Lowry A Small, Good Thing, Raymond Carver The Management of Grief, Bharati MukherjeeDennis Lehane Why Don't You Dance, Raymond Carver The Second Tree from the Corner, E.B. WhitePhil Klay The Grand Inquisitor, Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Harvest, Amy Hempel Charles Johnson An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce Trumpeter, John GardnerPam Houston Sara Cole: A Type of Love Story, Russell Banks A Note on the Type, Ron CarlsonAnn Hood Girl, Jamaica Kincaid Home, Jayne Anne PhillipsPaul Harding The Swimmer, John Cheever The Jewels of the Cabots, John CheeverRon Hansen To Build a Fire, Jack London Master and Man, Leo TolstoyJane Hamilton Goodbye My Brother, John Cheever White Angel, Michael Cunningham Jennifer Haigh The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street, Mavis Gallant Family Furnishings, Alice MunroLauren Groff The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol The Shawl, Cynthia OzickRobert Boswell Madagascar, Steven Schwartz The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo TolstoyRussell Banks The Artificial Nigger, Flannery O'Connor No Place for You My Love, Eudora Welty Julia Glass A Father's Story, Andre Dubus Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne Dagoberto Gilb La Noche Buena, Tomas Rivera Paso del Norte, Juan RulfoStuart Dybek The Grasshopper and Bell Cricket, Yasunari Kawabata Birds, John O'BrienEmma Donoghue An Attack of Hunger, Maeve Brennan The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins GilmanJunot Diaz Bloodchild, Octavia Butler Night Women, Edwidge DanticatMichael Cunningham Work, Denis Johnson The Dead, James JoyceLan Samantha Chang French Lesson I: Le Meurtre, Lydia Davis The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan PoeRon Carlson Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan PoeCharles Baxter The Corn Planting, Sherwood Anderson A Conversation with My Father, Grace PaleyRichard Bausch Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway The Real Thing, Henry James