The Situation of the Story

ANN BEATTIE, It’s Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22 MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37 EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62 WILLIAM GOYEN, Tapioca Surprise 73 STEPHEN CRANE, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 83 WILLIAM FAULKNER, Barn Burning CONRAD AIKEN, Strange Moonlight 113 ELIZABETH SPENCER, Moon Rocket 124 TRUMAN CAPOTE, Children on Their Birthdays 133 ALICE MUNRO, Miles City, Montana 155 LEE K. ABBOTT, The End of Grief 175 ELLEN WILBUR, Wind and Birds and Human Voices AMY TAN, Rules of the Game 268 LOUISE ERDRICH, Love Medicine 279 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper 301 TONI CADE BAMBARA, Maggie of the Green Bottles 316 ANTON CHEKHOV, The Darling 323 D. H. LAWRENCE, The Lovely Lady 334 WILLA CATHER, The Way of the World 364 VIRGINIA WOOLF, Lappin and Lapinova 377 ZORA NEALE HURSTON, The Gilded Six-Bits 385 DORIS LESSING, To Room Nineteen 431 TILLIE OLSEN, I Stand Here Ironing 460 SHIRLEY JACKSON, Flower Garden, 489 REGINALD McKNlGHT, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas 511 HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES, The Cariboo cafe 522 ANNA LEE WALTERS, The Warriors 558 GEORGE GARRETT, An Evening Performance 573 EDGAR ALLAN POE, Facts in the Case of M.