Contains:
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
The other two / Edith Wharton
A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather
The secret woman / Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein
The new dress / Virginia Woolf
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Rope / Katherine Anne Porter
Winter night / Kay Boyle
A worn path / Eudora Welty
The scream on Fifty-seventh Street / Hortense Calisher
Like a winding sheet / Ann Petry
In a cafe / Mary Lavin
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
The eldest child / Maeve Brennan
Wunderkind / Carson McCullers
To room nineteen / Doris Lessing
An interest in life / Grace Paley
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
Cousin Lewis / Jean Stubbs
A journey / Edna O'Brien
The office / Alice Munro
In a region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates
The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble
Day-old baby rats / Julie Hayden
Everyday use / Alice Walker