Best American Short Stories, 1991

By Barry Hannah, ALICE ADAMS, John Keeble, Sherman Alexie, Roxana Robinson, David Gates, Lan Samantha Chang, Chris Offutt, Laura Glen Louis, Robert Olen Butler, CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN, Tobias Wolff, Jim Shepard, Jonathan Wilson, Ann Cummins, Carol Anshaw, Katrina Kenison, John Rolfe Gardiner, Carolyn Ferrell, Tony Earley, Alice Elliott Dark, Nancy Krusoe, Thom Jones, Stuart Dybek

Here in a single volume is the finest short fiction of the year, selected by distinguished novelist and short story writer Alice Adams. She brings together 20 outstanding works and, in her introduc...

The Best American Short Stories 2000

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher in the new millenn...

The Best American Short Stories 2000

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Hypnotic short stories of life in the Southwest that “emanate suspense, inspiring page-turning tension” (The Washington Times). A young woman is pushed, quite literally, to the edge on a desolate m...

Yellowcake

By Ann Cummins

The Best American Short Stories 2002

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Denis Johnson meets Flannery OConnor in this luminous collection of short stories about the collision of cultures, genders, and generations in the American Southwest. Set mainly amid Indian reserva...

Yellowcake

By Ann Cummins

More than thirty years after the closing of a nearby uranium mine, the arrival of Becky Atcitty, the daughter of a former Navajo mill worker and a woman involved in a group seeking damages for expo...

Job Evaluation

By Sue Hastings, Ann Cummins, Willie Wood, Michael Armstrong

Valuing Roles

By Ann Cummins, Michael Armstrong

Red Ant House

By Ann Cummins

Yellowcake

By Ann Cummins