Foreword
Introduction by Stephen King

Louis Auchincloss. Pa's Darling
from The Yale Review

John Barth. Toga Party
from Fiction

Ann Beattie. Solid Wood
from Boulevard

T. C. Boyle. Balto
from The Paris Review

Randy Devita. Riding the Doghouse
from West Branch

Joseph Epstein. My Brother Eli
from The Hudson Review

William Gay. Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You?
from Tin House

Mary Gordon. Eleanor's Music
from Ploughshares

Lauren Groff. L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story
from The Atlantic Monthly

Beverly Jensen. Wake
from New England Review

Roy Kesey. Wait
from The Kenyon Review

Stellar Kim. Findings & Impressions
from The Iowa Review

Aryn Kyle. Allegiance
from Ploughshares

Bruce McAllister. The Boy in Zaquitos
from Fantasy and Science Fiction

Alice Munro. Dimension
from The New Yorker

Eileen Pollack. The Bris
from Subtropics

Karen Russell. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
from Granta

Richard Russo. Horseman
from The Atlantic Monthly

Jim Shepard. Sans Farine
from Harper's Magazine

Kate Walbert. Do Something
from Ploughshares

Contributors' Notes
100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006
Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short
Stories