Also known as: PEN/O. Henry Prize stories. Selected stories originally published in an American or Canadian periodical.

Your duck is my duck / Deborah Eisenberg -- Sugarcane / Derek Palacio -- The summer people / Kelly Link -- Leaving Maverley / Alice Munro -- White carnations / Polly Rosenwaike -- Sail / Tash Aw -- Anecdotes / Ann Beattie -- Lay my head / L. Annette Binder -- He knew / Donald Antrim -- The visitor / Asako Serizawa -- Where do you go? / Samar Farah Fitzgerald -- Aphrodisiac / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Two opinions / Joan Silber -- They find the drowned / Melinda Moustakis -- The Mexican / George McCormick -- Tiger / Nalini Jones -- Pérou / Lily Tuck -- Sinkhole / Jamie Quatro -- The history of girls / Ayse Papatya Bucak -- The particles / Andrea Barrett -- Reading the O. Henry Prize stories -- Writing the O. Henry Prize stories.