The Best American Short Stories 2001This years Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolvers selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life my pleasure, my

Each photo captures the way you see the knot as you make it

and Sunny must join the carnival’s "freaks"—including a contortionist

leaving them extremely vulnerable…but if it’s a war they want

he’s reluctant to take time off from work

25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California

not unlike Kenneth C

Tavi suspects that Torran has been

the four women discover something wonderful: themselves

and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors

In Sharpe's Prey

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