The Best American short stories 1998

Appetites / Kathryn Chetkovich

The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue / Poe Ballantine

Body Language / Diane Schoemperlen

Chance / Edith Pearlman

Cosmopolitain / Akhil Sharma

Elvis has left the building / Carol Anshaw

Every night for a thousand years / Chris Adrian

Flower children / Maxine Swann

Glory goes and gets some / Emily Carter

The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx

Morphine / Doran Larson

Mr. Sweetly Indecent / Bliss Broyard

My father on the verge / John Updike

Penance / Matthew Crain

People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore

Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer

Unified front / Antonya Nelson

Wayne in love / Padgett Powell

Welding with children / Tim Gatreaux

Would you know it wasn't love / Hester Kaplan.