Presents twenty O. Henry Prize-winning short stories, including works by A. S. Byatt, Marjorie Kemper, and William Trevor, and includes comments by the authors and the volume's story jurors.
Contains a collection of short stories by various authors, which were awarded the O. Henry award in 2005, and includes works my Alice Munro, David Means, William Trevor, and Louise Erdrich.
Contains all of Octavia E. Butler's short fiction and two essays, the novellas and stories are parables of our contemporary world, pitting human fraility and social and environmental decay against residual strengths of human character and human history.
