Table of Contents

The Best American Short Stories 2007 continues the series’ long legacy of bringing readers the previous year’s short fiction, carefully selected from hundreds of sources nationwide.

We’re pleased to provide Web site visitors with a few excerpts from this year’s edition. You can read them by clicking on the highlighted story titles below.

"Pa’s Darling"
Louis Auchincloss
The Yale Review

"Toga Party"
John Barth
Fiction

"Solid Wood"
Ann Beattie
Boulevard

"Balto"
T. C. Boyle
The Paris Review

"Riding the Doghouse"
Randy Devita
West Branch

"My Brother Eli"
Joseph Epstein
The Hudson Review

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

"Eleanor’s Music"
Mary Gordon
Ploughshares

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

"Wake"
Beverly Jensen
New England Review

"Wait"
Roy Kesey
The Kenyon Review

"Findings & Impressions"
Stellar Kim
The Iowa Review

"Allegiance"
Aryn Kyle
Ploughshares

"The Boy in Zaquitos"
Bruce Mcallister
Fantasy and Science Fiction

"Dimension"
Alice Munro
The New Yorker

"The Bris"
Eileen Pollack
Subtropics

"St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
Karen Russell
Granta

"Horseman"
Richard Russo
The Atlantic Monthly

"Sans Farine"
Jim Shepard
Harper’s Magazine

"Do Something"
Kate Walbert
Ploughshares