Introduction / Barbara Kingsolver --
Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett --
The fireman / Rick Bass --
Think of England / Peter Ho Davies --
Labors of the heart / Claire Davis --
The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver --
After cowboy chicken came to town / Ha Jin --
Brothers and sisters around the world / Andrea Lee --
Rug weaver / Barbara Klein Moss --
Post and beam / Alice Munro --
The raft / Peter Orner --
Betty Hutton / Roy Parvin --
Illumination / Nancy Reisman --
The secrets of bats / Jess Row --
Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford --
My mother's garden / Katherine Shonk --
What I saw from where I stood / Marisa Silver --
The apple tree / Trevanian --
Personal archeology / John Updike --
My baby ... / Dorothy West --
100 other distinguished stories of 2000 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
