The best American short stories, 2004

What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie

Tooth and claw / T. Coraghessan Boyle

Written in stone / Catherine Brady

Accomplice / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Screenwriter / Charles D'Ambrosio

Breasts / Stuart Dybek

Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg

Grace / Paula Fox

Tutor / Nell Freudenberger

Rich man / Edward P. Jones

Limestone diner / Trudy Lewis

Intervention / Jill McCorkle

Gallatin Canyon / Thomas McGuane

Runaway / Alice Munro

All Saints Day / Angela Pneuman

What kind of furniture would Jesus pick? / Annie Proulx

Docent / R. T. Smith

Walk with Elizanne / John Updike

Mirror studies / Mary Yukari Waters

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence / John Edgar Wideman.