“Last Stars,” Notre Dame Review, No. 22 (Summer, 2006).
“After the Abernathys,” The Women’s Times, Vol. 7, No. 4 (August, 2005).
"In Memory of a Lovely Afternoon," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXII, Nos. 3/4 (Summer, Fall, 2000).
"The Village," Notre Dame Review, No. 2 (Summer, 1996).
"Mirrors," American Literary Review, Vol. VI, No.1 (Spring, 1995).
"Certain Treacheries," Harvard Review, No. 3 (Winter, 1993).
"Learning Greek," The Southern Review, Vol.28, No.3 (July, 1992).
"In the Perfect Privacy of His Own Mind," Glimmer Train, Issue No. 2 (Spring, 1992).
"Luba By Night," Fiction, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring, 1991).
"Swimming to Albania," Shenandoah, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1991).
"The Other Side," The Agni Review, 28, (Spring, 1989).
"Small Sins," Columbia, Vol. 14, No. 4 (February-March, 1989).
"Birthday Card." Special Report: Fiction, (February-April,1989).
"Forbidden Waters," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 64, (Winter 1988).
"Breaking Trail," The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine, (December 15, 1988).
"Babylove," The Agni Review , 24/25 (Fall, 1987).
Reprinted in Birth, A Literary Companion, edited by Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett , University of Iowa Press, 2002.
"The Dream Broker," Redbook, (July, 1987).
"The Cutting Edge of the Snow," O. Henry Festival Stories, 1987
"Memorial Day," (PEN Syndicated Fiction Competition winner) San Francisco Chronicle (May 24, 1987); St. Petersburg Times (May 30, 1987); Kansas City Star (June 12, 1988). Produced by National Public Radio for NPR Playhouse: The Sound of Writing II.
"What We Save for Last" The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine, January 3, 1987, New England Living, December, 1990.
"Payment" (originally titled "Reparations") McCall's, (August, 1986).
"Headlines," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 3 (Summer, 1985). (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize.)
"American Authors Incorporated," Fiction Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 10 (Summer, 1985).
"Separate Lives," The Agni Review, 22 (Spring, 1985).
"Among the Lettuce," Cutbank 23, (Spring, 1985).
"Ears," The Boston Review, Vol. IX, No. 5 (October, 1984).
"Margaret, Are You Grieving?," Mademoiselle, (April, 1984).
"Consuming Passion," (originally titled "Pizza") Mademoiselle, (February,1984).
"Third Street," The Boston Globe Magazine, (December 6, 1981).
"Lester Schwabb I, II, III, IV, V," Ploughshares Special Fiction Issue, (Fall, 1980).
"Roommates," (originally titled "Peter Rabbit") Esquire, Vol. 93, No. 4 (April, 1980).
"Light Boat," The Madison Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1979).
"Mt. Kisco," The Old Red Kimona, Vol. VII (Spring, 1979).
"Secrets," Secrets and Other Stories by Women, Gallimaufry 14, 1979.
"Horse Throws Rider in Field," Newsart, The New York Smith, Vol. 2, No. 5 (August, 1978).
"Daffodils or the Death of Love," The Agni Review, 9 (Fall, 1978).
"Rings," The Ohio Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Fall, 1977).
"McCaferty and Sons," Tales, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall, 1976).
"Mr. Lundy," Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1976).
"Slow Moose," Transatlantic Review, Nos. 53/54 (February, 1976).
"Traveling During Pregnancy," The Little Magazine, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1975-76).
"Fly," Women Becoming, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February, 1974).
"Holy Grail," Fragments, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (1973).
"Winter-Tight Lodgings," Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall,1973).
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"Furball's Furcut," Ladybug Magazine Vol. 2, No. 6 (February, 1992).