Prize stories 2001: the O. Henry awards

The Deep / Mary Swan

Big me / Dan Chaon

Floating bridge / Alice Munro

That winter / Fred G. Leebron

The love of my life / R. Coraghessan Boyle

The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates

The smoker / David Schickler

Female trouble / Antonya Nelson

The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver

Zog 19: a scientific romance / Pinckney Benedict

At the Jim Bridger / Ron Carlson

Revival road / Louise Erdich

The paperhanger / William Gay

Bliss / Dale Peck

Bow down / Murad Kalam

Pastoralia / George Saunders

Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett.