The Best American Short Stories 1992
# The Best American Short Stories 1992

The Best American Short Stories 1992 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Robert Stone.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Alice Adams | "The Last Lovely City" | The New Yorker |
| Rick Bass | "Days of Heaven" | Ploughshares |
| Thomas Beller | "A Different Kind of Imperfection" | The New Yorker |
| Amy Bloom | "Silver Water" | Story |
| Robert Olen Butler | "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" | New England Review |
| Mavis Gallant | "Across the Bridge" | The New Yorker |
| Tim Gautreaux | "Same Place, Same Things" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Denis Johnson | "Emergency" | The New Yorker |
| Thom Jones | "The Pugilist at Rest" | The New Yorker |
| Marshall Klimasewiski | "JunHee" | The New Yorker |
| Lorrie Moore | "Community Life" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Carried Away" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Is Laughter Contagious?" | Harper's Magazine |
| Reynolds Price | "The Fare to the Moon" | The Southern Review |
| Annick Smith | "It's Come to This" | Story |
| Christopher Tilghman | "The Way People Run" | The New Yorker |
| David Foster Wallace | "Forever Overhead" | Fiction International |
| Kate Wheeler | "Under the Roof" | Black Warrior Review |
| Elizabeth Winthrop | "The Golden Darters" | American Short Fiction |
| Tobias Wolff | "Firelight" | Story |
