| Title | Publication | Collected in |
| "The Broken Bottle" | Prairie Schooner 25.3 (Fall 1951) | - |
| "Journey to Emily" | Prairie Schooner 26.3 (Fall 1952) | - |
| "The Darkness Is So Big" | Prairie Schooner 27.1 (Spring 1953) | - |
| "The Rock Garden" | Folio 19.1 (November 1953) | - |
| "An Anchor in the Land" | Prairie Schooner 27.4 (Winter 1953-54) | - |
| "The Journey of Annie Bliss" | Four Quarters 3.3 (April 1954) | - |
| "The Fence" | Prairie Schooner 28.3 (Fall 1954) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "The Kettle" | Arizona Quarterly 11.1 (Spring 1955) | - |
| "The Frog Lady" | Prairie Schooner 30.3 (Fall 1956) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "The Choice" | Four Quarters 6.1 (November 1956) | - |
| "The Indifferent Wind" | Four Quarters 6.3 (March 1957) | - |
| "The Mandrake Heart" | The Husk 37.1 (October 1957) | - |
| "Tom and Letty's World" | Carolina Quarterly 10.3 (Summer 1958) | - |
| "The Keepers" | Four Quarters 8.1 (November 1958) | - |
| "Vigil" | The Husk 38.2 (December 1958) | - |
| "The Singer and the Song" | Quixote 21 (Spring 1959) | - |
| "You'll Hear From Me Saturday" | Arizona Quarterly 15.3 (Autumn 1959) | - |
| "Something for a Rainy Day" | Four Quarters 9.1 (November 1959) | - |
| "Let the Weariness Go" | The Husk 39.1 (October 1959) | - |
| "The Wild Duck" | North Dakota Quarterly 28.1 (Winter 1960) | - |
| "Through a Certain Window" | Colorado Quarterly 8.4 (Spring 1960) | - |
| "Five Miles to December" | Southwest Review 45.4 (Autumn 1960) | - |
| "Dark Woman" | North Dakota Quarterly 28.4 (Autumn 1960) | - |
| "The Visitor" | Four Quarters 10.3 (March 1961) | - |
| "The Inheritance" | Four Quarters 11.2 (January 1962) | - |
| "As Fish, as Birds, as Grass" | The Minnesota Review 2.4 (Summer 1962) | - |
| "The Fallen" | University of Kansas City Review 28.4 (Summer 1962) | - |
| "The Game" | The Georgia Review 16.3 (Fall 1962) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "Sailor in Malaga" | North Dakota Quarterly 31.1/2 (Winter-Spring 1963) | - |
| "Don't Ask for Beauty Twice" | Transatlantic Review 15 (Spring 1964) | - |
| "Does He Treat You All Right?" | Four Quarters 14.4 (May 1965) | - |
| "The Deepest Chamber" | Four Quarters 15.3 (March 1966) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "One of the Boys" | Southwest Review 51.2 (Spring 1966) |
| "The Moment" | North American Review 251.3 (May 1966) | - |
| "All the People I Never Had" | Transatlantic Review 21 (Summer 1966) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "The Man Who Made People" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 1.3 (Spring 1967) |
| "Summer Is the Suffering Time Here" | North American Review 252.3 (May 1967) | - |
| "In Transit" | Arlington Quarterly 1.3 (Spring 1968) | - |
| "Going West" | Transatlantic Review 28 (Spring 1968) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "The Rate of Decomposition in a Cold Climate" | Southwest Review 53.3 (Summer 1968) |
| "3" | Virginia Quarterly Review 44.4 (Autumn 1968) |
| "Moments in the Definition of Space" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 3.1 (Fall 1968) | - |
| "The Listener" | University Review 35.1 (Autumn 1968) | - |
| "All the Carnivals in the World" | The Southern Review (Spring 1969) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "Don't Stay Away Too Long" | Southwest Review 54.4 (Autumn 1969) |
| "Her" | Georgia Review 23.3 (Fall 1969) | - |
| "Something Just Over the Edge of Everything" | Four Quarters 19.1 (November 1969) | - |
| "The Transfusion Man" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 4.2 (1969) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "Auction" | Arlington Quarterly 2.3 (Winter 1969-70) | - |
| "The Captain" | Transatlantic Review 36 (Summer 1970) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "Something of Martha" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal (1970) |
| "Where Was My Life Before I Died?" | Southwest Review 56.2 (Spring 1971) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "The Moment of Fish" | The Southern Review (Autumn 1971) |
| "The Shaping Sky" | Four Quarters 21.1 (November 1971) | - |
| "Sully" | Kansas Quarterly 4.1 (Winter 1971-72) | - |
| "The Long Darkness" | New Laurel Review 1.2 (Spring 1972) | - |
| "The Woman from Jujuy" | Southwest Review 57.3 (Summer 1972) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "Hours Beyond Dusk" | The Cimarron Review (1972) | - |
| "Passageways" | University of Windsor Review 8.2 (Spring 1973) | - |
| "Somewhere I Died" | Southwest Review 58.3 (Summer 1973) | - |
| "William Saroyan, Come Home" | Georgia Review 27.2 (Summer 1973) | - |
| "The Itinerary of Beggars" | Transatlantic Review 46/47 (Summer 1973) | The Itinerary of Beggars |
| "Contemplations of Ecstasy on the Day of My Suicide" | The Itinerary of Beggars (1973) |
| "Running" |
| "The Fire in My Face" | Southwest Review 58.4 (Autumn 1973) | - |
| "Beyond a Final Day" | Mississippi Review 2.2 (1973) | - |
| "In the Dust" | Wind 8 (1973) | - |
| "Tomorrow" | New Laurel Review 3.1/2 (1973) | - |
| "Parts" | Aphra 5.1 (Winter 1973-74) | - |
| "The Finer Cadence" | Confrontation 8 (Spring 1974) | - |
| "The Lessons of Particular Love" | Carleton Miscellany 14.2 (Spring-Summer 1974) | - |
| "The Electrician" | Four Quarters 23.4 (Summer 1974) | - |
| "Distances" | Black Warrior Review 1.1 (Fall 1974) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "This" | New Letters 41.2 (December 1974) | - |
| "The Long Way to Go" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 8.1 (1974) | - |
| "The Emptiest Corner" | Event 3.3 (1974) | - |
| "The Interior Landscape" | Georgia State University Review 1.1 (1974) | - |
| "A Chronicle of Love" | Kansas Quarterly 7.1/2 (Winter-Spring 1975) | Naming Things |
| "I Am Trying to Reach You, A Long Way Off, From This My Body Lying Beside You, So Please Listen" | Mississippi Review 4.1 (1975) | - |
| "Begin, Begin" | Georgia State University Review 1.2 (1975) | - |
| "Tracks" | West Coast Review 10.3 (February 1976) | - |
| "The Impossible" | Ontario Review 4 (Spring-Summer 1976) | - |
| "Thief" | Nimrod 20.2 (Spring-Summer 1976) | - |
| "Bones" | Red Cedar Review 10.2/3 (May 1976) | - |
| "Answers" | Boundary 2 5.1 (Autumn 1976) | - |
| "The Fever" | DeKalb Literary Arts Journal 9.3 (1976) | - |
| "Hurricane" | Mississippi Review 5.3 (1976) | - |
| "Out There" | Four Quarters 26.2 (Winter 1977) | The Sudden Trees |
| "Down" | Confrontation 14 (Spring-Summer 1977) | - |
| "A Thing of Beauty" | Aspen Anthology 4 (Fall 1977) | - |
| "Under" | Remington Review 5 (November 1977) | - |
| "Naming Things" | Virginia Quarterly Review 54.1 (Winter 1978) | Naming Things |
| "The History of a Man in Despair" | Kansas Quarterly 10.1 (Winter 1978) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "What Is the Color of Eternity?" | The Cimarron Review 42 (January 1978) | - |
| "The Alien Concept" | Chariton Review 4.1 (Spring 1978) | - |
| "The Advancement of Learning" | CutBank 10 (Spring-Summer 1978) | - |
| "Subject, Object, and the Nature of Love" | Quarterly West 6 (Spring-Summer 1978) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "Trial" | Southwest Review 63.3 (Summer 1978) | Naming Things |
| "November Afternoons" | The Sewanee Review 86.4 (October-December 1978) |
| "The Long Haul" | Nantucket Review 10 (1978) | - |
| "Two Lives" | Kansas Quarterly 11.1/2 (Winter-Spring 1979) | Naming Things |
| "Ballad of the Engineer Carl Feldmann" | Michigan Quarterly Review 18.2 (Spring 1979) | - |
| "Walls" | Quarterly West 9 (1979) | The Sudden Trees |
| "The Visitation" | West Branch 4 (1979) | - |
| "The Killing Station" | Mundus Artium 11.1 (1979) | - |
| "The Hoarders" | Naming Things (1980) | Naming Things |
| "Versions of the Body" |
| "The Woman—and the Man of It" |
| "Sitting" | Mississippi Review 10.1/2 (Spring-Summer 1981) | - |
| "A Disturbance of Gulls" | The Missouri Review 5.1 (Fall 1981) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "The Guitar" | Southwest Review 67.2 (Spring 1982) | - |
| "Suns" | Four Quarters 31.3 (Spring 1982) | - |
| "The Ledge" | Pulpsmith 2.2 (Summer 1982) | - |
| "On the Heights of Machu Picchu" | Greensboro Review 32 (Summer 1982) | The Sudden Trees |
| "The Cleaning Woman" | Crazyhorse 23 (Fall 1982) | - |
| "This Small Oblivion" | The Louisville Review 11 (1982) | - |
| "Evolving" | New Orleans Review 10.4 (Winter 1983) | - |
| "At Night the City" | The Literary Review 26.3 (Spring 1983) | - |
| "Son" | Kansas Quarterly 15.2 (Spring 1983) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "The Westerbergs" | New Mexico Humanities Review 6.2 (Summer 1983) | - |
| "Where's Tom?" | Virginia Quarterly Review 59.3 (Summer 1983) | - |
| "A Romance" | A Disturbance of Gulls (1983) | A Disturbance of Gulls |
| "A View of the Harbor" |
| "The Island" | Southwest Review 69.1 (Winter 1984) | - |
| "The Sudden Trees" | Prairie Schooner 58.1 (Spring 1984) | The Sudden Trees |
| "The Other" | The South Carolina Review 16.2 (Spring 1984) | - |
| "Falling" | The Antioch Review 42.4 (Autumn 1984) | - |
| "His Name" | Texas Review 5.3/4 (Fall-Winter 1984) | - |
| "Traveling" | Fiction Monthly 2.3 (November 1984) | - |
| "The Other Side of the Fire" | Montana Review 5 (1984) | The Sudden Trees |
| "Walking on Water" | Northwest Review 22.3 (1984) | - |
| "Why Do You Have to Go So Far to Be So Near?" | Mid-American Review 6.1 (Fall 1985) | - |
| "The Drawings" | Confrontation 30/31 (1985) | - |
| "Carnival" | The Literary Review 29.2 (Winter 1986) | - |
| "In the Basement" | The Antigonish Review 66/67 (Summer-Autumn 1986) | - |
| "Sin-Lengua (from Death in Argentina)" | Crazyhorse 31 (1986) | - |
| "A Daughter's Life" | Gargoyle 30/31 (November 1986) | - |
| "Crossing the Sound" | Nantucket Review 26 (1986) | - |
| "Joshua" | The Sewanee Review 95.2 (Spring 1987) | The Sudden Trees |
| "Among the Exiles" | Kansas Quarterly 19.3 (Summer 1987) | - |
| "You, Felipe" | Quarterly West 25 (Summer 1987) | - |
| "Plan of the City" | Event 16.3 (1987) | - |
| "Normal Experience" | The Kenyon Review 10.3 (Summer 1988) | - |
| "Random" | Indiana Review 12.2 (1989) | - |
| "A Flight of Bones" | Missouri Review 12.1 (1989) | - |
| "Interval" | Short Story Review 6.2 (1989) | - |
"Hog Island"
aka "The One Summer of Our Lives" | The Alaska Quarterly Review 9.1/2 (Fall-Winter 1990) | - |
| "The Men" | Beloit Fiction Journal 5.2 (Spring 1990) | - |
| "Mr. Balzano" | Southern Review 27.2 (Spring 1991) | The Sudden Trees |
| "Hoarding Mountains" | Sycamore Review 4.2 (Summer 1992) | - |
| "Fathers" | The Literary Review 35.2 (1992) | - |
| "The Geography of Fear" | Ontario Review 36 (1992) | - |
| "A Brother's Passion" | Beloit Fiction Journal 8.2 (Spring 1993) | - |
| "Wanda and Rival" | Kansas Quarterly 25.3/4 (Spring 1993) | - |
| "The Collection Man" | Boulevard 25/26 (Spring 1994) | - |
| "All Summer Long" | The Missouri Review 17.2 (Fall 1994) | - |
| "Prologue to a Life of Storywriting" | Elk River Review 3.1 (1994) | - |
| "Ignacio" | Carolina Quarterly 47.2 (Winter 1995) | - |
| "Lib" | Mānoa 7.1 (Summer 1995) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "Skin" | The James White Review 12.3 (Fall 1995) | - |
| "Going Under" | Alabama Bound: Contemporary Stories of a State (1995) | - |
| "The Boulders" | Five Fingers Review 34.3 (1995) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "The Children" | Prairie Schooner 70.1 (Spring 1996) | - |
| "My Life and Death, and Yours" | Santa Barbara Review 4.2 (Summer 1996) | - |
| "The Winter Guest" | Alaska Quarterly Review 15.1/2 (Fall-Winter 1996) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "Running the Bulls" | Sonora Review 32 (Fall-Winter 1996) | - |
| "A Deep, Black Joy" | Kinesis 5.4 (1996) | - |
| "A Little Thing" | South Dakota Quarterly 34.3 (1996) | - |
| "Underground Music" | The Missouri Review 20.3 (Winter 1997) | - |
| "Talking to Spiders" | Willow Springs 39 (January 1997) | - |
| "Witness" | Mid-American Review 17.2 (Spring 1997) | - |
| "Thermal Belt" | Chariton Review 23.1 (Spring 1997) | - |
| "The Kitchen Window" | Quarterly West 44 (Spring-Summer 1997) | - |
| "The Battered Shore" | Southwest Review 82.3 (Summer 1997) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "Minor Matters" | Cimarron Review 120 (July 1997) |
| "Natural Music" | American Short Fiction 27 (Fall 1997) | - |
| "The Walls of Avila" | CrossConnect 3.2 (October 1997) | - |
| "The End House" | Arkansas Review 28.3 (December 1997) | - |
| "In the Metro" | Witness 11.1 (1997) | - |
| "Rides" | Kinesis 6.1 (1997) | - |
| "Fog" | Press 6 (1997) | - |
| "Watching Marie" | Bridge 7.1 (1998) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "The Playground" | Shenandoah 49.1 (Spring 1999) |
| "The Healing of the Body" | The Sudden Trees (1999) | The Sudden Trees |
| "The Private Lives of Children" | Ontario Review 51 (Fall-Winter 1999-2000) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "The Loves of Joaquin (A Diversion)" | Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly 2.1 (2000) | - |
| "On Painting Women" | Thin Air 5.1 (2000) | - |
| "To Timimoun" | Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly 3.4 (2001) | - |
| "Anchorwoman" | Five Fingers Review 19 (2001) | - |
| "Hound" | The Literary Review (2001) | - |
| "Senor Alvero" | The Literary Review 46.1 (Fall 2002) | - |
| "Love, and After" | Iron Horse Literary Review 4.1 (Fall 2002) | - |
| "This, My Body" | Witness 16.1 (2002) | - |
| "A Gathering of Women" | Chariton Review 29.1 (2003) | - |
| "I'll Never Leave You" | Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly 6.3 (2004) | I'll Never Leave You |
| "Waiting for the Man" | The Literary Review 49.4 (Summer 2006) | - |
| "About Love" | Southwest Review 95.4 (2010) | - |
| "The Way Back" | The Literary Review 57.1 (Winter 2014) | - |
| "At the San Millan" | Cottonwood 73 (Spring 2017) | - |
| "True Light" | Antioch Review 77.4 (Fall 2019) | - |
| "Put Yourself in My Hands" | Confrontation (Spring 2020) | - |
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