The O Henry Prize Stories 2005

Recommended Stories

Ann Darby, “Pity My Simplicity,” Prairie Schooner

Andrea Dezso, “The Numbers,” McSweeney’s

Tamas Dobozy, “The Inert Landscapes of György Ferenc,” Colorado Review

E. L. Doctorow, “Walter John Harmon,” The New Yorker

Stephanie Koven, “The Events Leading up to the Accident,” Antioch Review

Barbara Klein Moss, “Little Edens,” Southwest Review

Alice Munro, “Runaway,” The New Yorker

Paul Murray, “Anubis,” Granta

Julie Orringer, “The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones,” Zoetrope

Michael Redhill, “Long Division,” Zoetrope

Annette Sanford, “One Summer,” New Orleans Review

Shauna Seliy, “Blackdamp,” Alaska Quarterly Review

Katherine Shonk, “The Wooden Village of Kizhi,” Georgia Review

Scott Snyder, “About Face,” Epoch

Jay Teitel, “Luck,” Toronto Life