Short Fiction in Periodicals:
"Accomplished Desires." Esquire May 1968: 102-132. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 127-149.
"Act of Solitude." Agni Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 3-20.
"The Action of Mercy." Kenyon Review 20(Winter 1998): 157-160.
"Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly." Antioch Review 51(Winter 1993): 114-139.
"Adultery." Critic 26(Apr.-May 1968): 40-47.
"After Amnesia." Granta 63(Autumn 1998): 187-200.
"All the Beautiful Women." Saturday Evening Post 29 June 1968: 50-52.
"All the Good People I've Left Behind." Redbook May 1977: 235-251. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 145-227.
"Alone." Cosmopolitan May 1984: 330-331, 348.
"American Abroad." North American Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 123-144.
"An American Adventure." Triquarterly 20( Winter 1971): 312-324. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Anatomical Studies." Chatelaine 53(Nov. 1980): 62, 148, 152, 156, 160.
"Ancient Airs, Voices." Antioch Review 50(Winter/Spring 1992): 372-394.
"& Answers." Family Circle Jan. 1973: 12-16, 116-118. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 153-166.
"And How Is Your Life." Cosmopolitan Aug. 1971: 170-175.
"Angst." University of Windsor Review 10(Fall-Winter 1974): 69-86. Reprinted In: The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. 179-200.
"The Antique Clock." Malahat Review 56(Oct. 1980): 118-125.
"Archways." Cosmopolitan Mar. 1965: 76-81. Reprinted In: Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1966. 166-185.
"Assailant." Prairie Schooner 39(Winter 1965-1966): 330-336. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. Prairie Schooner 39(Winter 1965-1966): 330-336. 300-307.
"Assault." Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 12, 1(1973): 56-74. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. Reprinted: Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1976. 438-461.
"At the Seminary." Kenyon Review 27(Summer 1965): 483-502. Reprinted In: Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. 103-124.
"Baby." Ontario Review.
"Back Country." Shenandoah 34, 1(1982-1983): 3-14.
"Back There." Epoch 22(Fall 1972): 87-103. Reprinted In: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 293-314.
"Ballad." Southwest Review 70(Spring 1985): 216-229.
"Ballerina." Georgia Review 34(Winter 1980): 735-750.
"The Bat." Shenandoah 33, 2(1982): 19-33.
"Beautiful Girl." Canto 2(Fall 1978): 1-34.
"The Bequest." New England Review 7(Spring 1985): 386-409.
"Birds of Night." Exile 7, 3-4(1981): 10-35.
"The Birth of Tragedy." Exile 1, 4(1974): 44-65. Reprinted In: The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. 103-130.
"The Birthday Celebration." Virginia Quarterly Review 56(Winter 1980): 51-62.
"Black Dahlia." Ohio Review 34(1985): 104-121.
"Black Eucharist." Canto 1(Fall 1977): 15-38.
"Blindfold." Southern Review 8(Spring 1972): 438-452. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 35-50.
"A Bloodsmoor Romance." Ms. June 1982: 60-61, 98.
"Bloodstains." Harper's Aug. 1971: 82-88. Reprinted In: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 168-185.
"Blood-Swollen Landscape. " Southern Review 11(Winter 1975): 212-225. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 63-77.
"Bodies." Harper's Bazaar Feb. 1970: 122-125. Reprinted From: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 256-281.
"Bound." New Yorker 22-29 Apr. 2002: 202.
"The Boy." Playgirl Dec. 1984: 74.
"Boy and Girl." Prism International 8(Spring 1969): 4-17. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 282-299.
"The Brothers." Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 232-251.
"By the River." December Magazine 10, 1(1968): 72-80. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 127-147.
"Canal Road." Southern Review 20(Summer 1984): 610-631.
"Casualties." Chatelaine 51(July 1978): 40, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62.
"The Changeling." Missouri Review 3(Winter 1980): 43-61.
"Childhood." Epoch 16(Spring 1967): 204-222. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. 51-71. [In revised version as "The Daughter.]
"The Children." Transatlantic Review 32(Summer 1969): 48-63. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 216-236.
"Chloe." Fiction International 18, 1(1984): 132-148.
"Christmas Night 1962." TriQuarterly. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 258-267.
"The Clavichord." Confrontation 20(Spring-Summer 1980): 29-39.
"Concerning the Case of Bobby G." Atlantic Feb. 1973: 84-88, 90-92. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. 15-34.
"Conquistador." Weekend Magazine 17 June 1978: 28-30.
"Convalescing." Virginia Quarterly Review 45(Summer 1969): 430-450. Reprinted In: The Wheel and Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 80-101.
"Corinne." North American Review 260(Fall 1975): 30-42.
"Crossing the Border." New York Times Magazine 1 Dec. 1974: 127. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 9-14.
"The Crystal Sea." Saturday Night 97(Jan. 1982): 40-51.
"The Cure for Folly." TriQuarterly 59(Winter 1984): 29-52.
"Customs." Fiddlehead 102(Summer 1974): 5-14. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 106-117.
"The Dark." Southwest Review 55(Autumn 1970): 334-353.
"dawn, Dusk." Shenandoah 31, 4(1980): 79-86.
"Death Mother." Kenyon Review 17(Summer/Fall 1995): 5-24.
"The Death of Dreams." McCall's July 1971: 70, 115-122. Reprinted [as "The Dead"] In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 453-488.
"December." Carolina Quarterly 35(Winter 1983): 21-30.
"Deja Vu." Missouri Review 2(Fall 1978): 53-69.
"Delia's Adventures." Denver Quarterly 19(Summer 1984): 3-28.
"Delirium and Detachment." New Yorker 26 June-3 July 1995: 134-137.
"Democracy in America." Shenandoah 24(Spring 1973): 21-38. Reprinted In: The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. 10-30.
"Demons." Southern Review 6(Winter 1970): 55-75. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 232-255. Also In: Wild Saturday and Other Stories. London: Dent, 1984. 79-101.
"A Descriptive Catalogue." Carolina Quarterly 25(Fall 1973): 19-38. Reprinted In: The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. 77-101.
"Detente." Southern Review 17(Summer 1981); 584-604. Reprinted In: Last Days. New York: Dutton, 1984. 113-136.
"Detroit by Daylight." Prairie Schooner Summer 1968: 126.
"Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood." Harper's Apr. 1972: 80-88. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 338-360.
"Dies Irae." New Letters 45(Fall 1978): 49-54.
"The Doll." Epoch 28(Winter 1979): 202-218. Reprinted In: Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1994.
"Do with Me What You Will." Excerpts of the Novel. Playboy June 1973: 92-94, 190-193; Antaeus 10(Summer 1973): 66-83.
"The Doomed Girl." Bennington Review Sep. 1980: 2-11.
"Double Solitaire." Michigan Quarterly
"Double Tragedy Strikes Tennessee Hill Family." Carolina Quarterly 24(Winter 1972): 87-99. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Dreams." Prairie Schooner 44(Winter 1969-1970): 331-351. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 83-105.
"The Dungeon." Iowa Review 6(Winter 1975): 1-11. Reprinted In: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 134-148.
"Dying." Transatlantic Review 20(Spring 1966): 64-84. Reprinted In: Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1966. 186-208.
"The Dying Child." Antioch Review 26(Summer 1966): 247-263. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 283-302.
"Early Winter." Fiction Network Magazine.
"Easy Lay." Ploughshares 21(Winter 1995-1996): 182-189.
"The Ebony Casket." Exile 7, 1-2(1980): 21-32.
"Elena." Works in Progress 8(Apr. 1973): 2-16.
"The Embrace." Exile 3, 3-4(1976): 5-19.
"The Enchanted Piano." Harper's Bazaar June 1971: 76. Reprinted In: The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese. New York: Vanguard, 1975. 50-53.
"Exile." Tales 4(Summer 1978): 3-16. Reprinted From: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 186-201.
"Explorations." Remington Review 1(Oct. 1973): 5-18. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 210-225.
"Expressway." California Quarterly 13-14(Spring-Summer 1978): 9-25.
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions." Virginia Quarterly Review 48(Spring 1972): 238-259. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 148-170.
"Eye-Witness." Michigan Quarterly Review 17(Winter 1978): 28-34. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 79-87.
"Eye of the Beholder: The Artist." Omni 14(May 1992): 58+.
"Faithless." Kenyon Review 19(Winter 1997): 81-99.
"Falling in Love in Ashton, British Columbia." Epoch 24(Spring 1975): 279-289. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 212-230.
"Family." Omni 12(Dec. 1989): 74-83.
"Famine Country." Yale Review 66(Summer 1977): 534-550. Reprinted In: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 149-167.
"A Far Countree." Critic 27(Dec. 1968-Jan. 1969): 68-77.
"Fat." Antaeus 2(Spring 1971): 9-21.
"Fatal Woman." Fiddlehead 114(Summer 1977): 25-28. Reprinted In: Playgirl June 1978: 95. Also Reprinted In: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 256-261.
"Fateful Mismatches." Ontario Review 11(Fall-Winter 1979-1980): 5-14.
"The Fine White Mist of Winter." Literary Review 5(Spring 1962): 349-363. Reprinted In: By the North Gate. New York: Vanguard, 1963. 198-216.
"First Death." Mademoiselle June 1978: 188-94.
"First Views of the Enemy." Prairie Schooner 28(Spring 1964): 50-61. Reprinted in Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories. Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1966. 89-102.
"Five Pieces from Azulejos" [Includes "Impotence," "In a Public Place," "Journey," "The Seduction," and "Sunlight/Twilight"]. Transatlantic Review 45(Spring 1973): 133-144. "Fugitive." Yale Review 85(July 1997): 20. Reprinted In: The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese. New York: Vanguard, 1975.
"The Footbridge." California Quarterly.
"For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry." Michigan Quarterly Review 23(Summer 1984): 385-399.
"Four Seasons." Virginia Quarterly Review 42(Winter 1966): 95-107.
"Four Summers." Yale Review 56(Spring 1967): 406-425. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 209-231.
"Free." Quarterly Review of Literature 17,3-4(1971): 415-440. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 125-152.
"Friday Evening." Penthouse Mar. 1980: 110-113, 176-177.
"Frissons." Blast 3(Aug. 1984): 237-256.
"The Funeral." Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Section 19 June 1983: 16.
"Further Confessions." Chicago Review 28(Spring 1977): 61-77. Reprinted In: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 309-330.
"Gargoyle." StoryQuarterly 5-6(June 1977): 93-101.
"Gay." Playboy Dec. 1976: 104, 106, 120.
"Getting and Spending." Playgirl Feb.-Mar. 1973. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Ghost Town." Literary Review 25(Summer 1982): 571-610.
"The Giant Woman." Kansas Quarterly 8(Winter 1976): 45-55. Reprinted In: Night-Side;Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 202-220.
"Gifts." Kenyon Review 28(Fall 1966): 499-520. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975. 25-43.
"A Girl at the Edge of the Ocean." Falcon 4(Spring 1972): 51-67. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 324-343.
"The Girl Who Was to Die." Getysburg Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 180-202.
"The Girl with the Beautiful Face." University Review 33(Spring 1967): 180-188.
"A Girl Worth Two Million." Cosmopolitan Feb. 1969: 120-127.
"The Goddess." Antaeus 13-14(Spring-Summer 1974): 200-217. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 402-424.
"Going-Away Party." Antaeus 36(Winter 1980): 113-130.
"Golden Gloves." Washington Post Magazine 4 Aug. 1985: 13-15, 29. Reprinted In: Raven's Wing. New York: Dutton, 1986.
"The Golden Madonna." Playboy Mar. 1974: 118. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 148-168.
"Good to Know You." Western Humanities Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 35-38.
"The Goose Girl." Fiction. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 108-122.
"Gorgeous." Southern Review 32(Summer 1996): 477-491.
"The Granite Springs Elegies." California Quarterly 22(Summer 1983): 7-18.
"Growing Seasons and Killing Frosts." Agni Review 17(Fall 1982): 57-66.
"The Hallucination." Chicago Review 42, 3-4(1996): 170-181. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 89-101.
"The Handclasp." Kenyon Review 11(Fall 1989): 95-106. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 163-179.
"Happy," Vanity Fair Dec. 1984: 124. Reprinted In: Raven's Wing. New York: Dutton, 1986.
"Happy Onion," Antioch Review 31(Winter 1971-1972): 459-475. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 237-259.
"Harriet Stillman." Saturday Night 93(Nov. 1978): 32-44, 87-94.
"Harrow Street at Linden." Massachusetts Review 24(Winter 1983): 793-817. Reprinted In: Raven's Wing. New York: Dutton, 1986.
"The Haunted House." Kansas Quarterly 12(Winter 1980): 31-43.
"The Heavy Sorrow of the Body." Northwest Review 11,2(1968): 4-26. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love, and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 308-333.
"Hello, Fine Day Isn't It." Malahat Review 38(Apr. 1976): 53-60. Reprinted In: Crossing the Border. New York: Vanguard, 1976. 39-47.
"Help." Southern Review 10(Summer 1974): 698-721. Reprinted In: [As "The Seduction"] The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975. 107-128.
"High." Southern Review 14(Winter 1978): 125-136. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 19-31.
"Honeybit." Confrontation 9(Fall 1974): 25-33. Reprinted In: The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard, 1974. 425-437.
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again." Triquarterly 15(Spring 1969): 5-21. Reprinted In: The Wheel of Love, and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 170-189.
"The Ice Pick." Raritan 11(Winter 1992): 31-40.
"In Memory of an Ex-Friend, a Murderer." Literary Review Spring 1968: 391-93.
"Is Laughter Contagious?" Harper's Magazine Sep. 1991: 72. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 219-231.
"June Birthing." Cosmopolitan. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 203-210.
"Ladies and Gentlemen." Harper's Magazine Dec. 1990: 54-57.
"Life after High School." Atlantic Nov. 1991: 76. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 91-107.
"The Lost Child." Michigan Quarterly Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 252-257.
"Mark of Satan." Antaeus. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 312-326.
"The Missing Person." Glimmer Train Stories Summer 1993: 33-49. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 53-67.
"Mistaken Identity." New England Review 15(Fall 1993): 62-65.
"Mute, Mad Child." Southern Review Summer 1967: 653-720.
"My Warszawa." Kenyon Review 3(Fall 1981): 1-47.
"The Night Nurse." Ploughshares 19(Winter 1993/1994): 104-120.
"Notes on Contributors." Triquarterly Winter 1971. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"On the Gulf." South Carolina Quarterly Fall 1974. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Out of Place." Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1968. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"The Passion of Rydcie Mather." Southern Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 268-289.
"Passions and Meditations." Partisan Review 40, 3(1973). Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Politics." Cosmopolitan. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996.
"Poor Thing." Tikkun 7(May 1992): 27-29.
"The Radio Astronomer." Antaeus 70(Spring 1993): 78-82.
"Raven's Wing." Esquire Aug. 1984: 94-96+.
"The Revenge of the Foot, 1970." Salmagundi. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996.
"The Scarf." Ploughshares 24(Spring 1998): 115-120.
"Secrets." Mademoiselle Nov. 1986: 156+.
"See You in Your Dreams." Southern Review 32(Winter 1996): 95-117.
"Shopping." Ms. Mar. 1987: 50-53+.
"6:27 P.M." Redbook Dec. 1971. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"Splendid Architecture." Antioch Review Fall 1968. Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"The Stone House." Quarterly Review of Literature 13, 3/4(1965). Reprinted In: The Seduction and Other Stories. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975.
"The Sweet Enemy." Southern Review Summer 1967: 653-720.
"They All Just Went Away." New Yorker 16 Oct. 1995: 178-181.
"The Thief." North American Review September 1966: 10-17.
"The Track." Gentleman's Quarterly. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 145-162.
"The Undesirable Table." Raritan 13(Spring 1994): 41. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 213-218.
"The Vision." Michigan Quarterly Review. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 290-311.
Excerpt from What I Lived For. New York 12 Sep. 1994: 106+.
"White Shadow." Kenyon Review 1(Fall 1979): 141.
"Will You Always Love Me?" Story. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill, 1994. Also In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 68-88.
"You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home." TriQuarterly 88(Fall 1993): 65-75. Reprinted In: Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 21-34.