Scribner's best of the fiction workshops, 1998

the long version

A man of few words -- by Judith Claire Mitchell The toilet and Rampal the government official -- by Kiran Desai Your own backyard -- by Adam Marshall Johnson Near to gone -- by Timothy A. Westmoreland Through the timber -- by Carolyn Moon The shooting -- by Richard Elson Forager -- by Natasha Waxman Relevant girl -- by Tenaya Rahel Darlington How the nurse feels -- by Greg Changnon Clean -- by Athena Paradissis Breathe in breath out -- by Coleen Conn Dunkle Apnea -- by Melanie Little Waiting for a crash -- by Christopher A. Pasetto Visitation -- by Aimee LaBrie Durian -- by Sheldon Robert Walcher Zentih -- by Andrew J. McCann Waiting for the Kala -- by Nelinia Cabiles Helen on 86th street -- by Wendi Kaufman The retrofit -- by Christina Milletti The Golem's record -- by Daniel Noah Halpern Pickled Sprouts -- by Naama Goldstein Evacuation order no. 19 -- by Julie Otsuka.