The burning / Jack Cady -- A mussel named Ecclesiastes / George Dickerson -- The Vicar-General and the wide night / Harris Downey -- The academy / David Ely -- Mr. Acarius / William Faulkner -- The beach party / Shirley Ann Grau -- Places we lost / Mary Hedin -- Getting to Williamstown / Hugh Hood -- The bus / Shirley Jackson -- On the island / Josephine Jacobsen -- The broken globe / Henry Kreisel -- One summer / Mary Lavin -- Mourning call / Curt Leviant -- Further tales about men and women / William Maxwell -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Pluto is the furthest planet / Abraham Rothberg -- The bottomless well / Walter S. Terry -- Autumn full of apples / Dan Wakefield -- One night for several Samurai / Joseph Whitehill -- Dovisch in the wilderness / Herbert Wilner.   Bibliographical notes: p. 359-366. "The yearbook of the American short story/Role of honor, 1965": pages 369-377. "Addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": pages 379-381.