“Hard Times”—first published in Sewanee Review, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out”—first printed in Our State magazine, republished in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Ascent”—first published in Tin House, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Night Hawks”—first published in Grist, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Trusty”—first published in The New Yorker, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Back of Beyond”—first published in Tin House, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Lincolnites”—first published in Smoky Mountain Living, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Into the Gorge”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Return”—first published in Mossy Creek Reader, reprinted in Casualties
“Waiting for the End of the World”—first printed in Oxford American, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Burning Bright”—first published in Ecotone, reprinted in Burning Bright
“The Woman Who Believed in Jaguars”—first published in Carolina Quarterly, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Where the Map Ends”—first published in The Atlantic, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven”—first published in The Warwick Review (England), reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes”—first published in The Kenyon Review, republished in Chemistry and Other Stories
“Falling Star”—first published in Crossroads, republished in Burning Bright
“The Magic Bus”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Something Rich and Strange”—first published in Shade 2004, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Dowry”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A Sort of Miracle”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Corpse Bird”—first published in The South Carolina Review, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Dead Confederates”—first published in Shenandoah, reprinted in Burning Bright
“The Woman at the Pond”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A Servant of History”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Twenty-Six Days”—first published in The Washington Post, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Last Rite”—first published in the Greensboro Review, reprinted in This Is Where We Live: New North Carolina Short Stories, Casualties, and Chemistry and Other Stories
“Blackberries in June”—first published in Chemistry and Other Stories
“Chemistry”—first published in Casualties, reprinted in Chemistry and Other Stories
“The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth”—first published in A Carolina Literary Companion, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“The Harvest”—first published in The Book of Men Anthology, edited by Colum McCann
“Badeye”—first published in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“Love and Pain in the New South”—first published in Charleston Magazine, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“Shiloh,” previously entitled “The Return”—first published in TriQuarterly
“Outlaws”—first published in Oxford American