Short fiction is something infinite, uncircumscribed, and uninhibited. Even in its finite form, it contains boundless variety and possibility. The present collection, edited by A. Leslie Willson, contains a wide range of work by some of the most accomplished German-speaking writers of our time: Ilse Aichinger, Jurek Becker, Hans Bender, Wolfgang Borchert, Thomas Brasch, Hannah Johansen, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Gerhard Köpf, Siegfried Lenz, Reinhard Lettau, Christa Reinig, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Gabriele Wohmann, and others.