Stories

From All Things, All at Once

Title	Original publication details
“Ninety Nights on Mercury”	The Atlantic (February 1998), as “All Things, All at Once”
“As Fate Would Have It”	Boulevard
“Category Z”	The Atlantic
“Dreams of Distant Lives”	Harper’s, reprinted with permission and with additional comment by Referential Magazine
“Gravity”	The Georgia Review
“How Love Is Lived in Paradise”	Kenyon Review
“Love Is the Crooked Thing”	Agni Review
“Martians”	North American Review
“Men of Rough Persuasion”	Daedalus
“One of Star Wars, One of Doom”	The Georgia Review
“Revolutionaries”	The Atlantic
“Sweet Cheeks”	Harper’s
“The Eldest of Things”	Crazyhorse
“The End of Grief”	The Atlantic
“The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance”	The Georgia Review
“The Talk Talked Between Worms”	The Georgia Review
“The Human Use of Inhuman Beings”	Southwest Review
“The Valley of Sin”	Carolina Quarterly
“The View of Me from Mars”	Harper’s
“The Way Sin is Said in Wonderland”	Story
“The Who, the What and the Why”	Boulevard
“What Y Was”	The Idaho Review
“When Our Dream World Finds Us, and These Hard Times Are Gone”	The New Orleans Review
“X”	The Georgia Review

 From Wet Places at Noon

Title	Original publication details
“The Way Sin Is Said in Wonderland”	Story
“On Tuesday Nothing, on Wednesday Walls”	New England Review
“A Man Bearing Snow”	Epoch
“The Human Use of Inhuman Beings”	Southwest Review, as “One More Lie I Learned”
“How One Becomes the Other”	Fiction Syndicate Project (National Public Radio) and Gulfcoast
“As Fate Would Have It”	Boulevard
“A Creature out of Palestine”	Ploughshares
“The Talk Talked Between Worms”	The Georgia Review

From Living After Midnight

Title	Original publication details
“Getting Even”	The Southwest Review
“Freedom, A Theory Of”	The Gettysburg Review
“Sweet Cheeks”	Harper’s
“How Love Is Lived in Paradise”	The Kenyon Review
“The Who, the What and the Why”	Boulevard
“Living After Midnight”	First publication

From Dreams of Distant Lives

Title	Original publication details
“The View of Me from Mars”	Harper’s
“The Happy Parts”
“Here In Time and Not”	The Georgia Review
“Dreams of Distant Lives”	Harper’s, reprinted with permission and with additional comment by Referential Magazine
“Revolutionaries”	The Atlantic
“Once Upon a Time”	The Georgia Review
“Why I Live In Hanoi”	The Southern Review
“Driving His Buick Home”	North American Review
“The Era of Great Numbers”	Epoch
“1963”	The Tampa Review

From Strangers in Paradise

Title	Original publication details
“The End of Grief”	The Atlantic
“The Beauties of Drink: An Essay”	The Iowa Review
“Living Alone in Iota”	Fiction International
“X”	The Georgia Review
“Time and Fear and Somehow Love”	The Georgia Review
“Category Z”	The Atlantic
“The World Is Almost Rotten”	Mid-American Review
“Rolling Thunder”
“Youth on Mars”	StoryQuarterly
“Notes I Made on the Man I Was”
“The Valley of Sin”	Carolina Quarterly
“Where is Garland Steeples Now?”
“I’m Glad You Asked”
“The World of Apples”

Uncollected

“Never Up, Never In,” a chapter of The Putt at the End of the World, a collaborative novel written by Abbott, Dave Barry, Tim O’Brien and others.

“The True Story of Why I Do What I Do,” a 1988 essay on writing in Puerto del Sol’s 25th anniversary issue.

“Pam: The Last Chapter,” an essay in the Spring 2015 issue of Puerto del Sol.

 

Criticism

William Giraldi, “Next Stop, Abbotland: The Stories of Lee K. Abbott.”  Published in the Spring 2007 issue (61.1) of The Georgia Review.  Accessible through JSTOR.

“As Fate Would Have It” is mentioned in “Narrative as Rhetoric,” by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz.

The writer of Great Writers Steal examines the story “Gravity” to isolate elements of craft that may be useful to other writers.

Brief analysis of Abbott’s work by Mark Gottlieb.

Larry Hendricks reviewed Living After Midnight for the Northern Arizona Book Festival.