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- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dominion (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:Don't Get Me Wrong (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:Don't Go Into the Woods Alone (Gabino Iglesias)
- Short Story:Dorothy (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Down to a Sunless Sea (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Dress Circle (Miranda Siemienowicz)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Echo (Elizabeth Hand)
- Short Story:Eddy (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Eight Minutes (Tanuja Desai Hidier)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emotional Technologies (Chris Kraus)
- Short Story:Encounters with Unexpected Animals (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:End as a World (F. L. Wallace)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Episode in a Machine Age (Cambray Brown)
- Short Story:Escape from the Dysphesiac People (Brandon Hobson)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Evening (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Excavate (Melody Gordon)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Exchange Value (Charles Johnson)
- Short Story:Exhortation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Exiles From the Creuse (Mary Mian)
- Short Story:Extra Men (Harrison Rhodes)
- Short Story:Extra! Extra! (Robert E. Sherwood)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fellow-Creatures (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Fever Flower (Josephine Johnson)
- Short Story:Fifteen From Company K (William March)
- Short Story:Final Exam (Megan Arkenberg)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Oboe (James Webber Glover)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Five Times Shiva Met Harry (Sangu Mandanna)
- Short Story:Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Flight (Thaai Walker)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:For Now, Sideways (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Forest Cover (Edna Bryner)
- Short Story:Foreword (Jacqueline Freimor)
- Short Story:Former Marine (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Forty Acres and a Mule (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Four Generations (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Four Short Novels (Joe Haldeman)
- Short Story:Four Worms Turning (Morton Stern)
- Short Story:Fran's Friend Has Cancer (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Frère Jacques (John Cheever)
- Short Story:From Earth to Io, With Love (Adelehin Ijasan)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Getting on in the World (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Girl of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Gloss (Kola Heyward-Rotimi)
- Short Story:God Mode (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:God's Wrath (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Going to Market (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Good Night (Paul Maliszewski)
- Short Story:Good with Boys (Kristen Iskandrian)
- Short Story:Gospodar (Garth Greenwell)
- Short Story:Grandma (Carol Emshwiller)
- Short Story:Grandmother's Nose (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:Gravity (Tracey Baptiste)
- Short Story:Greedy Choke Puppy (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Growing Up In No Time (Philip Damon)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Hail, Brother And Farewell (Sylvan Karchmer)
- Short Story:Half-Past Ten (Alice L. Tildesley)
- Short Story:Halfway Home (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:Hamlet's Dagger (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Handy (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hansel (Andra Diefenthaler)
- Short Story:Happy Days, Sweetheart (Stephanie Kuehn)
- Short Story:Happy Trails (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:Harvest (Rebecca Roanhorse)
- Short Story:Headshot (Julian Mortimer Smith)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Heartwood (Kristine Ong Muslim)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Hello Again (Seth Fried)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All (Naomi (Rahul) Kanakia)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Hippocampus (Adam Nevill)
- Short Story:His Finest Moment (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:His Friend The Pig (Wilson McCarty)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Homing Instinct (Dani McClain)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horizon (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:Horror Story (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Hostage (Mark Wisniewski)
- Short Story:Houdini (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:How Hope Found Chauncey (Jervey Tervalon)
- Short Story:How Jerem Came Home (Paul Kaser)
- Short Story:How the Devil Came Down Division Street (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:How We Eat (Mark Jude Poirier)
- Short Story:I CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Josephine Herbst)
- Short Story:I Love You Mary-Grace (Amelia Mangan)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:I Take Care of Things (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:I Will Follow You (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:I'm a Fool (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Ibrahima and the Green Fishing Net (Omar William Sow)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Île Séche (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Impact Play (Peter Mountford)
- Short Story:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In a Thicket (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:In Portofino (Alan Sullivan)
- Short Story:In the Cage (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Late December (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:In the Museum of Tense Moments (Becky Hagenston)
- Short Story:In The Open Code (Burton Kline)
- Short Story:In the Queue (Keith Laumer)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:In the Shade of the Pixie Tree (Rodello Santos)
- Short Story:In the Twilight (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Interstate Africana (WC Dunlap)
- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Penny Arcade (Claire Massey)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:It Never Happened (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:It Washed Up (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:It's Carnival! (Tiffany D. Jackson)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Jerry (Charles Angoff)
- Short Story:Jerry (Laura Hunter)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Job's Tears (James Still)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Jump (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities (Lettie Prell)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kansas (Stephen Dobyns)
- Short Story:Kattekoppen (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:Kin (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Kingdom Come (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:KT Bryski—Tiger's Feast (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:L'Aquilone du Estrellas or The Kite of Stars (Dean Francis Alfar)
- Short Story:La Pura Verdad (Manuel Muñoz)
- Short Story:La Vita Nuova (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Land of the Blind (Craig Johnson)
- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
- Short Story:Lay Me Low! (Louis Paul)
- Short Story:Lederhosen (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking (Tom Johnstone)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Light of Other Days (Bob Shaw)
- Short Story:Like a Sea Cucumber (Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Like Daughter (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Liquid Air (Inna Effress)
- Short Story:Little Bride (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Little Brown Mouse (Tunde Olaniran)
- Short Story:Little Pig (Anna Taborska)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Livvie is Back (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:Load (Dudley Schnabel)
- Short Story:Lonegan's Luck (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Loneliness is in Your Blood (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Long, Long Ago (Frederick Orin Bartlett)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Lord of the Sand (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Lotophagi (Edward Morris)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Love Interest (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Love Letter (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Love's So Many Things (Clifford Bragdon)
- Short Story:Lungs (Lily Watson)
- Short Story:Lusca (Soleil Knowles)
- Short Story:Lust (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Lygia (Dahlia Adler)
- Short Story:Ma laja (Tracey Baptiste)
- Short Story:Ma's Pretties (Francis Buzzell)
- Short Story:Majorlena (Jane Jakeman)
- Short Story:Makeisha in Time (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Man on a Road (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Man’s Courage (Wyatt Blassingame)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Mantis Wives (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Marriage Quarantine (Kate Walbert)

