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- Short Story:The Girl (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:The Girl from the River Barge (Walter Schoenstedt)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Good Earth Grocery (Richard Dokey)
- Short Story:The Good Thief (Ravi Howard)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Great Hunter of the Woods (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Great Silence (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:The Green Book (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Guardian Angel (Frederick Hazlitt Brennan)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hanging of the Schoolmarm (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Hare's Mask (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:The Haunting of Hajji Hotak (Jamil Jan Kochai)
- Short Story:The Heart Specialist (Shuvayon Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Heavy Load (William March)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hired Man (Joan Strong)
- Short Story:The Hit (Tom Andes)
- Short Story:The Hollow Heart (M. F. K. Fisher)
- Short Story:The Honest Wine Merchant (Helena Lefroy Caperton)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Horse Like September (Paul Griffith)
- Short Story:The House Beyond Your Sky (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Houses that Are Left Behind (Brenda Walker)
- Short Story:The Human Fly (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Ice Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Imaginary Jew (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Incursus, by Asimov-NN71 (Gord Sellar)
- Short Story:The Ingredients (Jason Reynolds)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto (R. H. Linn)
- Short Story:The Invention of Separate People (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:The Invitation (Margaret Randall)
- Short Story:The Ishologu (Jonathan Kincade)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Jaws of Ouroboros (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:The Jew (Edwin Seaver)
- Short Story:The jockey (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Kick the Bucket Tour (Jo Perry)
- Short Story:The Killer (Delia C. Pitts)
- Short Story:The Killers (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The King of Sentences (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Land of Plenty (Robert Cantwell)
- Short Story:The Last Cheng Beng Gift (Jaymee Goh)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Dive (Carlos Drake)
- Short Story:The Last Equation (Roger Burlingame)
- Short Story:The Last Hurricane (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Laws of Motion (Caitlin Fitzpatrick)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Life of the Mind (Weldon Kees)
- Short Story:The Light of the Morning (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Lonely Sea in the Sky (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Lost Novel (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Luckiest Man in the World (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Maldives (Achy Obejas)
- Short Story:The Man At The River (Dave Eggers)
- Short Story:The Man I Could Be (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Master Mourner (Benjamin Ehrlich)
- Short Story:The Mayor of Dukes City (S. A. Cosby)
- Short Story:The Men (Jane Mayhall)
- Short Story:The Menorah (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:The Mexican (George McCormick)
- Short Story:The Middle Drawer (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:The Mirror (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Moment (Lawrence M. Schoen)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Beautiful Dress (Peter Stamm)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Mountain Top (Georgia Ruth)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mysteries of Eleusis (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Narrows (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Net (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nimble Men (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:The Nine Billion Names of God (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The North Wind Doth Blow (Evan Coombes)
- Short Story:The Obscure Bird (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:The Obsession of Abel Tangier (Faye Snowden)
- Short Story:The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Women Who Were Skinned (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The One They Took Before (Kelly Sandoval)
- Short Story:The Ones Who Stay and Fight (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Overcoat (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Party Next Door (Ernest Brace)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Past, Of Course (Nikki Vogel)
- Short Story:The Pastry Shop Round the Bend (Makeda K. Braithwaite)
- Short Story:The Path of Pins, The Path of Needles (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:The Patriot (William Polk)
- Short Story:The Pawnshop (John S. Sexton)
- Short Story:The Peach Stone (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The pelican's shadow (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:The Pension (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Pigeon (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Plaster (Laura Barker)
- Short Story:The Pleasures of Solitude (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Poet (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:The Poet (Warren L. Van Dine)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Portable Phonograph (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Presbyterian Choir Sings (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The President's Doubles (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Psychologist (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Psychology Game (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarrel (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Race Goes to the Swiftest (Barry Lopez)
- Short Story:The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Rat is a Mouse (Hal Ellson)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Hat (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Red Thread (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Resurrection and the Life (William C.G. Jitro)
- Short Story:The Return (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:The Return (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Right Place to Start a Family (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The river (adrienne maree brown)
- Short Story:The Romantic Sailor (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Room (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The S.S. Libertad (Eyre De Lanux)
- Short Story:The Saint of the Sidewalks (Kat Howard)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scarecrow (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Scratchboard Project (John Michael Cummings)
- Short Story:The Search (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:The Second Tree from the Corner (E. B. White)
- Short Story:The Secret Goldfish (David Means)
- Short Story:The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:The Sense That In The Scene Delights (Benjamin Demott)
- Short Story:The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Seven Men of Rouen (George Slocombe)
- Short Story:The Shared Patio (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Shawl, The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Shiny Car in the Night (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:The Shroud (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Sound That Frost Makes (Solon R. Barber)
- Short Story:The Sower (Takim Williams)
- Short Story:The Spirit of Bois (Karyn Diaz)
- Short Story:The Star (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The Starship and the Temple Cat (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Stone (Henry Goodman)
- Short Story:The Storm (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Story of the Stranger (John Cournos)
- Short Story:The Storyteller’s Replacement (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Sun and the Rain (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Sun in Exile (Catherynne M. Valente)
- Short Story:The System Was Doomed (Meyer Levin)
- Short Story:The Tabby Cat (Paul Rader)
- Short Story:The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Tallest Doll in New York City (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Terror in the Streets (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:The Test (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:The Third Dumpster (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Third Panel (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:The Thousand-Yard Stare (Hansford Martin)
- Short Story:The Thunderstorm (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Frederick Buechner)
- Short Story:The Time Invariance of Snow (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Time Invariance of Snow (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Token Superhero (David F. Walker)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trial (Joan De La Haye)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trumpet Player (Nicole Givens Kurtz)
- Short Story:The Twilight Pariah (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Unsent Letters of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal (Kelsey Peterson)
- Short Story:The Usual Way (Lina Munroe)
- Short Story:The Valet of the Splendide (Ludwig Bemelmans)
- Short Story:The Valley of the Shadow (T. K. Brown III)
- Short Story:The Valley of Wounded Deer (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Valley of Wounded Deer (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Venus (William Carlos Williams)
- Short Story:The Visitation (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Voice of the Turtle (Edythe Squier Draper)
- Short Story:The Voyage Out (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Voyeurs (Zeyn Joukhadar)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Watermelon Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Way Death Comes (Prudencio de Pereda)
- Short Story:The Way of the Transgresssor (Grace Stone Coates)
- Short Story:The Way Things Are (Jendayi Brooks-Flemister)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The White Battalion (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:The White Pigeon (Gouverneur Paulding)
- Short Story:The Whole World is Outside (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Wild Flower (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Wilderness (Elizabeth Tallent)

