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- 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:Kafka's Last Laugh (Vagabond)
- 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:Lalibela (Gabriel Teodros)
- 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:Lost Girls (Jane Yolen)
- 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:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- 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:Manicure (Margaret Leech)
- 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)
- Short Story:Marta (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Mary When You Follow Her (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Masks (Peter Sutton)
- Short Story:Maybe the Sun Will Shine (William March)
- Short Story:Meanwhile (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Meditations on Sun-Ra’s Bassism (Yah Yah Scholfield)
- Short Story:Meet Me In Iram (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Midnight Drives (Andrew Mitchell)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Mirror, Mirror (Vanessa Clark)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Mist on the Meadow (William March)
- Short Story:Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride (Saladin Ahmed)
- Short Story:Money at Home (Upton Terrell)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:More or Less Like a Man (Michael Powers)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Movement (Nancy Fulda)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mr. Hill's Death (S.L. Gilbow)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
- Short Story:Mr. Pigsny (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mr. Splitfoot (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Multo (Samuel Marzioli)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Brother's Second Funeral (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:My Chivalric Fiasco (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Dead Brother Comes to America (Alexander Godin)
- Short Story:My Dear You (Rachel Khong)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Heart is Either Broken (Megan Abbott)
- Short Story:My Name is Ellie (Sam Rebelein)
- Short Story:My Pigeon Pair (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:My Public (Margaret Shedd)
- Short Story:My Russian Cap (Leon Z. Surmelian)
- Short Story:My Snakes (Frieda Vaughn)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Myrrha (Gary Jennings)
- Short Story:Nairobi (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Natalka's Portion (Rose Gollup Cohen)
- Short Story:Navigators (Mike Meginnis)
- Short Story:Nayla (Youmna Chlala)
- Short Story:Needs, Wants, and Dead Things (Kirk A. Johnson)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Neighbors (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:New Bees (Claire Luchette)
- Short Story:Newfoundland Night (Dave Godfrey)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Night and the Lost Armies (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Night Garden (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:Night in Funland (William Peden)
- Short Story:Night of the Living Spa Weekend (M H Ayinde)
- Short Story:Night-Tide (Tessa Gratton)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:No Exit (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:No Final Word (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:None So Blind (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Nor Cease You Never Now (Ren Warom)
- Short Story:Notes on the Plague (Shamar Harriott)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:Now We Will Be Happy (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:O (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:October's Son (Will Kaufman)
- Short Story:Of Breadcrumbs and Constellations (Lindsey Drager)
- Short Story:Of the River and Uncle Pidcock (Jim Kjelgaard)
- Short Story:Ogres of East Africa (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Older Sister (Christine Sneed)
- Short Story:On a Spiritual Plain (Lou Antonelli)
- Short Story:On Little Terry Road (Tom Franklin)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Fringes of the Fractal (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:One Perfect Morning, With Jackals (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only Son (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Origin Story (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Our Neural Chernobyl (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Paddle to Canada (Heather Monley)
- Short Story:Palabras (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Pantera Rex (S.A Cosby)
- Short Story:Papa, Mama and Economics (George Panetta)
- Short Story:Paper Boats (Paul J. Garth)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Paramour (Jennifer Haigh)
- Short Story:Paranoia (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Past Perfect Continuous (Dounia Choukri)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Pay Phobetor (Shale Nelson)
- Short Story:Persephone (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Persephone of the Crows (Karen Joy Fowler)
- Short Story:Persistence of Vision (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Pétur (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Planet X (S. A. Partridge)
- Short Story:Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Jamil Jan Kochai)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Playscape (Diana Peterfreund)
- Short Story:Pleasant Grove (Scott Loring Sanders)
- Short Story:Plink (Kurt Dinan)
- Short Story:Poison (Cyd Athens)
- Short Story:Poisoner in Motley (Louis Brennan)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Portfolio (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Potato Picking (Robert McAlmon)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Prairies (Boyce Eakin)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Press Enter ■ (John Varley)
- Short Story:Princess Anne (Jim Allyn)
- Short Story:Princess Mine (Darby Harn)
- Short Story:Pro Arte (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Puppy (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Push (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Rate Me (Rebecca Schiff)
- Short Story:Ravalushan (Mohammed Naseehu Ali)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Readings in the Slantwise Sciences (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Red (Hillary Monahan)
- Short Story:Red (Malinda Lo)
- Short Story:Red Rabbit (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:Red Rain. (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Referential (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Reliable People (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Requiem Without Sound (Izzy Wasserstein)
- Short Story:Rest Cure (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Revere (Mona Awad)
- Short Story:Revival (Wendi Dunlap)
- Short Story:Revolution Shuffle (Bao Phi)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Riding the Doghouse (Randy DeVita)
- Short Story:Riley and Robot (Arnica Ross)
- Short Story:Risk Management (Alix Ohlin)
- Short Story:Robot (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Robot Dreams (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Roots on Ya (LH Moore)
- Short Story:Rosalee Carrasco (Tomiko M. Breland)
- Short Story:Rubberdust (Sarah Thankam Mathews)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Short Story:Rule Number One (Alan Orloff)

