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- 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)
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- 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 Rat is a Mouse (Hal Ellson)
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- Short Story:The red bow (George Saunders)
- 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 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 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 Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The Scarecrow (Vardis Fisher)
- 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 Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Shroud (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- 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 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 Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer (William Saroyan)
- 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 Tin House (Simon Clark)
- 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 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 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 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)
- Short Story:The Wind (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:The Winterberry (Nicholas A. DiChario)
- Short Story:The Witch of Chelsea (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Woman Across the Street (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Hill (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The World Outside (Howard Maier)
- Short Story:The Wrecker (Ernest Finney)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Wrong Man (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:The Young Men Go Down (Harry Hervey)
- Short Story:The Young Priest (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Theft (Katharine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:Their Name Is Macaroni (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Therapy (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:There's Money In Poetry (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:These Deathless Bones (Cassandra Khaw)
- Short Story:They Are Us (1964): An Oral History (Jack Lothian)
- Short Story:They Told Us Not to Say This (Jenn Alandy Trahan)
- Short Story:This Healthy Life (Vicki Baum)
- Short Story:This is as I Wish to be Restored (Christie Yant)
- Short Story:This is Not That Story (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:This Town and Salamanca (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:Those Are As Brothers (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Three Speeches About Billy Granger (Jake Kerr)
- Short Story:THREE TALES FROM SKY RIVER: MYTHS FOR A STARFARING AGE (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Threnody for Stelios (Peter Gray)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tierra y Libertad (Madeline Ashby)
- Short Story:Tiger Baby (JY Yang (Neon Yang))
- Short Story:Tiger's Feast (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:Tilamin (Carol B. Duncan)
- Short Story:Time and Ebb (Vladimir Nabokov)
- Short Story:Titty's Dead and Tatty Weeps (Ursula MacDougall)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Endure (Robert Granat)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Today is Today (Rick Wilber)
- Short Story:Today Will Be a Quiet Day (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Transience (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Trash (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:Trash (Todd Robinson)
- Short Story:Traveling Salesman (Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas)
- Short Story:Travelogue (Ring W. Lardner)
- Short Story:Trick of the Light (Andrew Humphrey)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Triple Jumps (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Triumph of Justice (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Turkey Hunt (Alberta Pierson Hannum)
- Short Story:Turn the Sky to Petals (Anna-Marie McLemore)
- Short Story:Twilight of the God (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Two Words (Molly Giles)
- Short Story:Uncle Rock (Dagoberto Gilb)
- Short Story:Unction (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Under a Wine-Glass (Ellen N. La Motte)
- Short Story:Under the Sky (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Understand What I Mean? (Bill Gerry)
- Short Story:Unearth (Alicia Elliott)
- Short Story:Unshapely Things (Francis Hackett)
- Short Story:Untitled Story (José Garcia Villa)
- Short Story:Utopia of a Tired Man (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:Valaida (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Verona: A Young Woman Speaks (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:Very Low-Flying Aircraft (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Victoria (Hilding Johnson)
- Short Story:Vision in the Sea (Ronald Caldwell)
- Short Story:Voices (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:VRM-547 (W. R. Thompson)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Waltz (Erin Somers)
- Short Story:Warm River (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Was She Wicked? Was She Good? (M. Rickert)
- Short Story:Water and Oil (Michael Knight)
- Short Story:Water Never Hurt a Man (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Water Walkers (Shawn Frazier)
- Short Story:Way Up in De Middle of De Air (Jamie Roballo)
- Short Story:Wayne in Love (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:We Are Turning on a Spindle (Joanna Parypinski)
- Short Story:We Do Like to be Beside (Pete W. Sutton)
- Short Story:We Keep Them Anyway (Stephanie A. Vega)
- Short Story:We Laugh in Its Face (Barbara L.W. Myers)
- Short Story:Weialalalea (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:Welcome Home (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station / Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:What Do You See, Dear Enid? (Grace Flandrau)
- Short Story:What Got Into Us (Jacob Guajardo)
- Short Story:What Happens When You Wake Up In the Night (Michael Marshall Smith)
- Short Story:What Hurts is That I Was in a Hurry (Vladimir Cherkasski)
- Short Story:What is a Miracle? (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:What Men Love For (Dale Ray Phillips)
- Short Story:What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:What Terrible Thing It Was (Esmé Weijun Wang)
- Short Story:What the Thunder Said (Janet Peery)
- Short Story:What Time Is It Now (Colum McCann)
- Short Story:What was Truly Mine (Grace Flandrau)
- Short Story:What's In A Corner (Philip Horton)
- Short Story:What's Out There? (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:Wheels (Tupper Greenwald)
- Short Story:When It Changed (Joanna Russ)
- Short Story:When It Ends, He Catches Her (Eugie Foster)
- Short Story:When It's Time to Go (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:When The Sea Takes You, I Won't Come With (Christian Jerome)
- Short Story:When We Were Giants (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Where I Work (Ann Cummins)
- Short Story:Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Why Were You Sent Out Here? (John Hersey)
- Short Story:Wild Minds (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Wild Plums (Grace Stone Coates)
- Short Story:Windeye (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Windows (Susan Palwick)
- Short Story:Winkelburg (Ben Hecht)
- Short Story:Winter Meeting (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- Short Story:Wissler Remembers (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:With Ché in New Hampshire (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:With Seth in Tana Toraja (Ken Chowder)
- Short Story:With Some Gaiety and Laughter (Frank K. Kelly)
- Short Story:With These Hands (L. H. Moore)
- Short Story:Words Without Music (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Writing Teacher (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Xmas, Jamaica Plain (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Yard Dog (Tade Thompson)
- Short Story:Yearn (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Yoon Ha Lee—Beyond the Dragon's Gate (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Yore (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:You Could Look It Up (James Thurber)
- Short Story:You've Come a Long Way, Mickey Mouse (Bev Jafek)
- Short Story:Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Douglas Adams)
- Short Story:Your Lover Just Called (John Updike)
- Short Story:Your Rover Is Here (LP Kindred)
- Short Story:Ysrael (Junot Díaz)

