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- Short Story:Makeisha in Time (Racheal K. Jones)
- 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:Marching Through Boston (John Updike)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Marriage Quarantine (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Marta (Chinelo Okparanta)
- 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:Miracle Play (George P. Elliot)
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- Short Story:Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride (Saladin Ahmed)
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- Short Story:More or Less Like a Man (Michael Powers)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Movement (Nancy Fulda)
- Short Story:Mr. Dog (Don Zancanella)
- Short Story:Mr. Hill's Death (S.L. Gilbow)
- Short Story:Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S. Bond)
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- Short Story:Mr. Splitfoot (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Multo (Samuel Marzioli)
- Short Story:Muñeca (Amina Gautier)
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- 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 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: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 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 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: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:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- 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 the Fringes of the Fractal (Greg van Eekhout)
- 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:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Openness (Alexander Weinstein)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:Paranoia (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- 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: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:Poisoner in Motley (Louis Brennan)
- Short Story:Poor Everybody (Robert McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Portfolio (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:Portrait of My Son As A Young Man (Elizabeth H. Middleton)
- Short Story:Potato Picking (Robert McAlmon)
- 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:Ravalushan (Mohammed Naseehu Ali)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Readings in the Slantwise Sciences (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Red (Hillary Monahan)
- Short Story:Red (Malinda Lo)
- Short Story:Red Cloth, White Giraffe (Yvette Lisa Ndlovu)
- 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:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Revere (Mona Awad)
- Short Story:Revival (Wendi Dunlap)
- Short Story:Revolution Shuffle (Bao Phi)
- Short Story:Riding the Doghouse (Randy DeVita)
- Short Story:Riley and Robot (Arnica Ross)
- Short Story:Risk Management (Alix Ohlin)
- 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)
- Short Story:Runway Blackout (Tara Betts)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Sacrifice of Isaac (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Satan's Kingdom (Dennis Tafoya)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Savage Planet (Barry B. Longyear)
- Short Story:Scold's Bridle: A Cruelty (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
- Short Story:Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Kenneth Schneyer)
- Short Story:Self-Reliance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Send Me to the Electric Chair (Clyde Edgerton)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Seven American Nights (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut (Dominica Phetteplace)
- Short Story:Sex Education (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:She Walks in Beauty (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Sherrel (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Shock Treatment (Irwin Stark)
- Short Story:Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare (Astrid Meighan)
- Short Story:Shoes (Frances Gilchrist Wood)
- Short Story:Shoggoths in Traffic (Tobias S. Buckell)
- Short Story:Signal (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Signal (LD Lewis)
- Short Story:Singing My Sister Down (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Singing with All My Skin and Bone (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Sisi Je Kuisha (We Have Ended) (V. H. Galloway)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sister Lilith (Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin City (Kelly Robson)
- Short Story:Sleeper (Jo Walton)
- Short Story:Small and Bright (Autumn Brown)
- Short Story:Small Kingdoms (Charlaine Harris)
- Short Story:Small Miracle (Adele Dolokhov)
- Short Story:Smear (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Snuff (Jodi Angel)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:So Tall the Corn (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Soldier of Fortune (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Solstice (Anne Enright)
- Short Story:Some Agonies Over and Over (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Some Pebbles in the Palm (Kenneth Schneyer)
- Short Story:Some Pictures in An Album (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:Something About Love (Alix Ohlin)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Son (John Updike)
- Short Story:Southwestern Gothic (Nicholas Russell)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Space (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Sparrows (Susan Palwick)
- Short Story:Spelling (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Split Chain Stitch (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Station 4 (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Stemming the Tide (Simon Strantzas)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
- Short Story:Stockholm (Catherine Steadman)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Strike Up a Stirring Music (Berry Fleming)
- Short Story:Suburbia! (Amy Silverberg)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Sweetgrass Blood (Eden Royce)
- Short Story:Tabloid News (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Tags (Walter Dean Myers)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Talk (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Tell Him I Waited (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:Tender as Teeth (Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski)
- Short Story:Tethered Dogs (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)

