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- Short Story:The Forgotten Songs Incident (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Foster Portfolio (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:The Fragments (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Function of Dream Sleep (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex (Tobias Buckell)
- Short Story:The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex (Tobias S. Buckell)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gentleman of Chaos (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:The Get-Go (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:The Ghost Pit (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Girl (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- 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 Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Girls (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Good Earth Grocery (Richard Dokey)
- Short Story:The Good Thief (Ravi Howard)
- Short Story:The Goophered Grapevine (Charles W. Chestnut)
- Short Story:The Granfalloon (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Great Hunter of the Woods (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Great Interruption: A Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased to Be Told (1935-1978) (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:The Greatest Idea in the World (Samson Raphaelson)
- 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 Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Happiest Man on Earth (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:The Hard Shell (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:The Haunting of Hajji Hotak (Jamil Jan Kochai)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heart's Cartography (Susan Jane Bigelow)
- Short Story:The Heavy Load (William March)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Patrick Morgan)
- Short Story:The Hemlock Tree (Vincent Sheean)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hit (Tom Andes)
- Short Story:The Hodag (Trent Hergenrader)
- Short Story:The Honey Pot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Sarah Read)
- 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 Houses that Are Left Behind (Brenda Walker)
- Short Story:The Human Fly (Ralph Gustafon)
- Short Story:The Human Phonograph (Jonathan Tel)
- Short Story:The Hunch (A. H. Z. Carr)
- Short Story:The Ice Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Illumination (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Imaginary Jew (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Immortal Woman (Allen Tate)
- Short Story:The Incident of 10 November (Jeffery Deaver)
- Short Story:The Incursus, by Asimov-NN71 (Gord Sellar)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- 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 Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Jaws of Ouroboros (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:The Joybell (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Kick the Bucket Tour (Jo Perry)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Killer (Delia C. Pitts)
- Short Story:The Killers (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The Kimono (Ira V. Morris)
- 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 Exorcist (Danny Lore)
- 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 Lesser Gift (Leonard L. Hess)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Life of the Mind (Weldon Kees)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Little Black Boys (Clara Laidlaw)
- Short Story:The Lone Pioneer (William E. Wilson)
- Short Story:The Lonely Sea in the Sky (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Lost Order (Rivka Galchen)
- Short Story:The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Lovers (John Berryman)
- Short Story:The Lubbeny Kiss (Louise Rice)
- Short Story:The Magician's Apprentice (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Maldives (Achy Obejas)
- Short Story:The Man I Could Be (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Mirror (Adelaide Gerstley)
- 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 Metal Bowl (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Middle Drawer (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Midnight Zone (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:The Mirror (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Model House (William Hazlett Upson)
- 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 Powerful Weapon (Jake Lithua)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mountain Top (Georgia Ruth)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Murder (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Mustydines Was Ripe (Howell Vines)
- Short Story:The Mysteries of Eleusis (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Myth of You (Kurt Fawver)
- Short Story:The Narrows (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (Shannon Cain)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- 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 Nine-Tailed Fox Explains (Jane Pek)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- 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 Numbers (Christopher Burns)
- Short Story:The Nurse (Ben Ames Williams)
- 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 Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The One They Took Before (Kelly Sandoval)
- Short Story:The Ones Who Stay and Fight (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Other Room (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:The Oval Filter (Lamar Giles)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
- 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 Patriot (William Polk)
- Short Story:The Peach Stone (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Pension (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- 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 Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- 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 Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- 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 Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quarrel (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Quiet Car (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rat is a Mouse (Hal Ellson)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The red bow (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Red Thread (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- 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 Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Right Place to Start a Family (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:The Rising River (Daniel Kaysen)
- Short Story:The river (adrienne maree brown)
- Short Story:The Room (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The S.S. Libertad (Eyre De Lanux)
- Short Story:The Saint of the Sidewalks (Kat Howard)
- Short Story:The Sand Castle (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The Scarecrow (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:The Scavenger's Nursery (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Scratchboard Project (John Michael Cummings)
- Short Story:The Search (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:The Second Bakery Attack (Haruki Murakami)
- 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 Shade Caller (DaVaun Sanders)
- Short Story:The Shame of Gold (Charles J. Finger)
- Short Story:The Shared Patio (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Shiny Car in the Night (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:The Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Show (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Shroud (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silence of Thelonious Monk (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Sleep (Caitlin Horrocks)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- 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 Spaniard (Prudencio de Pereda)
- Short Story:The Specialist's Hat (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:The Spirit of Bois (Karyn Diaz)
- Short Story:The Stagecoach (Griffith Beems)
- Short Story:The Star (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:The Starship and the Temple Cat (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Story of the Stranger (John Cournos)

