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- Short Story:Red (Malinda Lo)
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- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
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- Short Story:Salem (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Salutation to Spring (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sand (Wanda Burnett)
- Short Story:Sanford and Sun (Dawolu Jabari Anderson)
- Short Story:Sarah (Martin J. Hamer)
- 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)
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- Short Story:Savage Planet (Barry B. Longyear)
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- Short Story:Scold's Bridle: A Cruelty (Richard Gavin)
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- Short Story:Secret Stream (Héctor Tobar)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Secrets of the Heart (Charles L. Grant)
- Short Story:See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Kenneth Schneyer)
- Short Story:Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Sofia Samatar)
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- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
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- Short Story:Shadow of a Girl (E. B. Ashton)
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- Short Story:Shay Corsham Worsted (Garth Nix)
