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- Short Story:Nothing Living Lives Alone (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:Novostroika (Maria Reva)
- Short Story:Now We Will Be Happy (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- 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:Off the Highway (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:Ogres of East Africa (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Old Century's River (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:Old Photographs (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Old Solomon's Eyes (Cheryl S. Ntumy)
- Short Story:Old Turkey Neck (George Lanning)
- 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:On the Mountain-Side (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:On These Blackened Shores of Time (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:On Western Winds (Carole McDonnell)
- Short Story:One Bullet. One Vote. (Faye Snowden)
- Short Story:One Giant Leap (Jay Werkheiser)
- Short Story:One of the Boys (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Only Son (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Openness (Alexander Weinstein)
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Our Beans Grow Fat Upon the Storm (Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi)
- Short Story:Our Children (Vanessa Cuti)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Out of Line (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Paid in Full (Sarah A. Macklin)
- Short Story:Palabras (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Palo (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Pan Is Dead (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 Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Paramour (Jennifer Haigh)
- Short Story:Paranoia (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Passengers (Pankaj Challa)
- Short Story:Past Perfect Continuous (Dounia Choukri)
- Short Story:Pat + Sam (Lisa Ko)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Pay Phobetor (Shale Nelson)
- Short Story:Pecos Bill (Moira Crone)
- Short Story:Penance (Elsie Singmaster)
- 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 Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Petunia (Lerato Mahlangu)
- Short Story:Pétur (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Pheasants Of Detroit (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pigeons en casserole (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Planet X (S. A. Partridge)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- 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:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- 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:Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Jane Pek)
- Short Story:Potato Picking (Robert McAlmon)
- Short Story:Practice (Alex Pickett)
- Short Story:Preach on the Dusty Roads (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Pretty Boy Crossover (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Princess Mine (Darby Harn)
- Short Story:Pro Arte (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Proud Monster—Sketches (Ian MacMillan)
- Short Story:Psychological Impact (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Puppy (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Quarry (Micah Nathan)
- Short Story:Racing the Tide (Craig Delancey)
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- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
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- Short Story:Red (Malinda Lo)
- Short Story:Red Cloth, White Giraffe (Yvette Lisa Ndlovu)
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- Short Story:Red Rain. (Adam-Troy Castro)
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- Short Story:Reliable People (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Repairing the World (John Chu)
- Short Story:Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Republica and Grau (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Rescue (Karen Shepard)
- Short Story:Resurrection of a Life (William Saroyan)
- 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:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Rivers Run Free (Charles Payseur)
- Short Story:Road to the Isles (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Rosalee Carrasco (Tomiko M. Breland)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Short Story:Rule Number One (Alan Orloff)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Runway Blackout (Tara Betts)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Sacrifice of Isaac (Michael Seide)
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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)
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- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Sault Ste. Marie (David Means)
- Short Story:Scales (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Scold's Bridle: A Cruelty (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- 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)
- Short Story:Senaa Ahmad—Let's Play Dead (Senaa Ahmad)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Serenade (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Seven (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Seven American Nights (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:Sex Education (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:Shades (William Henry Lewis)
- Short Story:Shadow of a Girl (E. B. Ashton)
- Short Story:Shamengwa (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Shay Corsham Worsted (Garth Nix)
- Short Story:She Rode a Horse of Fire (Kendare Blake)
- 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:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Siege of Love (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Silver Door Diner (Bishop Garrison)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Singing My Sister Down (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Sisi Je Kuisha (We Have Ended) (V. H. Galloway)
- Short Story:Sister (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Sisyphus (C. L. Clark)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Skin City (Kelly Robson)
- Short Story:Sleeper (Jo Walton)
- Short Story:Sleet Storm (Louise Lambertson)
- Short Story:Slingshot (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:Small and Bright (Autumn Brown)
- Short Story:Small Kingdoms (Charlaine Harris)
- Short Story:Small Medicine (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Small Miracle (Adele Dolokhov)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Snow (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- 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:So-Long, Oldtimer (Edmund Ware)
- Short Story:Society (Jeannie Olive)
- Short Story:Soldier Harmon (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Soldier of Fortune (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Some Gods of El Paso (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future (Carlie St. George)
- Short Story:Some Manhattan in New England (Peter LaSalle)
- Short Story:Some Pictures in An Album (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:Someday (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:Something About Love (Alix Ohlin)
- Short Story:Somewhere Out of Nowhere (Jean McCord)
- Short Story:Southwestern Gothic (Nicholas Russell)
- Short Story:Space (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Spaceships (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Spill the Wine (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Split Chain Stitch (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:Spring Story (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Standing Room Only (Karen Joy Fowler)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Station 4 (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Staying Behind (Ken Liu)
- 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:Sucker (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:Summer Dust (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning (Dorothy McCleary)
- Short Story:Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Suns That Our Hearts Harden (Carlton Brown)
- Short Story:Superstructure (Matthew Goldberg)
- Short Story:Supertoys Last All Summer Long (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Symphonesque (Arthur Huff Fauset)
- Short Story:Tabloid News (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
- Short Story:Take The Stand, Please (Chester T. Crowell)
- Short Story:Talk (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:Tea Time (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Tell Him I Waited (Morton Fineman)
- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Tender as Teeth (Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski)
- Short Story:Terrariums (Perry Janes)
- Short Story:Tethered Dogs (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:That City You Visit in Dreams Sometimes (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:That Fine Place We Had Last Year (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:That Frozen Hour (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:That Greek Dog (MacKinlay Kantor)
- Short Story:That Which Smells Bad (Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga)
- Short Story:That's What Happened to Me (Michael Fessier)

