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- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Lesser Gift (Leonard L. Hess)
- 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)
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- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
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- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
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- Short Story:The Moment (Lawrence M. Schoen)
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- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
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- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
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- Short Story:The Nimble Men (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:The Nine-Tailed Fox Explains (Jane Pek)
- 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 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 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 Party Next Door (Ernest Brace)
- 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 V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- 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 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 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 of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Psychologist (Benedict Thielen)
- 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 Resurrection and the Life (William C.G. Jitro)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- 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 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 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 Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Show (Priya Sharma)
- 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 Spirit of Bois (Karyn Diaz)
- Short Story:The Starship and the Temple Cat (Yoon Ha Lee)
- 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 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 Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- 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 Tin House (Simon Clark)
- Short Story:The Train (Gale Renee Walden)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- 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 Truth About Owls (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Twa Corbies (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- 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 Vishakanya's Choice (Roshani Chokshi)
- 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 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 Women (Richard Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Women (Richard T. Sullivan)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Young Priest (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Their Name Is Macaroni (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:There's Money In Poetry (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:They Are Us (1964): An Oral History (Jack Lothian)
- Short Story:Things You Can Buy for a Penny (Will Kaufman)
- Short Story:This Healthy Life (Vicki Baum)
- 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:Tideline (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Tierra y Libertad (Madeline Ashby)
- Short Story:Tiger's Feast (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:Tilamin (Carol B. Duncan)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Toadstools are Poison (John Peale Bishop)
- Short Story:Toast (Kim Adrian)
- Short Story:Today is Today (Rick Wilber)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- 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:Trip Trap (Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kevin J. Anderson)
- Short Story:Triple Jumps (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Trouble with the Natives (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Short Story:Trust (Larissa Pham)
- Short Story:Turn the Sky to Petals (Anna-Marie McLemore)
- Short Story:Two Words (Molly Giles)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Unction (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Under the Sky (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Understand What I Mean? (Bill Gerry)
- Short Story:Unshapely Things (Francis Hackett)
- Short Story:Untitled Story (José Garcia Villa)
- Short Story:Up Here (Tristan Hughes)
- Short Story:Valaida (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Valley Fieldwork (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Vardoger (Z.K. Abraham)
- Short Story:Very Low-Flying Aircraft (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Victoria (Hilding Johnson)
- Short Story:Vienna Roast (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Voices (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:VRM-547 (W. R. Thompson)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Walking Wounded (John Bart Gerald)
- Short Story:Walking, Walking (Starkey Flythe)
- Short Story:Waltz (Erin Somers)
- 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:We Do Like to be Beside (Pete W. Sutton)
- Short Story:We Keep Them Anyway (Stephanie A. Vega)
- Short Story:Webs (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Welcome Home (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:Wet with Rain (Lee Child)
- Short Story:What Hurts is That I Was in a Hurry (Vladimir Cherkasski)
- Short Story:What Men Love For (Dale Ray Phillips)
- 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:When It Changed (Joanna Russ)
- Short Story:When It's Time to Go (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:When the Gentlemen Go By (Margaret Ronald)
- Short Story:When We Were Giants (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Where I Work (Ann Cummins)
- 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:Williamsville (Gerri Brightwell)
- Short Story:Winter Meeting (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Winter Term (Sallie Bingham)
- 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:Wood Smoke (Ann Chidester)
- Short Story:Words Without Music (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Work (David Plante)
- Short Story:Worms Fill My Mouth (F. Kirk)
- Short Story:Writing Teacher (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Xmas, Jamaica Plain (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Yearn (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Yoneko's Earthquake (Hisaye Yamamoto)
- 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 Rover Is Here (LP Kindred)
- Short Story:Ysrael (Junot Díaz)

