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- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Resurrection and the Life (William C.G. Jitro)
- 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 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 Shade Caller (DaVaun Sanders)
- Short Story:The Shame of Gold (Charles J. Finger)
- 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 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 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)
- Short Story:The Storyteller’s Replacement (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Short Story:The Stupendous Fortune (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:The Sugar-Tit (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Switch (Excerpt from The Switch II: Clockwork) (Valjeanne Jeffers)
- 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 Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- 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 Ticks Will Eat You Whole (Anthony Neil Smith)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- 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 (Weike Wang)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- 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 Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Venus (William Carlos Williams)
- Short Story:The Vishakanya's Choice (Roshani Chokshi)
- Short Story:The Visitor (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:The Walk with Elizanne (John Updike)
- 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 Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Wild Flower (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Wilderness (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:The Wind (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- 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 Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- 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 Wrists on the Door (Horace Fish)
- Short Story:The Young Priest (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Their Name Is Macaroni (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Therapunitive Intervention (Matthew Goldberg)
- Short Story:There's Money In Poetry (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:They Are Us (1964): An Oral History (Jack Lothian)
- Short Story:Thin Cold Hands (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:Things with Beards (Sam J. Miller)
- 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 Isn't the Actual Sea (Corinna Vallianatos)
- 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:Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:Threnody for Stelios (Peter Gray)
- Short Story:Tib's Eve (Ellen Currie)
- Short Story:Tick-Tock (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Tideline (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Tierra y Libertad (Madeline Ashby)
- Short Story:Tiffany Twisted (Ellen Hopkins)
- Short Story:Tiger's Feast (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:Tilamin (Carol B. Duncan)
- Short Story:Till the Morning Comes (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Tillie Dinger (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:To Be (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
- Short Story:To Hell the Rabbis (Ben Maddow)
- Short Story:To Rest and to Create (LA Knight)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:To the Measures Fall (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Toadstools are Poison (John Peale Bishop)
- Short Story:Toast (Kim Adrian)
- Short Story:Today I Am Paul (Martin L. Shoemaker)
- Short Story:Today is Today (Rick Wilber)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Totaled (Kary English)
- Short Story:Tough Night in Tommyville (Melvin Carter)
- Short Story:Toward Happy Civilization (Samanta Schweblin)
- Short Story:Transfiguration (Richard Christian Matheson)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Traveling Salesman (Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas)
- Short Story:Travelogue (Ring W. Lardner)
- Short Story:Treasure Island Alley (Da-Lin)
- Short Story:Treasure State (Smith Henderson)
- 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:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:Turn the Sky to Petals (Anna-Marie McLemore)
- Short Story:Two Words (Molly Giles)
- Short Story:Typical (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Uncharted Waters (Sally Hepworth)
- Short Story:Unction (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Under the Ginkgo Trees (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Under the Ridge (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:Under the Sky (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Understand What I Mean? (Bill Gerry)
- Short Story:Unified Front (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Unshapely Things (Francis Hackett)
- Short Story:Untitled Story (José Garcia Villa)
- Short Story:Up Here (Tristan Hughes)
- Short Story:Utopia, LOL? (Jamie Wahls)
- Short Story:Vade Retro Satana (Maurice Broaddus)
- 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:Vulcanization (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Waiting for Trains (Richard Currey)
- Short Story:Wake-Rider (Vandana Singh)
- 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 Didn't (Stuart Dybek)
- 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:Welding with Children (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:West of the Known (Chanelle Benz)
- Short Story:Wet with Rain (Lee Child)
- Short Story:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:What Hurts is That I Was in a Hurry (Vladimir Cherkasski)
- Short Story:What I Saw From Where I Stood (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- 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:What We Love (Lauren Gibaldi)
- Short Story:Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed (Seymour Epstein)
- 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:Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? (Ken MacLeod)
- 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:Wish You Were Here (Nadia Bulkin)
- Short Story:With Ché in New Hampshire (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:With Footnotes and References (Gar Anthony Haywood)
- 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:Would You Know It Wasn't Love (Hester Kaplan)
- Short Story:Wound the Wind (George Zebrowski)
- Short Story:Writing Teacher (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Wrong Object (Mona Simpson)
- 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 Are Happy? (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:You Become the Neighborhood (Glen Hirshberg)

