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- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
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- Short Story:Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead (KT Bryski)
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- Short Story:For a Beautiful Relationship (Wentzle Ruml III)
- Short Story:For Something to Do (Elmore Leonard)
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- Short Story:Four Generations (Ruth Suckow)
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- Short Story:Foxes (Kimberly King Parsons)
- Short Story:Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Tom Crosshill)
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- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
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- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
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- Short Story:Getting to Williamstown (Hugh Hood)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Girl in Pieces (Graham Edwards)
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- Short Story:Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Gloss (Kola Heyward-Rotimi)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:God Mode (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:God's Agents Have Beards (Emmanuel Winters)
- Short Story:God's Work (Kevin Canty)
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- Short Story:Gold is Not Always (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Good Hope (Enyeribe Ibegwam)
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- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
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- Short Story:Here We Are (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
- Short Story:Hers Too (Wolf Weston)
- Short Story:Herself (James Pooler)
- Short Story:His Finest Moment (Tom Bissell)
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- Short Story:His Happy Place (Zakiya Dalila Harris)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Hold-Time Violations (John Chu)
- Short Story:Hollow (Mia Mingus)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Home Is Where My Mother’s Heart Is Buried (Wole Talab)
- Short Story:Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Home Movie (Jerry M. Burger)
- Short Story:Home-Coming (David Cornel De Jong)
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- Short Story:House on the Moon (William Alexander)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How Hope Found Chauncey (Jervey Tervalon)
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- Short Story:How We Eat (Mark Jude Poirier)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
