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- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
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- Short Story:Persephone of the Crows (Karen Joy Fowler)
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- Short Story:Rosalee Carrasco (Tomiko M. Breland)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
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- Short Story:Salutation to Spring (Meridel Le Sueur)
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- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
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- Short Story:Scold's Bridle: A Cruelty (Richard Gavin)
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- 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:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Snow (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
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- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
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- Short Story:Staying Behind (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:Stemming the Tide (Simon Strantzas)
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- Short Story:Still Life with Insects (Brian Kitely)
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- Short Story:Suns That Our Hearts Harden (Carlton Brown)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:Take The Stand, Please (Chester T. Crowell)
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- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:That's What Happened to Me (Michael Fessier)
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- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
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- Short Story:The Abandonment (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Ability to Cry (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
- Short Story:The American Embassy (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Anatomist's Mnemonic (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Angel of the Tenderloin (James Redwood)
- Short Story:The Anniversary Trip (Victoria Lancelotta)
- Short Story:The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:The Apartment Hunter (Brian Moore)
- Short Story:The Apex Predator (William Dylan Powell)
- Short Story:The Apprentice (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Archivists (Daphne Kalotay)
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- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Beach Party (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Fire (I. V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Thing We Will Become (Kristi DeMeester)
- Short Story:The Beekeeper’s Garden (Christopher Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- Short Story:The Best Girls (Min Jin Lee)
- Short Story:The Best We Can (Carrie Vaughn)
- Short Story:The Big Black and White Game (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Big Brown Trout (Robert Travers)
- Short Story:The Big Cat (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Blindfold (Tobias S. Buckell)
- Short Story:The Blood Drip (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:The Blood-Red One (Maxwell Struthers Burt)
- Short Story:The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:The Blue Fairy's Manifesto (Annalee Newitz)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Blue Sash (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Boundary (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Boy in the Green Hat (Norma Klein)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Breeze in the Boughs (Jennifer Marie Brissett)
- Short Story:The Bride of Frankenstein (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The Briefcase (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:The Broad Estates of Death (Paula Fox)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wheel (Sirak Goryan)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcher (Wilma Shore)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Caller (Meyer Liben)
- Short Story:The Callers (Ramsey Campbell)
- Short Story:The Cape (Esther McCoy)
- Short Story:The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:The Carpenter and the Beast of Teeth (Micah Dean Hicks)

