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- Short Story:The Apple Tree (Trevanian)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
- Short Story:The Astronaut (Christina Wood Martinez)
- Short Story:The Authoress, (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein (Bruce Fleming)
- Short Story:The Bad Hour (Christopher Golden)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- Short Story:The Beginning of Homewood (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Bell Ringer (John Burnside)
- Short Story:The Best Christmas Ever (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:The Best Girls (Min Jin Lee)
- Short Story:The Black Menagerie (Endria Isa Richardson)
- Short Story:The Blind (Sigrid Nunez)
- Short Story:The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (Poe Ballantine)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Body of Theseus (Emir G. Park)
- Short Story:The Bones of the Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Bookseller (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
- Short Story:The Boy Is (Elsie Chapman)
- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
- Short Story:The Breath of War (Aliette de Bodard)
- Short Story:The Breeze (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Brief History of the Dead (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:The Broad Estates of Death (Paula Fox)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Brothers (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Brothers Brujo (Matthew Lyons)
- Short Story:The Buddhist (Alan Rossi)
- Short Story:The Bunchgrass Edge of the World (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Burglar (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Button Bin (Mike Allen)
- Short Story:The Captain and the Quartermaster (C. L. Clark)
- Short Story:The Caretakers (David Nickle)
- Short Story:The Cats Which Cried (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:The Center of the World (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Children (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:The Chinaman (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Christian Bite (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The City Born Great (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Coast of Leitrim (Kevin Barry)
- Short Story:The Cold Room (Lowry Pei)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Color of Wheat in Winter (Jan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Conductor (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Continental Divide (Bob Johnson)
- Short Story:The Continental Opposite (Evan Lewis)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Convict (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Courtship of Widow Sobcek (Joanna Higgins)
- Short Story:The Cousins (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Cousins (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Crevasse (Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:The Cryptozoologist (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Dawn Swings In (Lance Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Day Before the Revolution (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Days of Our Lives (Adam L.G. Nevill)
- Short Story:The Death of Murdo (Konrad Bercovici)
- Short Story:The Deep (Anthony Doerr)
- Short Story:The Delivery (Milton Davis)
- Short Story:The Depressed Person (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Devil Will Be at the Door (David Surface)
- Short Story:The Diamond Girl (Courtney Bird)
- Short Story:The Diary of the Rose (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Disaster Stamps of Pluto (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Disturbance (Ryan Ruff Smith)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Don's Cinnamon (Ben Stroud)
- Short Story:The Downward Path to Wisdom (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Dressmaker's Child (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Dungeon Master (Sam Lipsyte)
- Short Story:The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer (Jo Lloyd)
- Short Story:The Edge of the World (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The End of My Life in New York (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:The Era (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
- Short Story:The Facts in the Case (Grant Leenhouts)
- Short Story:The Faerie Tree (Kathleen Kayembe)
- Short Story:The Faithful (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Fat of the Land (Anzia Yezierska)
- Short Story:The Ferryman (Azam Ahmed)
- Short Story:The First Stone (Grace Sartwell Mason)
- Short Story:The First World (Joseph O'Neill)
- Short Story:The Fisher Queen (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:The Fisherman and the Pig (Kameron Hurley)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flower (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Foreigner (Bill Adams)
- Short Story:The Fox (Conrad Williams)
- Short Story:The Freedom of the Shifting Sea (Jaymee Goh)
- Short Story:The Funeral Bill (Jason DeYoung)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Game of Smash and Recovery (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall (Kaaron Warren)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out (Reginald Bretnor)
- Short Story:The Golden Honeymoon (Ring W. Lardner)
- Short Story:The Good Days and the Bad (Helen Eustis)
- Short Story:The Good Pup (Bridget McKenna)
- Short Story:The Good Samaritan (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:The Good Shopkeeper (Samrat Upadhyay)
- Short Story:The Goosle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:The Granfalloon (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Great Interruption: A Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased to Be Told (1935-1978) (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:The Green Village (Margaret Rhodes Peattie)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hands of Dirty Children (Alejandro Puyana)
- Short Story:The Haunting of the Wilsons by Me and That Bitch Todd (Sydney Emerson)
- Short Story:The Headstrong Historian (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Heart's Cartography (Susan Jane Bigelow)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Hidden Room (Lawrence Williams)
- Short Story:The High Divide (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hillside (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:The Hitch-Hikers (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The Hollow (James Lasdun)
- Short Story:The Homecoming (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The House on Cobb Street (Lynda E. Rucker)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Human Phonograph (Jonathan Tel)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Iceman (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:The Idiot President (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:The Illumination (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Immortal Woman (Allen Tate)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Impulse (Conrad Aiken)
- Short Story:The Indian Uprising (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
- Short Story:The Interior Castle (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Intermediate Class (Sam Allingham)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Ivory Tower (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Judge's Will (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
- Short Story:The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The King of Ashland County (Caspian Gray)
- Short Story:The King of the Cats (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:The King's Daughter (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Kingsley Drive Chorus (Naira Kuzmich)
- Short Story:The Kite Maker (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Land of Milk and Honey (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Short Story:The Last Days of Rodney (Tracey Rose Peyton)
- Short Story:The Last Hit (Robin Yocum)
- Short Story:The Last Meeting (William March)
- Short Story:The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) (Matthew Kressel)
- Short Story:The Last of the O-Forms (James Van Pelt)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Last Testament (Aurelius Raines II)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Letician Age (Yalitza Ferreras)
- Short Story:The Light Brigade (Kameron Hurley)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Anthony Marra)
- Short Story:The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Little Wife (William March)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Lost Phoebe (Theodore Dreiser)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man from the Peak (Adam Golaski)
- Short Story:The Man in the Mirror (Adelaide Gerstley)
- Short Story:The Man Who Cursed the Lillies (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Man Who Won the War (Robert Buckner)
- Short Story:The Management of Grief (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Mankana-kill (L. Penelope)
- Short Story:The Martian Obelisk (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye (Matthew Kressel)
- Short Story:The Mermaid Astronaut (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Midnight Host (Gregory Neil Harris)
- Short Story:The Miracle Girl (Rita Chang-Eppig)
- Short Story:The Mongerji Letters (Geetha Iyer)
- Short Story:The monster (Crystal Connor)
- Short Story:The Monster Makers (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:The Mountain to Mohammed (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:The Mourners (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay (Rin Chupeco)
- Short Story:The Mushroom Queen (Liz Ziemska)
- Short Story:The Myth of You (Kurt Fawver)
- Short Story:The Nanny (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (Shannon Cain)
- Short Story:The New Kid (Murray Heyert)
- Short Story:The Night of the Satellite (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Nightingales Sing (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:The Norm (Elaine Gottlieb)
- Short Story:The Numbers (Christopher Burns)
- Short Story:The Odyssey Problem (Chris Willrich)
- Short Story:The Oestridae (Robert Levy)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Old Order (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Orange Tree (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Other Place (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Other Side of the Street (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Owl and the Bens (W. O. Mitchell)
- Short Story:The Painted Smile (William Kent Krueger)
- Short Story:The Parliament of Beasts and Birds (John C. Wright)
- Short Story:The Party Goers (Halimah Marcus)
- Short Story:The Pathetic Fallacy (Alyssa Pelish)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Percivals: the Bennett Benefit (Eboni J. Dunbar)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Peripatetic Coffin (Ethan Rutherford)
- Short Story:The Phantom in the Maze (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Philter (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Pike (Conrad Williams)
- Short Story:The Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)

