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- Short Story:The Polish Rider (Ben Lerner)
- Short Story:The Politics of the Quotidian (Caille Millner)
- Short Story:The Pond God (Lincoln Michel)
- Short Story:The Prairie Wife (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Prince and the Troll (Rainbow Rowell)
- Short Story:The Promise (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Rat (Yohanca Delgado)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Red Ant House (Ann Cummins)
- Short Story:The Red Dress (Sylvia Shirley)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Refrigerator Cemetery (Mariana Enriquez)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Rest of Us (Jenzo DuQue)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Robots of Eden (Anil Menon)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Rooms Are High (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Rug (Meg Mullins)
- Short Story:The Sacred Return (Natanya Ann Pulley)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Sailor in the Picture (Eileen Dreyer)
- Short Story:The Science of Flight (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:The Scrivener (Eleanor Arnason)
- Short Story:The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Secrets of Bats, The Secrets of Bats (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:The Seventh Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Shame of Gold (Charles J. Finger)
- Short Story:The Shape of a Teardrop (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Shrew Tree (Liza Ward)
- Short Story:The Siege (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Siege at Whale Cay (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:The Silent Infare (Armistead C. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Silver Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Singing Lesson (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Snow Train (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Sounds of Old Earth (Matthew Kressel)
- Short Story:The Specialist's Hat (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:The Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Stagecoach (Griffith Beems)
- Short Story:The Stamp Collector (Dave King)
- Short Story:The Starry Crown (Marc E. Fitch)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Story of Love (Vera Nazarian)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Suitcase (Meron Hadero)
- Short Story:The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (Frances Park)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:The Surgeon and the Nun (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:The Surrogate Initiative (Brian Cox)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Sweet Warm Earth (Steven Popkes)
- Short Story:The Switch (Excerpt from The Switch II: Clockwork) (Valjeanne Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves (Violet Allen)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Taster (Kristen Iskandrian)
- Short Story:The Techwork Horse (M. H. Ayinde)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Thing About Shapes To Come (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:The Things (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:The Third Tower (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Thirteen Mercies (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Threshing Ring (Leo L. Ward)
- Short Story:The Tomb of the Forgotten Soldier (Mwanabibi Sikamo)
- Short Story:The Tomb Wife (Gwyneth Jones)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Town Where Money Grew on Trees (Michael Bracken)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Drowning (Dhonielle Clayton)
- Short Story:The Trusty (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:The Ugliest House in the World (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Vanishing American (Leslie Parry)
- Short Story:The Vault (T. D. Mabry)
- Short Story:The Very Pulse of the Machine (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:The Veterans Reflect (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Visit (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Visit (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:The War Between the Water and the Road (William Alexander)
- Short Story:The Warlock (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Water Museum (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (John Chu)
- Short Story:The Way the Luck Runs (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Way We Went (Wallace E. Knight)
- Short Story:The Weaver Retires (Kai Hudson)
- Short Story:The Wedding Cake (Madeleine Thien)
- Short Story:The Wedding Jest (James Branch Cabell)
- Short Story:The Wedding: Beacon Hill (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Weirdos (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The Whispers of Stars (Thana Niveau)
- Short Story:The White Boat (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:The White Horses of Vienna (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The White Hound (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The White Road; Or How a Crow Carried Death Over a River (Marika Bailey)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Window (Ethel Wilson)
- Short Story:The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Withering (Tim Casson)
- Short Story:The Woman of the House (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Woman on the Shore (Marquis W. Childs)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Was Loved (James Stern)
- Short Story:The Woman with No Face (A. L. Goldfuss)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The World-Made Flesh (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:The Worst You Ever Feel (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:The Year of Silence (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Their Losses (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Then Christs Fought Hard (Milutin Krunich)
- Short Story:Theo's Girl (Nancy Willard)
- Short Story:Theory of Rocketry (C. M. Kornbluth)
- Short Story:Therapunitive Intervention (Matthew Goldberg)
- Short Story:There's a Hole in the City (Richard Bowes)
- Short Story:These Cold Strangers (J. T. Ellison)
- Short Story:Thin Cold Hands (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:Things with Beards (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Think of England (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:This Is Not a Love Song (Brendan Matthews)
- Short Story:This Is Not for You (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:This Stagnant Breath of Change (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:This Telling (Cheryl Strayed)
- Short Story:Thoughts and Prayers (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:Three Sisters (Michael Mcguire)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- Short Story:Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:Thumbsucker (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:Tide Pools (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Time's End (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Titanium Mike Saves the Day (David D. Levine)
- Short Story:Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator))
- Short Story:To a Good Home (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:To Buffalo Eastward (Gabriel Bump)
- Short Story:To Gaze at the Sun (Clifton Gachagua)
- Short Story:To Rest and to Create (LA Knight)
- Short Story:To the Least. . . (Henry Exall)
- Short Story:To the Measures Fall (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:To Those Who Wait (Elick Moll)
- Short Story:Tochi Onyebuchi—How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- Short Story:Today I Am Paul (Martin L. Shoemaker)
- Short Story:Today I'm Yours (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:Together Like Hands on a Clock (Jo Telle)
- Short Story:Tom (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:Tom Rivers (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Tomorrow When We See the Sun (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Tongtong's Summer (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Too Good to Be True (Michelle Huneven)
- Short Story:Tornado Season (Marilyn Manolakas)
- Short Story:Totaled (Kary English)
- Short Story:Toward Happy Civilization (Samanta Schweblin)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Trafficking (Katherine L. Hester)
- Short Story:Transfiguration (Richard Christian Matheson)
- Short Story:Travel Stories (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Tread Upon the Brittle Shell (Rhoads Brazos)
- Short Story:Treasure (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
- Short Story:Treasure (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Treasure Island Alley (Da-Lin)
- Short Story:Treasure State (Smith Henderson)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Tribute (Jack Skillingstead)
- Short Story:True Believer (Madge Jenison)
- Short Story:True Faces (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Turista (Albert J. Guérard)
- Short Story:Turn Ever So Quickly (U. S. Andersen)
- Short Story:Turncoat (Steve Rzasa)
- Short Story:TV People (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Twilight in Southern California (Daniel Fuchs)
- Short Story:Two Bananas (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Two For a Cent (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Two Heroes (Harold W. Brecht)
- Short Story:Two Men Free (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Two Truths and a Lie (Sarah Pinsker)
- Short Story:Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge (Melvin Van Der Bark)
- Short Story:Typical (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Uncle, Eat (Vanessa Hua)
- Short Story:Uncommon Sense (Hal Clement)
- Short Story:Under the Ginkgo Trees (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Underground (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:Uniform (Errick Nunnally)
- Short Story:Universal Horror (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Unknown Feathers (Dianne Benedict)
- Short Story:Unstuck (Stephanie Reents)
- Short Story:Until Gwen (Dennis Lehane)
- Short Story:Up From Slavery (Charles R. Larson)
- Short Story:Up the Road a Piece (Ruth McCoy Harris)
- Short Story:Upside Down Frown (Jarred Thompson)
- Short Story:Utopia, LOL? (Jamie Wahls)
- Short Story:Vacia (Agnes Macdonald)
- Short Story:Vade Retro Satana (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Valedictorian (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:Vega (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Vic Primeval (T. Jefferson Parker)
- Short Story:Victory Lap (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Victrola (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:Virgins (Danielle Evans)
- Short Story:Visitation (Brad Watson)
- Short Story:Visitation (Corinna Vallianatos)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:Vladivostok Station (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Volcano (Lawrence Osborne)
- Short Story:Wait (Roy Kesey)
- Short Story:Waiting for Jim (Vera Randal)
- Short Story:Waiting on Joe (Scott Loring Sanders)
- Short Story:War Game (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Warning: Color May Fade (Leah Henderson)
- Short Story:Watch the Animals (Alice Elliott Dark)
- Short Story:Watching Girls Play (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Way to the Dump (E. S. Goldman)
- Short Story:We Are All Monsters Here (Kelley Armstrong)
- Short Story:Weight (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ (Rebecca Roanhorse)
- Short Story:Welding with Children (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:What Can You do with a General (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:What Ever Happened to Lorna Winters? (Lisa Morton)
- Short Story:What Feels Like the World (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:What I Saw From Where I Stood (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:What Kind of a Man Cuts His Finger Off (Rolaine Hochstein)
- Short Story:What We Don't Know Hurts Us (Mark Schorer)
- Short Story:What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:What's Important is Feeling (Adam Wilson)
- Short Story:When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis (Annalee Newitz)
- Short Story:When They Are Done with Us (Patricia Smith)
- Short Story:When They Came to Us (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:When We Remembered Zion (A. J. Jacono)
- Short Story:When You Find a Dragon, Name Them for Me (Tamara Jerée)

