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- Short Story:The Only Way (T.E. Wilderson)
- 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 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 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 Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Pike (Conrad Williams)
- Short Story:The Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Plan (Sigrid Nunez)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- 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 Portal (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Prairie Wife (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:The Prince and the Troll (Rainbow Rowell)
- Short Story:The Promise (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Nicky Drayden)
- 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 Red Summer (Wendy Shaia)
- Short Story:The Refrigerator Cemetery (Mariana Enriquez)
- Short Story:The Relive Box (T.C. Boyle)
- 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 Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Ring of Kerry (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- 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 Sailor in the Picture (Eileen Dreyer)
- Short Story:The Salted Leg (Gary Lee Miller)
- 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 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 Sex Lives of African Girls (Taiye Selasi)
- Short Story:The Shallow End (Katie Cotungo)
- Short Story:The Shape of a Teardrop (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Shot (Eric Rutter)
- 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 Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Six Deaths of the Saint (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico)
- 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 Special World (Tiphanie Yanique)
- Short Story:The Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The St. Anthony Chorale (Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Stamp Collector (Dave King)
- Short Story:The Starry Crown (Marc E. Fitch)
- Short Story:The Stories We Tell about Ghosts (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Story of Kao Yu (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:The Story of Love (Vera Nazarian)
- Short Story:The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births (José Pablo Iriarte)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Suitcase (Meron Hadero)
- Short Story:The Sum of Her Expectations (Jack Skillingstead)
- Short Story:The Summer House (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (Frances Park)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- 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 Swamper (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Sweet Warm Earth (Steven Popkes)
- Short Story:The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves (Violet Allen)
- Short Story:The Tale of the Golden Eagle (David D. Levine)
- Short Story:The Tallest Mountain in the World (Michael Hopkins)
- 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 Things (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:The Third and Final Continent (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- 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 Tiger Came to the Mountains (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Short Story:The Tomb Wife (Gwyneth Jones)
- Short Story:The Tomorrow Box (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:The Touches (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman's Life (Dolph Sharp)
- Short Story:The Transition of Osoosi (Ozzie M. Gartrell)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- 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 Tunnel, or The News from Spain (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:The Ugliest House in the World (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Unborn Ghosts (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Unhappy Hunting Grounds (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Valetudinarian (Joshua Ferris)
- 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 Virtue of Unfaithful Translations (Minsoo Kang)
- Short Story:The Visit (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Visit (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:The Waiting (James Agee)
- Short Story:The Wanton Troopers (Max Steele)
- Short Story:The Warlock (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (John Chu)
- Short Story:The Waveries (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:The Waves (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Way of Cross and Dragon (George R. R. Martin)
- Short Story:The Way the Luck Runs (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Way We Went (Wallace E. Knight)
- 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 Whipping (Felix Noland)
- Short Story:The Whispers of Stars (Thana Niveau)
- Short Story:The White Boat (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:The White Camel (Eugene Wright)
- 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 Wickeds (Gayle Forman)
- Short Story:The Wild Horses (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Wild Side of Life (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Withering (Tim Casson)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Wolves (Senaa Ahmad)
- Short Story:The Woman of the House (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Was Loved (James Stern)
- Short Story:The Woman with No Face (A. L. Goldfuss)
- Short Story:The Women (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Women on the Wall (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The World-Made Flesh (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:The worms crawl in (Laird Barron)
- 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:Theories of Rain (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Theory of Rocketry (C. M. Kornbluth)
- Short Story:There's a Hole in the City (Richard Bowes)
- Short Story:These Cold Strangers (J. T. Ellison)
- Short Story:Things My Mother Left Me (P. Djèlí Clark)
- 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 Bodies at Mitanni (Seth Dickinson)
- Short Story:Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream (James Alan Gardner)
- Short Story:Three Mothers Mountain (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:Three Players of A Summer Game (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Three Sisters (Michael Mcguire)
- Short Story:Three Thousand Dollars (David Lipsky)
- 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 The Bitter End (Richard Matthews Hallet)
- Short Story:To the Least. . . (Henry Exall)
- Short Story:To Those Who Wait (Elick Moll)
- Short Story:Tochi Onyebuchi—How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- 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:Tommy (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tomorrow When We See the Sun (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Tongtong's Summer (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Tony Takitani (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Too Good to Be True (Michelle Huneven)
- Short Story:Tornado Season (Marilyn Manolakas)
- Short Story:Tradition (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Trafficking (Katherine L. Hester)
- Short Story:Train to Harbin (Asako Serizawa)
- Short Story:Traveling Man (Peter Matthiessen)
- Short Story:Tread Upon the Brittle Shell (Rhoads Brazos)
- Short Story:Treasure (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
- Short Story:Treasure (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Treat You Clever (Maristan Chapman)
- Short Story:Trepleff (MacDonald Harris)
- Short Story:Tribute (Jack Skillingstead)
- Short Story:True Believer (Madge Jenison)
- Short Story:Turista (Albert J. Guérard)
- Short Story:Turncoat (Steve Rzasa)
- Short Story:TV People (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Twilight in Southern California (Daniel Fuchs)
- 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:Unbelievable Characters (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:Uncle, Eat (Vanessa Hua)
- Short Story:Uncommon Sense (Hal Clement)
- Short Story:Under the Ackee Tree (Jonathan Escoffery)
- Short Story:Underground (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:Undertow (Jennifer C. Cornell)
- Short Story:Unicorn Variation (Roger Zelazny)

