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- Short Story:The City Born Great (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Cleaners (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Cocoon (John B. L. Goodwin)
- Short Story:The Comet (W. E. B. Du Bois)
- Short Story:The Company of Others (Sara Freeman)
- Short Story:The Conductor (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Continental Opposite (Evan Lewis)
- Short Story:The Contractors (Lisa Ko)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Convexity of Our Youth (Kurt Fawver)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Cousins (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:The Cousins (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Cracked Teapot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Cryptozoologist (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Daemon King of Engim (Rafeeat Aliyu)
- Short Story:The Dancing Dwarf (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Dark Arts (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- 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 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 Diamond Girl (Courtney Bird)
- Short Story:The Diary of the Rose (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Dignity of Life (Carol Bly)
- Short Story:The Dog (Jack Livings)
- Short Story:The Dog (Nathan Alling Long)
- Short Story:The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Downward Path to Wisdom (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Dressmaker's Child (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Duelist (David Dean)
- Short Story:The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer (Jo Lloyd)
- Short Story:The Ease of Living (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Edge of the World (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Enemy (Pearl S. Buck)
- Short Story:The Era (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
- Short Story:The Faerie Tree (Kathleen Kayembe)
- Short Story:The Faery Handbag (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Fat of the Land (Anzia Yezierska)
- Short Story:The Final Inning (Thomas Glave)
- Short Story:The Fireman (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Fisherman and the Pig (Kameron Hurley)
- Short Story:The Fishermen of Patzcuaro (William Fifield)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Flaw in the Design (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Fox (Conrad Williams)
- Short Story:The Freedom of the Shifting Sea (Jaymee Goh)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Funeral Bill (Jason DeYoung)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Future is Blue (Catherynne M. Valente)
- 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 Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift (Alison Gaylin)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gilgul of Park Avenue (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (Pat Cadigan)
- 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 Graceless Age (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Half Pint Flask (DuBose Heyward)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hand That Fed Me (Isaac Rosenfeld)
- Short Story:The Haunted Palace (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:The Headstrong Historian (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Helpless Ones (Frederick Booth)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The High Divide (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Home at Craigmillnar (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Home Place (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Homecoming (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The Honey House (Mary King)
- Short Story:The House Behind a Weeping Cherry (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The House on Cobb Street (Lynda E. Rucker)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Human Variable (Dan Bevacqua)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Husband Stitch (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Ice Beneath Us (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Iceman (Emma Cline)
- 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 Iron Hut (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Ivory Tower (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Kill Switch (Willy Vlautin)
- Short Story:The King of Ashland County (Caspian Gray)
- Short Story:The Kingsley Drive Chorus (Naira Kuzmich)
- Short Story:The Kitchen Gods (Gulielma Fell Alsop)
- Short Story:The Kite Maker (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Knot Hole (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections (Tina Connolly)
- Short Story:The Last Hit (Robin Yocum)
- Short Story:The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- 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 to Matter (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:The Laugh (Téa Obreht)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Letician Age (Yalitza Ferreras)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Anthony Marra)
- Short Story:The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Little Boy (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Little Witch (M. Rickert)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Long Haul (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Long Memory (Morrigan Phillips)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Man from Away (Brendan Dubois)
- Short Story:The Man Who Cursed the Lillies (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Man Who Saw Through Heaven (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- 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 Marriage in Kairwan (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:The Martian Obelisk (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (Alfred Bester)
- Short Story:The Mermaid Astronaut (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Midnight Host (Gregory Neil Harris)
- Short Story:The Mongerji Letters (Geetha Iyer)
- Short Story:The monster (Crystal Connor)
- Short Story:The Moraine (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mountain to Mohammed (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:The Mourners (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:The Mushroom Hunter (Doug Lawson)
- Short Story:The Mushroom Queen (Liz Ziemska)
- Short Story:The Nanny (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Neighbor Woman Who Knew Things (Gbolahan Adeola)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Night Cyclist (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:The Night of the Satellite (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Nightingales Sing (Elizabeth Parsons)
- Short Story:The Ocean Between the Leaves (Ray Nayler)
- Short Story:The Odyssey Problem (Chris Willrich)
- Short Story:The Oestridae (Robert Levy)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- 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 Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Other Road (Edward L. Strater)
- Short Story:The Owl and the Bens (W. O. Mitchell)
- Short Story:The Pain-eater's Daughter (Laura Mauro)
- Short Story:The Painted Smile (William Kent Krueger)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Pike (Conrad Williams)
- 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 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 Prospectors (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Rare Earth (Biram Mboob)
- Short Story:The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Nicky Drayden)
- 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 Refuge (Kochava Greene)
- Short Story:The Relive Box (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Remedy (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- 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 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 Salted Leg (Gary Lee Miller)
- Short Story:The Scheme of Things (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Science of Flight (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:The Scrape of Tooth and Bone (Ada Hoffmann)
- Short Story:The Screwfly Solution (Alice Sheldon)
- Short Story:The Screwfly Solution (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach (Karen Russell)
- 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 Semplica-Girl Diaries (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Seventh Man (Haruki Murakami)

