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- Short Story:Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lowland Sea (Suzy McKee Charnas)
- Short Story:Loyalty (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Lucy Lucy Lucy (Nikki Dolson)
- Short Story:Magic Man (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Magic Words (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Magician’s Trial (Sarah A. Macklin)
- Short Story:Making Port (Richard Matthews Hallet)
- Short Story:Man In His Time (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Man-Eating Cats (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Man, Woman, Boy (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Manna America (M.C. Schmidt)
- Short Story:Many Dogs Have Died Here (James Mathews)
- Short Story:Mariner's Round (Terry Dowling)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Me and Carlos (Tom Perrotta)
- Short Story:Medium Tough (Craig Davidson)
- Short Story:Meet and Greet (Georgia Smith)
- Short Story:Men, Women, and Chainsaws (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Meneseteung (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Mermaid River (Alexia Arthurs)
- Short Story:Miami-New York (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Midwestern Primitive (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Minstrels of the Mist (Ben Lucien Burman)
- Short Story:Miracle Polish (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Modulation (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Monkeys on the Beach (Ralph Robert Moore)
- Short Story:Monstro (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Moon (Chaim Potok)
- Short Story:Moriya (Dean Paschal)
- Short Story:Morning, a Week Before the Crime (Victoria Lincoln)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:Mother of Invention (Nnedi Okorafor)
- Short Story:Mother's Day (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Motherlode (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying (Alice Sola Kim)
- Short Story:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Kindness (D.W. Gregory)
- Short Story:Mr. Voice (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter (Chitra Divakaruni)
- Short Story:Ms. Filbert's Classroom (Adam Meyer)
- Short Story:Mulberry Boys (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Murder at the Royal Ruby (Nita Prose)
- Short Story:Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness (S. L. Huang)
- Short Story:My Blithe, Sad Bird (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:My Boy Builds Coffins (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:My Brother William (Danica Li)
- Short Story:My Evil Mother (Margaret Atwood)
- Short Story:My Friend Flicka (Mary O' Hara)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:Nachman from Los Angeles (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Naima (Hisham Matar)
- Short Story:Natasha (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:Natural Disasters (Alexis Schaitkin)
- Short Story:Natural Light (Kathleen Alcott)
- Short Story:Naturally (Louis Gurman)
- Short Story:Nemecia (Kirstin Valdez Quade)
- Short Story:Nesters (Siobhan Carroll)
- Short Story:New Poets (Michael Deagler)
- Short Story:Next to Nothing (Stephen O'Connor)
- Short Story:Night of the Cooters (Howard Waldrop)
- Short Story:Night Talkers (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Night Train to Frankfurt (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:Night Watch (Thomas Heggen)
- Short Story:Nightbound (Wallace Stroby)
- Short Story:Nine (Kima Jones)
- Short Story:Nine Yards of Other Cloth (Manly Wade Wellman)
- Short Story:Nine-Tenths of the Law (Molly Tanzer)
- Short Story:Nirvana (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:Nitrate Nocturnes (Ruth Joffre)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Placeholder for You My Love (Nick Wolven)
- Short Story:No Slant to the Sun (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:No Spanish (Moira McCavana)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:Nobody's Business (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:North (Aria Beth Sloss)
- Short Story:North Country (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Notes from Gethsemane (Tade Thompson)
- Short Story:Notes of a Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:NowTrends (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Occupational Hazard (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:Octopus VII (Anna Reeser)
- Short Story:Of Roses and Kings (Melissa Marr)
- Short Story:Ofe! (Rafeeat Aliyu)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Omakase (Weike Wang)
- Short Story:Omphalos (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:On The Dynamics And Evolution Of Supermassive Black Holes (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On the Ship (Leah Cypess)
- Short Story:On This Side (Yuko Sakata)
- Short Story:Once the Shore (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:One Found in a World of the Lost (Shweta Adhyam)
- Short Story:Or All the Seas with Oysters (Avram Davidson)
- Short Story:Oreo (Brandy Colbert)
- Short Story:Organ Cave (Mesha Maren)
- Short Story:Other Worlds and This One (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Our Day of Grace (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Our Vegetable Love (Clay Putman)
- Short Story:Overtime (Charles Stross)
- Short Story:Painted Wolves (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Pass the Baby (Therese Eiben)
- Short Story:Past My Future (David Huddle)
- Short Story:Pastor Dowe At Tacate (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Paying It Forward (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Pedaling (Tuere T. S. Ganges)
- Short Story:Peking Duck (Ling Ma)
- Short Story:Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Peonies (Jamie Fisher)
- Short Story:People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Persephone (Lev Grossman)
- Short Story:Pi in the Sky (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Pig Thing (Adam L.G. Nevill)
- Short Story:Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Police Magic (Brent Lambert)
- Short Story:Poor Unfortunate Fools (Silvia Park)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867 (Kim Fu)
- Short Story:Prelude (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:Preparations for the Body (Derek Palacio)
- Short Story:Pretty (Nancy Welch)
- Short Story:Pretzel Logic (dbschlosser)
- Short Story:Probably Still the Chosen One (Kelly Barnhill)
- Short Story:Proper Library (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:Property (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Public Address System (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Quarterway House (Caitlin Campbell)
- Short Story:Queen Elizabeth (Brad Felver)
- Short Story:Queen Wintergreen (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:Quiet the Dead (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:Rabbit Test (Samantha Mills)
- Short Story:Rabbits (Nell Freudenberger)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Randomize (Andy Weir)
- Short Story:Rat in the Skull (Rog Phillips)
- Short Story:Recitatif (Toni Morrison)
- Short Story:Reclaiming Tess (Brittany Smith)
- Short Story:Red Eye: Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch: An Original Short Story (Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:Redbone (Ada Jack Carver)
- Short Story:Refuge (Adam Stumacher)
- Short Story:Remarks: None (William Wister Haines)
- Short Story:Rememory (Kristen Reynolds)
- Short Story:Return to India (Jenny Bhatt)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Revival Road (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Rewards (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Rhonda and Clyde (John M. Floyd)
- Short Story:Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain (Danielle Evans)
- Short Story:Ripen (Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier)
- Short Story:Robbie (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Root Rot (Fargo Tbakhi)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Ruminations in an Alien Tongue (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Run, Run, Run, Run (A. J. Liebling)
- Short Story:Runaround (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Sabbath Wine (Barbara Krasnoff)
- Short Story:Sacrid's Pod (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Sacrificial Iron (Ted Kosmatka)
- Short Story:Safari (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Salvador (Lucius Shepard)
- Short Story:Same Place (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Sandstorm (Adam O'Fallon Price)
- Short Story:Sarah (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Save the Reaper (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Scales (Cherene Sherrard)
- Short Story:Scream Queen (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:Screenwriter (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:Search for a Future (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Second Chances (Ellen Oh)
- Short Story:Second Wife (Harry Harrison Kroll)
- Short Story:Security (Jeffery Deaver)
- Short Story:Seeing Ershadi (Nicole Krauss)
- Short Story:Selection Week (Hurmat Kazmi)
- Short Story:Sentience (Nkone Chaka)
- Short Story:Seperation anxiety (Evie Shockley)
- Short Story:Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:Sh'khol (Colum McCann)
- Short Story:Shanty Falls (Doug Crandell)
- Short Story:Shape-ups at Delilah’s (Rion Amilcar Scott)
- Short Story:Shell Game (Rumaan Alam)
- Short Story:Shepherd's Hell (Lori D. Johnson)
- Short Story:Shepherds' Business (Stephen Gallagher)
- Short Story:Shine, Pamela! Shine! (Kate Atkinson)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Shooting the Apocalypse (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Show Don't Tell (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Sicko (Stephen Volk)
- Short Story:Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast (Eugie Foster)
- Short Story:Six Months, Three Days (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Skinfolk (Elaine Hsieh Chou)
- Short Story:Skinned (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Slate Mountain (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Sleep (Carly Holmes)
- Short Story:Sleep (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Sleep Walking Now and Then (Richard Bowes)
- Short Story:Slow Burner (Laura Lippman)
- Short Story:Slow Life (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Small Monsters (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:Small Signs (Charlaine Harris)
- Short Story:Snow (John Crowley)
- Short Story:Snowflakes (Ruth Ware)
- Short Story:So Much for Artemis (Patrick Ryan)
- Short Story:So, the Cold War Is Over (Lailee Mendelson)
- Short Story:Soma (Kenan Orhan)
- Short Story:Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill (Mordecai Richler)
- Short Story:Some Other Kind of Happiness (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Some Say the Word (Susan Perabo)
- Short Story:Some Women (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Someone Ought to Tell Her There's No Place to Go (Danielle Evans)
- Short Story:Something Street (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:Something You Can't Live Without (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Son of the Wolfman (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Sarah Pinsker)
- Short Story:Soul Anatomy (Lou Manfredo)
- Short Story:Spell for Grief and Longing (Eboni J. Dunbar)
- Short Story:Spidersong (Susan C. Petry)
- Short Story:Spies (D.Z. Stone)
- Short Story:Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Star Food (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Staus (Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel)
- Short Story:Stay (Leah Bobet)
- Short Story:Steinbeck the Cat (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:Still Life (David S. Garnett)
- Short Story:Still Life with Boobs (Anne Harris)
- Short Story:Stitches (AG Howard)
- Short Story:Stone City (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Stone Hunger (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Substitutes (Ben Hoffman)
- Short Story:Successor, Usurper, Replacement (Alice Sola Kim)
- Short Story:Supernova (Kosiso Ugwueze)
- Short Story:Sur (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Sure. Anything (Reed Farrel Coleman)
- Short Story:SWAJ (Christopher Bollen)
- Short Story:Sweetlings (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:Swift, Brutal Retaliation (Meghan McCarron)
- Short Story:Table Manners (Tanith Lee)
- Short Story:Takeout (Rob Hart)
- Short Story:Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Tattooizm (Kevin Moffett)
