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- Short Story:Fantasy for Eleven Fingers (Ben Fountain)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Favor (Shimon Tanaka)
- Short Story:Fields of Gold (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Fifth of July (Mary Taugher)
- Short Story:Final Verse (Chet Williamson)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flip Lady (Ladee Hubbard)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:Fool About a Horse (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:For Each of Us (Jack Y. Bryan)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For He Can Creep (Siobhan Carroll)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:For the God of Love, for the Love of God (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:For Want of a Nail (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Foxfire, Foxfire (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Free Radicals (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Frenchman's Ship (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Fresco, Byzantine (Natalie Bakopoulos)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:From a Farther Room (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled (Michael Swanwick)
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- Short Story:Funny Little Snake (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Furtherest (Kaaron Warren)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Galatea (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Ganger (Ball Lightning) (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Garments (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Ghost Girls (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Ghost Knife (Sharon Pomerantz)
- Short Story:Ghost Lover (Lisa Taddeo)
- Short Story:Ghostreaper, or, Life after Revenge (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Ghosts Like Them (Shirley Ann Taggart)
- Short Story:Gifted (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Gilman Street (Michelle Ruiz Keil)
- Short Story:Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus (Neal Barrett Jr.)
- Short Story:Giraffe & Flamingo (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Girl Eats Girl (Gnesis Villar)
- Short Story:Girl with an Ax (John Sandford)
- Short Story:Glimpse Into Another Country (Wright Morris)
- Short Story:God's Caravan (Tiphanie Yanique)
- Short Story:Godmeat (Martin Cahill)
- Short Story:Godmother Tea (Selena Anderson)
- Short Story:Going Deep (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:Gold (Kim Edwards)
- Short Story:Gold (M.F. Beal)
- Short Story:Golden Sun (Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt)
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- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
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- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Gryphon (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Gunpowder Alley (Bill Pronzini)
- Short Story:Hackathon Summers (Coe Booth)
- Short Story:Half Spent (Alice McDermott)
- Short Story:Half-Lives (Tim L. Williams)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Happy Birthday, Honey Vanlandingham (Lee Martin)
- Short Story:Harry and the Monkey (Euan Harvey)
- Short Story:Hart and Boot (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Harvest Song, Gathering Song (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:Haunted Love (Cynthia Leitich Smith)
- Short Story:Haven (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Hazel and Gray (Nic Stone)
- Short Story:He Knew (Donald Antrim)
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- Short Story:Hellion (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Hello Hello (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Helping (Robert Stone)
- Short Story:Herd Immunity (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Here and Now and Then and Forever (Attila Veres)
- Short Story:Herman Melville, Volume I (Victor Lodato)
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- Short Story:His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light (Mimi Mondal)
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- Short Story:House of Wonders (C.E. Ward)
- Short Story:How Frank Died (Paul Christensen)
- Short Story:How I Found My Brother (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:How to Kill Gra' Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ c. 1949) (Kim Coleman Foot)
- Short Story:How to Kill Gra' Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ c. 1949) (Kim Coleman Foote)
- Short Story:How to Lose Everything in Twelve Easy Steps (Alethea Black)
- Short Story:How to Stay Afloat When Drowning (Daniel Braum)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:Howl Palace (Leigh Newman)
- Short Story:Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:Hunter’s Home (Shirley Ann Grau)
- Short Story:Hunting Knife (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Hybrid Vigor (Kelli Jo Ford)
- Short Story:I Happy Am (Jamel Brinkley)
- Short Story:I Remember Nothing (Anne Billson)
- Short Story:I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Julie Hecht)
- Short Story:I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:I Would be Doing This Anyway (Jia Tolentino)
- Short Story:Icarus (Lones Seiber)
- Short Story:Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ House Tour: 1 Per Person (Paul Tremblay)
- Short Story:Icebergs (Alistair Morgan)
- Short Story:ID (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:If God is Watching (Mikki Kendall)
- Short Story:If You Are Lonely And You Know It (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Impossible Dreams (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Improving My Average (Kate Wheeler)
- Short Story:In a Cavern, in a Canyon (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:In A Tropical Minor Key (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Roseau (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:In Spite of Darkness (Alixa Garcia)
- Short Story:In the Absence of Murdock (Terry Lamsley)
- Short Story:In the Aftermath (Eva Freeman)
- Short Story:In the Dying Light We Saw a Shape (Jeremiah Tolbert)
- Short Story:In the Event (Meng Jin)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Image of Man (Gabriella Stalker)
- Short Story:In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin)
- Short Story:In the Region of Ice (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:In the Stillness Between the Stars (Mercurio D. Rivera)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Infinite Love Engine (Joseph Allen Hill)
- Short Story:Influenza (Daniel Menaker)
- Short Story:Instruments of Seduction (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Intercultural (Hannah Mumm)
- Short Story:Interesting Facts (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:Interior: Monkeyboy (Patrick Flanery)
- Short Story:Intervention (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:It Flows from the Mouth (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:It Is What It Is (Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi)
- Short Story:It's a Good Life (Jerome Bixby)
- Short Story:It's Cold Out There (Perdita Buchan)
- Short Story:It's Come to This (Annick Smith)
- Short Story:Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure (Téa Obreht)
- Short Story:Jack, July (Victor Lodato)
- Short Story:Jack's Things (Peggy Shinner)
- Short Story:Javi (Han Ong)
- Short Story:Jaws of Saturn (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:Joe, The Vanishing American (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Julia and Sunny (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:Justice Shiva Ram Murthy (Rishi Reddi)
- Short Story:Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:Katania (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:Kennedy (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:Kind (L. E. Miller)
- Short Story:Kirinyaga (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:Kudzu Boy Dreaming (SJ Powell)
- Short Story:L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Lagomorph (Alexander MacLeod)
- Short Story:Lake Natasink (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Larchmoor Is Not The World (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:Last Day on Earth (Eric Puchner)
- Short Story:Lawns (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Leaving Maverley (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Legend of Two Swimmers (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Letter from Sakaye (Beverly Mitchell)
- Short Story:Life on the Moon (Tony Daniel)
- Short Story:Lijah (Edgar Valentine Smith)
- Short Story:Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart (Elizabeth Eastman)
- Short Story:Little Baseball World (Robert Lowry)
- Short Story:Living to Be a Hundred (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Lo! (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Long Time Lurker, First Time Bomber (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Looker (David Nickle)
- Short Story:Looking for Service (Nathan Oates)
- Short Story:Love Affair (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
- 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 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: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:Mr. Acarius (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Mr. Kindness (D.W. Gregory)
- 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)
