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- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
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- Short Story:Post and Beam, Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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- Short Story:Surviving Adverse Seasons (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:Take Her Up Tenderly (Hoke Norris)
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- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
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- Short Story:Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
- Short Story:Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (James Baldwin)
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- Short Story:Telling the Bees (L. Hluchan Sintetos)
- Short Story:Terminal Procedure (M. Pabst Battin)
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- Short Story:That Thou art Mindful of Him (Isaac Asimov)
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- Short Story:That's the Man! (Mary Brinker Post)
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- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
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- Short Story:The Academy (David Ely)
- Short Story:The Accident (Jesse Stuart)
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- Short Story:The Ambassador (Edward Newhouse)
- Short Story:The Ambassador (Lawrence P. Springarn)
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- Short Story:The Apprentice (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:The Artificial Moonlight (Donald Justice)
- Short Story:The Artificial N------- (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Artist (Edward Falco)
- Short Story:The Artist (Ralph Kaplan)
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- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
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- Short Story:The Banquet Of Crow (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Barber's Unhappiness (George Saunders)
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- Short Story:The Behavior of the Hawkweeds (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:The Bella Lingua (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Best Girlfriend You Never Had (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:The Betrayal (Babette Sassoon)
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- Short Story:The Black Room (John Updike)
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- Short Story:The Blue Serge Suit (John Langdon)
- Short Story:The Boat (Alistair MacLeod)
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- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Bottomless Well (Walter S. Terry)
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- Short Story:The Boy on the Train (Arthur Robinson)
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- Short Story:The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Bridegroom, The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The Broken Globe (Henry Kreisel)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
