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- Short Story:In the Words of (Julie Hayden)
- Short Story:In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond (Devon Jersild)
- Short Story:Inexorable Progress (Mary Hood)
- Short Story:Infinities (Vandana Singh)
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- Short Story:Intertextuality (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Intervention (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into Silence (Marlin Barton)
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- Short Story:Into the Wind (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
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- Short Story:Kavita Through Glass (Emily Ishem Raboteau)
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- Short Story:Killing Babies (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Killing Babies (T.C. Boyle)
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- Short Story:L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:La Vita Nuova (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Labor Day Dinner (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
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- Short Story:Landscape and Dream (Nancy Krusoe)
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- Short Story:Liking What You See: A Documentary (Ted Chiang)
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- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Little Frogs in a Ditch (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:Little Gods (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Live Life King-Sized, Live Life King-Sized (Hester Kaplan)
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- Short Story:Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story (John Edgar Wideman)
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- Short Story:Long Calls (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
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- Short Story:Loup-garou (R. B. Russell)
- Short Story:Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice (Nam Le)
- Short Story:Love and Hydrogen (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Love Is Not a Pie (Amy Bloom)
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- Short Story:Man and Wife (Katie Chase)
- Short Story:Man-Eating Cats (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
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- Short Story:Material (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:May We Be Forgiven (A. M. Homes)
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- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
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- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:Mr. Nobody at All (Ann Beattie, Harry Mathews)
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- Short Story:Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter (Chitra Divakaruni)
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- Short Story:Mudlavia (Elizabeth Stuckey-French)
- Short Story:Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California (Max Schott)
- Short Story:Muzungu (Namwali Serpell)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:My Brother Eli (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:My Father on the Verge of Disgrace (John Updike)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer (Brendan Matthews)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:My Mother's Garden (Katherine Shonk)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Nachman from Los Angeles (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Natasha (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:Nausea 1979 (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Nawabdin Electrician (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:New York Mining Disaster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Next Door (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Nicodemus Bluff (Barry Hannah)
- Short Story:Night and Day at Panacea (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:Night Talkers (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Night Train to Frankfurt (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:No Friends, All Strangers (Lucy Honig)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:Nobody in Hollywood (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody's Business (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Nothing to Ask For (Dennis McFarland)
- Short Story:NowTrends (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Oh I do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (Christopher Fowler)
- Short Story:Oil and Water (Millicent Dillon)
- Short Story:Old Boys, Old Girls (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:Old Friends (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Old Vemish (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Antler (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Once in a Lifetime (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Once the Shore (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:One Dog Year (Kevin Moffett)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Ostracon (Alex Rose)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Our Town (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Out of Body (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Over By the River (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Pa's Darling (Louis Auchincloss)
- Short Story:Pagan Night (Kate Braverman)
- Short Story:Pain Was My Portion (Beth Harvor)
- Short Story:Painted Ship, Painted Ocean (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Pair a Spurs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Paper Lantern (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Partners (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Passion (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Past My Future (David Huddle)
- Short Story:Pastoralia (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Peacocks (Ernest J. Finney)
- Short Story:Penance (Matthew Crain)
- Short Story:Penguins of the Apocalypse (William Browning Spencer)
- Short Story:People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:People Like That Are the Only People Here (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Phantoms (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pip and the Fairies (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Pipa's Story (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Plaisir d'Amour (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pleadings (John William Corrington)
- Short Story:Police Dreams (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:Polonaise (Abraham Rothberg)
- Short Story:Poltergeists (Jane Shapiro)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Pontius Pilate (John Hagge)
- Short Story:Poor Boy (Lynda Lloyd)
- Short Story:Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Post and Beam, Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Pray Without Ceasing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:Presque Isle (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Prison (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Private Debts/Public Holdings (Kent Haruf)
- Short Story:Prize Tomatoes (Anne F. Rosner)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)

