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- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Dolphin Story (Joyce Renwick)
- Short Story:The Don's Cinnamon (Ben Stroud)
- Short Story:The Dressmaker's Child (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Drowning (Edward J. Delaney)
- Short Story:The Duchess of Albany (Christine Schutt)
- Short Story:The Dungeon Master (Sam Lipsyte)
- Short Story:The Ease of Living (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The End of Everything (Steve Eller)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The End of My Life in New York (Peter Cameron)
- Short Story:The End of the World as We Know It (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Fare to the Moon (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Farms (Eleanor Henderson)
- Short Story:The Fear (Richard Harland)
- Short Story:The Final Inning (Thomas Glave)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fireman (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Fireman's Wife (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
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- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Forecasting Game: A Story (Felicia Ackerman)
- Short Story:The Fragments (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Funeral Bill (Jason DeYoung)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Gap Year (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall (Kaaron Warren)
- Short Story:The Ghost Pit (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Gift Horse's Mouth (R.E. Smith)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Gilgul of Park Avenue (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Girl on the Plane (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Girls (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Gittel (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Good Samaritan (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:The Good Shopkeeper (Samrat Upadhyay)
- Short Story:The Goosle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:The Governors of Wyoming (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Graceless Age (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Gravity Mine (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Green Book (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Half-Skinned Steer (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Hare's Mask (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:The Headstrong Historian (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Hermit's Story (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The High Divide (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Hit (Tom Andes)
- Short Story:The Hodag (Trent Hergenrader)
- Short Story:The Hofzinser Club (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:The Hollow (James Lasdun)
- Short Story:The Homecoming (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The House Behind a Weeping Cherry (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:The House Beyond Your Sky (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:The House on Ashley Avenue (Ian Rogers)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Ice Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idiot President (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:The Important Houses (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Incredible Appearing Man (Deborah Galyan)
- Short Story:The Indian (Randall Silvis)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (Marilyn Sides)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Johnstown Polka (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The King of Sentences (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Knife Thrower (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Lagerstätte (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:The Lammas Worm (Nina Allan)
- Short Story:The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Last of the O-Forms (James Van Pelt)
- Short Story:The Laugh (Téa Obreht)
- Short Story:The Leather Man (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:The Legend of Pig-Eye (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Letter (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Letter Writer (M. T. Sharif)
- Short Story:The Lie Detector (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Little Boy (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Little Winter (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Lost Order (Rivka Galchen)
- Short Story:The Love Child (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Love of My Life (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lover (Damon Galgut)
- Short Story:The Lover of Women (Sue Miller)
- Short Story:The Lunatics (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:The Magician's Apprentice (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Mail Lady (David Gates)
- Short Story:The Man At The River (Dave Eggers)
- Short Story:The Man from the Peak (Adam Golaski)
- Short Story:The Man in the Black Suit (Stephen King)
- Short Story:The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:The Mine from Nicaragua (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:The Mirror (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Moment (Lawrence M. Schoen)
- Short Story:The Moraine (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mud Below (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Mushroom Hunter (Doug Lawson)
- Short Story:The Naked Lady (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:The Narrows (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Natural Father (Robert Lacy)
- Short Story:The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (Shannon Cain)
- Short Story:The Nimble Men (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:The Obscure Bird (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:The Ordinary Son (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:The Other (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Other Miller (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Other Place (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Peripatetic Coffin (Ethan Rutherford)
- Short Story:The Philter (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:The Photographic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Phototrophic Woman (Annabel Thomas)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Piano Tuner (Tim Gautreaux)
- Short Story:The Pike (Conrad Williams)
- Short Story:The Place To Be (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:The Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Point (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Professor's Houses (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:The Prophet from Jupiter (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:The Provincials (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Rare Earth (Biram Mboob)
- Short Story:The Red Ant House (Ann Cummins)
- Short Story:The red bow (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Rest of Her Life (Steve Yarbrough)
- Short Story:The Reverse Bug (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:The Rich Brother (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:The Ring of Kerry (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Rising River (Daniel Kaysen)
- Short Story:The Robbers of Karnataka (James Spencer)
- Short Story:The Room (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Royal Plams (Matthew Klam)
- Short Story:The Rug (Meg Mullins)
- Short Story:The Sailor in the Picture (Eileen Dreyer)
- Short Story:The Scheme of Things (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Science of Flight (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:The Scratchboard Project (John Michael Cummings)
- Short Story:The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:The Secret Goldfish (David Means)
- Short Story:The Secret of Cartwheels (Patricia Henley)
- Short Story:The Secrets of Bats, The Secrets of Bats (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Semplica-Girl Diaries (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Seventh Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Sex Lives of African Girls (Taiye Selasi)
- Short Story:The Shallow End (Katie Cotungo)
- Short Story:The Shared Patio (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Shell Collector (Anthony Doerr)
- Short Story:The Shiny Car in the Night (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:The Show (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silence of Thelonious Monk (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Silver Screen (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Sleep (Caitlin Horrocks)
- Short Story:The Smile on Happy Chang's Face (Tom Perrotta)
- Short Story:The Smoker (David Schickler)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Songs of Reba Love Jackson (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Statue of Liberty (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Street Ends at the Cemetery (Clark Howard)
- Short Story:The Stucco House (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Short Story:The Sudden Trees (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:The Sugar-Tit (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:The Tale of the Golden Eagle (David D. Levine)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Taming Power of the Small (Will Blythe)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:The Thing Around Them, The Thing Around Them (Marilyn Krysl)
- Short Story:The Thing in the Forest (A. S. Byatt)
- Short Story:The Things (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:The Third and Final Continent (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Third Count (Andrew Fetler)
- Short Story:The Third Dumpster (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Thirteenth Hell (Mike Allen)
- Short Story:The Tomb Wife (Gwyneth Jones)
- Short Story:The Train (Gale Renee Walden)
- Short Story:The Trial (Joan De La Haye)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trusty (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:The Tumblers (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:The Tunnel, or The News from Spain (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:The Tutor (Nell Freudenberger)
- Short Story:The Twa Corbies (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Ugliest House in the World (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:The Uncharted Heart (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:The Underground Gardens (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Valetudinarian (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Vanishing American (Leslie Parry)
- Short Story:The View from Castle Rock (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Visitor (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:The Voyage Out (John Rolfe Gardiner)
- Short Story:The Walk with Elizanne (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Watch (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Watermelon Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Way People Run (Christopher Tilghman)
- Short Story:The Way We Live Now (Susan Sontag)
- Short Story:The Weirdos (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:The Wer-Trout (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Wilderness (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Winter Father (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:The Wizard (C. S. Godshalk)
- Short Story:The Wizard of West Orange (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Woman of the House (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The World to Come (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:The World-Made Flesh (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:The Worst You Ever Feel (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:The Year I Learned Everything (Roxane Gay)
