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- Short Story:The Portal (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:The Prairie Wife (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:The President's Doubles (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Process Is a Process All Its Own (Peter Straub)
- Short Story:The Prospectors (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:The Provincials (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:The Psychology Game (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:The Quiet Car (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Race Goes to the Swiftest (Barry Lopez)
- Short Story:The Rare Earth (Biram Mboob)
- Short Story:The Red Thread (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Refuge (Kochava Greene)
- Short Story:The Relive Box (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:The Remedy (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:The Resident (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Return (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:The Return (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Right Place to Start a Family (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:The Ring of Kerry (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:The river (adrienne maree brown)
- Short Story:The Rooms Are High (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:The Runner's Ball (Ashtyn Foster)
- Short Story:The Sailor in the Picture (Eileen Dreyer)
- Short Story:The Saint of the Sidewalks (Kat Howard)
- Short Story:The Salted Leg (Gary Lee Miller)
- Short Story:The Same Deep Waters as You (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:The Scavenger's Nursery (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Score (Chanel Harry)
- Short Story:The Scrape of Tooth and Bone (Ada Hoffmann)
- Short Story:The Seals (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:The Semplica-Girl Diaries (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Shade Caller (DaVaun Sanders)
- Short Story:The Shallow End (Katie Cotungo)
- Short Story:The Sharp Knife of a Short Life (Hannibal Tabu)
- Short Story:The Shiny Car in the Night (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:The Shot (Eric Rutter)
- Short Story:The Shrew Tree (Liza Ward)
- Short Story:The Siege at Whale Cay (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:The Snow Angel (Doug Allyn)
- Short Story:The Snow Train (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Soul in the Bell Jar (K.J. Kabza)
- Short Story:The Soul in the Bell Jar (KJ Kabza)
- Short Story:The Sower (Takim Williams)
- Short Story:The Space Traders (Derrick Bell)
- Short Story:The Stamp Collector (Dave King)
- Short Story:The Starry Crown (Marc E. Fitch)
- Short Story:The Starship and the Temple Cat (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Stories We Tell about Ghosts (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:The Story of Kao Yu (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:The Storyteller’s Replacement (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Street Ends at the Cemetery (Clark Howard)
- Short Story:The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births (José Pablo Iriarte)
- Short Story:The Suitcase (Meron Hadero)
- Short Story:The Sum of Her Expectations (Jack Skillingstead)
- Short Story:The Sweet Warm Earth (Steven Popkes)
- Short Story:The Switch (Excerpt from The Switch II: Clockwork) (Valjeanne Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Tallest Doll in New York City (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Tangled Woods (Emily Raboteau)
- Short Story:The Tank Yard (Michael Noll)
- Short Story:The Taster (Kristen Iskandrian)
- Short Story:The Thing About Shapes To Come (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:The Third Dumpster (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Third Panel (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:The Third Tower (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Thirteen Mercies (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Nina Allan)
- Short Story:The Tin House (Simon Clark)
- Short Story:The Token Superhero (David F. Walker)
- Short Story:The Trial (Joan De La Haye)
- Short Story:The Tunnel at the End of the Light (Geoffrey Thorne)
- Short Story:The Tunnel, or The News from Spain (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:The Twilight Pariah (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:The Venus Effect (Joseph Allen Hill)
- Short Story:The Visitation (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Walk-In (Harley Jane Kozak)
- Short Story:The War Between the Water and the Road (William Alexander)
- Short Story:The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (John Chu)
- Short Story:The Way the World Ends (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:The Weight of the Dead (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:The Weirdos (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:The West Topeka Triangle (Jeremiah Tolbert)
- Short Story:The Wild Side of Life (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:The Wilderness (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:The Witch of Chelsea (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Withering (Tim Casson)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Hill (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Wall (Steven Barnes)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Window (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Women (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The World to Come (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:The World-Made Flesh (Richard Gavin)
- Short Story:The worms crawl in (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:The Wrecker (Ernest Finney)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Year I Learned Everything (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:There and Back Again (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:There's No Place Like Home (Edan Lepucki)
- Short Story:These Deathless Bones (Cassandra Khaw)
- Short Story:They Told Us Not to Say This (Jenn Alandy Trahan)
- Short Story:Thin Cold Hands (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:Things My Mother Left Me (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:Things with Beards (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Things You Can Buy for a Penny (Will Kaufman)
- Short Story:Thirsty for love (Vocab)
- Short Story:This Circus the World (Amber Sparks)
- Short Story:This is as I Wish to be Restored (Christie Yant)
- Short Story:This Is Not a Love Song (Brendan Matthews)
- Short Story:This is Not a Wardrobe Door (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:This Is Not for You (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:This Stagnant Breath of Change (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:Three Bodies at Mitanni (Seth Dickinson)
- Short Story:Three Sisters (Michael Mcguire)
- Short Story:Three Speeches About Billy Granger (Jake Kerr)
- Short Story:Through the Flash (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
- Short Story:Thumbsucker (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:Thunderstruck (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Tierra y Libertad (Madeline Ashby)
- Short Story:Tiger (Nalini Jones)
- Short Story:Tiger Mending (Aimee Bender)
- Short Story:Tillie Dinger (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:To a Good Home (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:To Gaze at the Sun (Clifton Gachagua)
- Short Story:Toast (Kim Adrian)
- Short Story:Today I Am Paul (Martin L. Shoemaker)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tomorrow When We See the Sun (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Tongtong's Summer (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Too Good to Be True (Michelle Huneven)
- Short Story:Too Much Time (Lee Child)
- Short Story:Top Ten Vacation Selfies of YouTube Stars (Preston Lang)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Totaled (Kary English)
- Short Story:Tough Night in Tommyville (Melvin Carter)
- Short Story:Touring with the Alien (Carolyn Ives Gilman)
- Short Story:Toward the Company of Others (Matt Bell)
- Short Story:Train (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Train to Harbin (Asako Serizawa)
- Short Story:Trash (Todd Robinson)
- Short Story:Tread Upon the Brittle Shell (Rhoads Brazos)
- Short Story:Treasure State (Smith Henderson)
- Short Story:Tribute (Jack Skillingstead)
- Short Story:Trip Trap (Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kevin J. Anderson)
- Short Story:Triquetra (Kirstyn McDermott)
- Short Story:Turncoat (Steve Rzasa)
- Short Story:Two Bananas (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Two Opinions (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Two Poems for Hill House (Kevin McCann)
- Short Story:Ugly (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Unauthorized Access (An Owomoyela)
- Short Story:Uncle, Eat (Vanessa Hua)
- Short Story:Underground (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:Unearth (Alicia Elliott)
- Short Story:Universal Horror (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-Existence (Izzy Wasserstein)
- Short Story:Unsafe at Any Speed (Laura Lee Smith)
- Short Story:Up Here (Tristan Hughes)
- Short Story:Vade Retro Satana (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Valedictorian (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Valentine (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:Valley Fieldwork (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Victory Lap (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Visitation (Corinna Vallianatos)
- Short Story:Vladivostok Station (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Voices (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Vulcanization (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Waiting on Joe (Scott Loring Sanders)
- Short Story:Wake-Rider (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Warrior Jesus (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Washed Pure, Washed Clean (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:Water and Oil (Michael Knight)
- Short Story:Waugh (Bryan Washington)
- Short Story:We Are All Monsters Here (Kelley Armstrong)
- Short Story:We Are the Cloud (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:We Are The Ones On The Bus (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:We Are Turning on a Spindle (Joanna Parypinski)
- Short Story:We Keep Them Anyway (Stephanie A. Vega)
- Short Story:We Laugh in Its Face (Barbara L.W. Myers)
- Short Story:We Never Sleep (Nick Mamatas)
- Short Story:Webs (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Weep and Dance (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Weialalalea (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:Welcome to Liberty (Howard Night)
- Short Story:Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station / Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ (Rebecca Roanhorse)
- Short Story:West of Matamoros, North of Hell (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:West of the Known (Chanelle Benz)
- Short Story:Wet with Rain (Lee Child)
- Short Story:What Everyone Knows (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:What Got Into Us (Jacob Guajardo)
- Short Story:What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:What Terrible Thing It Was (Esmé Weijun Wang)
- Short Story:What's Out There? (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:Whatever Comes After Calcutta (David Erik Nelson)
- Short Story:When It Ends, He Catches Her (Eugie Foster)
- Short Story:When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis (Annalee Newitz)
- Short Story:When They Are Done with Us (Patricia Smith)
- Short Story:When They Came to Us (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:When We Were Giants (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:When Your Child Strays from God (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Where Do You Go? (Samar Farah Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Where Would You Be Now? (Carrie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Where's the Harm? (Rebeca Lloyd)
- Short Story:Where's the Harm? (Rebecca Lloyd)
- Short Story:White Carnations (Polly Rosenwaike)
- Short Story:White Mare (Thana Niveau)
- Short Story:Who Is Your Executioner? (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Who Will Greet You at Home (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Why I Won't Be Watching the Last Airbender Movie (Gene Luen Yang)
- Short Story:Why Were They Throwing Bricks? (Jenny Zhang)
- Short Story:Wild Acre (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:Wilderness (Letitia Trent)
- Short Story:Williamsburg Bridge (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Williamsville (Gerri Brightwell)
- Short Story:Windward (Paul D. Marks)
- Short Story:Wingless Beasts (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:Winner Of Everything In The Universe (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Winter Children (Angela Slatter)
- Short Story:Winter, 1965 (Frederic Tuten)
- Short Story:Wish You Were Here (Nadia Bulkin)
- Short Story:With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfbane Seeds (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:With These Hands (L. H. Moore)
- Short Story:Without Inspection (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Wonders of the Shore (Andrea Barrett)
- Short Story:Word Doll (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:Writing Teacher (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Wrong Object (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Y Is for Yangchuan Lizard (Andrew Bourelle)
- Short Story:Yakshantariksh (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Yard Dog (Tade Thompson)
- Short Story:Yesterday (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:You Are Happy? (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:You Are Released (Joe Hill)
- Short Story:You Can Stay All Day (Seanan McGuire (as by Mira Grant))
- Short Story:You Know How the Story Goes (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
- Short Story:You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:You Remember the Pin Mill (David Bradley)
- Short Story:You Too Shall Be Psyche (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych (Kathleen Kayembe)
- Short Story:You'll Apologize If You Have To (Ben Fowlkes)
- Short Story:Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:Youth (Swati Pandey)
- Short Story:Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance (Tobias Buckell)
- Short Story:Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance (Tobias S. Buckell)
- Short Story:ZeroS (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:Zimmer Land (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)

