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- Short Story:1,111 Emblems (Hernan Diaz)
- Short Story:1000-Year-Old Ghosts (Laura Chow Reeve)
- Short Story:22XX: One-Shot (Jelani Wilson)
- Short Story:610 North, 610 West (Bryan Washington)
- Short Story:A Big True (Dina Nayeri)
- Short Story:A Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife (Scott Grand)
- Short Story:A Brief Moment of Rage (Bill Davidson)
- Short Story:A Clearing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:A Cruelty (Kevin Barry)
- Short Story:A Damn Fine Town (Arthur Klepchukov)
- Short Story:A Danger to Ourselves (Molly Quinn)
- Short Story:A Dead Djinn in Cairo (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Family (Jamel Brinkley)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Flawless Silence (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Good Home (Karin Lowachee)
- Short Story:A Good Marriage (Ed Kurtz)
- Short Story:A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
- Short Story:A History of China (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Human Stain (Kelly Robson)
- Short Story:A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville (Kyle Minor)
- Short Story:A Leo, Like Jackie O (Jillian Jackson)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Little Customer Service (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:A little not music (LH Moore)
- Short Story:A Love Story (Samantha Hunt)
- Short Story:A Love Story Written on Water (Ashok K. Banker)
- Short Story:A Man Looking for Trouble (Lee Martin)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- Short Story:A Series of Steaks (Vina Jie-Min Prasad)
- Short Story:A Sheltered Woman (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Jai Chakrabarti)
- Short Story:A Subtle Web: A Tale from the Somadeva Chronicles (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:A Tiny Mirror (Eloise C. C. Shepherd)
- Short Story:A Vacuum Is a Space Entirely Devoid of Matter (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:A Visit to Frederik Ruysch's Cabinets (Diane Ackerman)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:Abandoned Places (S. L. Coney)
- Short Story:About My Aunt (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Acres of Perhaps (Will Ludwigsen)
- Short Story:Afterlife of a Stolen Child (Janette Turner Hospital)
- Short Story:Aftermath (LeVar Burton)
- Short Story:Aguacero (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Aguanile (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Ah Been Buked (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:All Her Names (Kali Fajardo-Anstine)
- Short Story:All Our Yesterdays (Andrew Klavan)
- Short Story:All the Day You'll Have Good Luck (Kate Jonez)
- Short Story:All the Time We've Left to Spend (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:All Things Come Around (William Soldan)
- Short Story:All Together Now (Ramez Naam & Jason M. Hough)
- Short Story:Alligator Point (S. P. Miskowski)
- Short Story:Allochton (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:An Account of the Land of Witches (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:An Amount of Discretion (Lauren Alwan)
- Short Story:An Equal Share of the Bone (Karen Osborne)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:An Independent Organ (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:An Unfaded Black (Caleb Michael Sarvis)
- Short Story:Ancient Rome (Kyle McCarthy)
- Short Story:And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:And Songs Don’t End (Osahon Ize-Iyamu)
- Short Story:And the Winners Will Be Swept Out To Sea (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead (Brooke Bolander)
- Short Story:Anyone Can Do It (Manuel Muñoz)
- Short Story:Apocrypha (Richard Lange)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Arcadia (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Are We Not Men? (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Ark of Bones (Henry Dumas)
- Short Story:Art of Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:As Good as New (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Astronaut (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Asymmetrical Warfare (S. R. Algernon)
- Short Story:At Life's Limits (Kiini Ibura Salaam)
- Short Story:At the Bottom of New Lake (Sonya Larson)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Audition (Saïd Sayrafiezadeh)
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- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Back Along the Old Track (Sam Hicks)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
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- Short Story:Banana Triangle Six (Louis Bayard)
- Short Story:Barbara in the Frame (Emmalia Harrington)
- Short Story:Baroness (E. Catherine Tobler)
- Short Story:Base Life (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:Beautiful People (Lisa Taddeo)
- Short Story:Better You Believe (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Between Dry Ribs (Gregory Norman Bossert)
- Short Story:Between the Pilings (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:Big Boss Bitch (Adrienne Celt)
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- Short Story:Black Corfu (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:Black Dog (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Black Like Them (Troy L. Wiggins)
- Short Story:Black No More (excerpt from the novel) (George S. Schuyler)
- Short Story:Black Powder (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Bless This Mess (Amy Reed)
- Short Story:Blood Wedding (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Blueprints for St. Louis (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Blur (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Boca Raton (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Bodega (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Bondye Bon (Monique L. Desir)
- Short Story:Bonus Baby (Joe Donnelly)
- Short Story:Border Crossing (Susan Thornton)
- Short Story:Bounty (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Boys Go to Jupiter (Danielle Evans)
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- Short Story:Bride (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Bride Before You (Stephanie Malia Morris)
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- Short Story:Bright Crown of Joy (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:Brightened Star Ascending Dawn (A. Merc Rustad)
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- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
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- Short Story:By Degrees and Dilatory Time (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Byzantine Empathy (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:Cabin Fever (David Edgerley Gates)
- Short Story:Calved (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Campoamor (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Can You Wear My Eyes (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
- Short Story:Carbon Tet (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Carnival Nine (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (Nick Wolven)
- Short Story:Castle Coeurlieu (Naomi Novik)
- Short Story:Cat Person (Kristen Roupenian)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Chesirah (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Chicago 1927 (Jewelle Gomez)
- Short Story:Chicane (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Children of the Light Fellowship (Francesca Ekwuyasi)
- Short Story:Children Who Fly (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:Christians (Tom Franklin)
- Short Story:Christmas Eve at the Exit (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Click (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Coach O (Robert Hinderliter)
- Short Story:Cold Little Bird (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collard Greens, Hummingbirds and Spider Silk (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Collateral (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:Come on, Silver (Ann Glaviano)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Conceptual Art (Brett Beach)
- Short Story:Concessions (Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali)
- Short Story:Control Negro (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)
- Short Story:Controller (Jesse Kellerman)
- Short Story:Cookie Jar (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Cougar (Maria Anderson)
- Short Story:Counterblast (Marjorie Celona)
- Short Story:Covenant (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew Bourelle)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew D. Bourelle)
- Short Story:Cracks (Xen)
- Short Story:Crave (Lilliam Rivera)
- Short Story:Crossing the River No Name (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Crush Depth (Brendan Dubois)
- Short Story:Dark Warm Heart (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:De MotherJumpers (Celeste Rita Baker)
- Short Story:Dead Air (Nino Cipri)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 1 (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 2 (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Deaf and Blind (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:Death in the Serengeti (David H. Hendrickson)
- Short Story:Defying Definition (Shaun David Hutchinson)
- Short Story:Delhi (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Departures (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Descent (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Destroy the City with Me Tonight (Kate Marshall)
- Short Story:Dispatches from a Hole in the World (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Displaced (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Dog (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Dogs Go Wolf (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Dot Rat (K. McGee)
- Short Story:Dreamer's Recall (Jeff Carroll)
- Short Story:Drive My Car (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Each to Each (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Eddy (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Edge of Innocence (Ced Pharaoh)
- Short Story:Eight Bites (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Endoskeletal (Sarah Read)
- Short Story:Entwined (Brian Tobin)
- Short Story:Epic of Sakina (Shari Paul)
- Short Story:Eqalussuaq (Tim Major)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Everyone From Themis Sends Letters Home (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Excavate (Melody Gordon)
- Short Story:Exit Wound (Nathan Poole)
- Short Story:Expression (Eric Puchner)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:F.A.Q.s (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Fable (Charles Yu)
- Short Story:Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:Fade to Red: Three Interviews About Sebold's Mars Trilogy (Stephen S. Power)
- Short Story:Fail-Safe (Philip Fracassi)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Falls the Shadow (Skip Horack)
- Short Story:Famous Actor (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Fest (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Fifty Shades of Grays (Steven Barnes)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Finnegan's Field (Angela Slatter)
- Short Story:Flight (Trina Corey)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fool Proof (Bruce Robert Coffin)
- Short Story:For Now, Sideways (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:For Something to Do (Elmore Leonard)
- Short Story:For the God of Love, for the Love of God (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Forty Acres and a Mule (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Forty-Four Thousand Pounds (Emma Copley Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Fox Foot (Joanna Pearson)
- Short Story:Foxfire, Foxfire (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Fran's Friend Has Cancer (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Free Your Mind (Kai Leakes)
- Short Story:Freedom is Space for the Spirit (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Funny Little Snake (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:Furious Girls (Juliana Goodman)
- Short Story:Furtherest (Kaaron Warren)
- Short Story:Fury (DB Waters)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Gabe Dove (Sonya Larson)
