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- Short Story:2043 A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:A Dead Djinn in Cairo (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Forest, or a Tree (Tregan Moore)
- Short Story:A Human Stain (Kelly Robson)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Memory of Wind (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Planned Occasion (Angie Kim)
- Short Story:A Righteous Man (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Show of Faith (Greer Hendricks)
- Short Story:A Terror (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A Wild Rose (Fiona Davis)
- Short Story:Alison's Conviction, Alison's Conviction (Thomas Keneally)
- Short Story:All Saints Day (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Anonymous (Uzodinma Iweala)
- Short Story:Ark (Veronica Roth)
- Short Story:Artie Gottlieb, Consulting Philosopher (Stephen Schottenfeld)
- Short Story:As the Last I May Know (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Ash Wednesday, Ash Wednesday (Paula McLain)
- Short Story:Astronaut (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:At the Bottom of New Lake (Sonya Larson)
- Short Story:Bear Witness (Mary Gaitskill)
- Short Story:Belle Mer (Luanne Rice)
- Short Story:Beyond the Dragon's Gate (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Blood Is Another Word for Hunger (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Bloody Summer (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Boca Raton (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Can You Feel This? (Julie Orringer)
- Short Story:Catch Her in a Lie (Jess Lourey)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Chip Off the Old Block (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat (Malik Usman T.)
- Short Story:City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Controller (Jesse Kellerman)
- Short Story:Cowboy Tango (Maggie Shipstead)
- Short Story:Creature Features (John McNally)
- Short Story:Crewelwork (Justin Torres)
- Short Story:Dark Warm Heart (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Death Defier (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:Deluge (Charmaine Wilkerson)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Dog (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Edge of Doom (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Enlightenment (William Pei Shih)
- Short Story:Equoid (Charles Stross)
- Short Story:Eros, Philia, Agape (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Everything My Mother Taught Me (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:Extracurricular Activities (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:Falls the Shadow (Skip Horack)
- Short Story:Fifty Minutes (Joe Donnelly, Harry Shannon)
- Short Story:Fingers Crossed (Fiona Davis)
- Short Story:Finnegan's Field (Angela Slatter)
- Short Story:Footnote to American History (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:For He Can Creep (Siobhan Carroll)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Freedom is Space for the Spirit (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:Galicia (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Giraffe & Flamingo (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Go Fish (Ian Rogers)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Graceful Burdens (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Halfway to Free (Emma Donoghue)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hazel and Gray (Nic Stone)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light (Mimi Mondal)
- Short Story:His Happy Place (Zakiya Dalila Harris)
- Short Story:Hold-Time Violations (John Chu)
- Short Story:I Would be Doing This Anyway (Jia Tolentino)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If You Are Lonely And You Know It (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In the Cave of the Delicate Singers (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:Landing (Olivia Hawker)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Loam (Scott Heim)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Mary When You Follow Her (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Me and Carlos (Tom Perrotta)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Men, Women, and Chainsaws (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Model Home (J. Courtney Sullivan)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:Mother Country (Etaf Rum)
- Short Story:Mother Swamp, Mother Swamp (Jesmyn Ward)
- Short Story:Murder at the Royal Ruby (Nita Prose)
- Short Story:My Evil Mother (Margaret Atwood)
- Short Story:Naomi's Gift, Naomi's Gift (Martha Hall Kelly)
- Short Story:Nine Last Days on Planet Earth (Daryl Gregory)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Of Roses and Kings (Melissa Marr)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Overtime (Charles Stross)
- Short Story:Painless (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Persephone (Lev Grossman)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Poppy's Story (Kristina McMorris)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Questions Asked in the Belly of the World (A.T. Greenblatt)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Randomize (Andy Weir)
- Short Story:Red as Blood and White as Bone (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Rewards (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Shell Game (Rumaan Alam)
- Short Story:Shine, Pamela! Shine! (Kate Atkinson)
- Short Story:Signal Moon, Signal Moon (Kate Quinn)
- Short Story:Simplexity (Kiley Reid)
- Short Story:Six Months, Three Days (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Sleep Walking Now and Then (Richard Bowes)
- Short Story:Sleeper (Jo Walton)
- Short Story:Slow Burner (Laura Lippman)
- Short Story:Small Monsters (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- Short Story:Snowflakes (Ruth Ware)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:Some Gods of El Paso (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Stag (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:Stockholm (Catherine Steadman)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Summer Frost (Blake Crouch)
- Short Story:Sweet Virgina (Caroline Kepnes)
- Short Story:Sweetlings (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:Swift, Brutal Retaliation (Meghan McCarron)
- Short Story:Tamalpais (Steve Almond)
- Short Story:That Donnelly Crowd (Anne Therese Macdonald)
- Short Story:That Game We Played During the War (Carrie Vaughn)
- Short Story:The Art of Space Travel (Nina Allan)
- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Backbone of the World (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:The Bad Friend (Caroline Kepnes)
- Short Story:The Beckoning Fair One (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:The Best Girls (Min Jin Lee)
- Short Story:The Bookstore Sisters (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Caretakers (David Nickle)
- Short Story:The City Born Great (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Cleaners (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Contractors (Lisa Ko)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Days Before Us (Sejal Badani)
- Short Story:The Devil in America (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The End of the End of Everything (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Finite Canvas (Lee Mandelo)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Flaw in the Design (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Garden (Tomi Champion-Adeyemi)
- Short Story:The Gift (Alison Gaylin)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Heart of a Mother (Julie Clark)
- Short Story:The Hillside (Jane Smiley)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Kite Maker (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:The Lamentation of Their Women (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections (Tina Connolly)
- Short Story:The Last Conversation (Paul Tremblay)
- Short Story:The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard) (Matthew Kressel)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Anthony Marra)
- Short Story:The Litany of Earth (Ruthana Emrys)
- Short Story:The Little Witch (M. Rickert)
- Short Story:The Magician (Rebecca Serle)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Martian Obelisk (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:The Miracle Girl (Rita Chang-Eppig)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Mosquito (B.A. Paris)
- Short Story:The Night Cyclist (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Other Side of the Road (Andrea Bartz)
- Short Story:The Phantom in the Maze (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:The Poet (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prince and the Troll (Rainbow Rowell)
- Short Story:The Princess Game (Soman Chainani)
- Short Story:The Remedy (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:The Road Home (Kristin Harmel)
- Short Story:The Shortest Day (Colm Tóibín)
- Short Story:The Story of Kao Yu (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:The Summer House (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:The Tallest Doll in New York City (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Tangled Woods (Emily Raboteau)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Tiger Came to the Mountains (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Short Story:The Time Invariance of Snow (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Time Invariance of Snow (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Tomorrow Box (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:The Touches (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Twilight Pariah (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:The Vanishing American (Leslie Parry)
- Short Story:The Visit (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (John Chu)
- Short Story:The Way the World Ends (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:The Weddings (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:The Weight of the Dead (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:The Wickeds (Gayle Forman)
- Short Story:There's No Place Like Home (Edan Lepucki)
- Short Story:These Alien Skies (C. T. Rwizi)
- Short Story:These Cold Strangers (J. T. Ellison)
- Short Story:These Deathless Bones (Cassandra Khaw)
- Short Story:This Is Not a Love Song (Brendan Matthews)
- Short Story:This Telling (Cheryl Strayed)
- Short Story:Threnody for Stelios (Peter Gray)
- Short Story:To a Good Home (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Top Ten Vacation Selfies of YouTube Stars (Preston Lang)
- Short Story:Treasure (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
- Short Story:Triquetra (Kirstyn McDermott)
- Short Story:Trouble (Janelle Brown)
- Short Story:Two Truths and a Lie (Sarah Pinsker)
- Short Story:Uncharted Waters (Sally Hepworth)
- Short Story:Undercover (Tasmyn Muir)
- Short Story:Ungirls (Lauren Beukes)
- Short Story:Vilcabamba (Harry Turtledove)
- Short Story:Visiting the Point (Thomas W. Molyneux)
- Short Story:We Are Bone and Earth, We Are Bone and Earth (Esi Edugyan)
- Short Story:Where Would You Be Now? (Carrie Vaughn)
- Short Story:Wildlife (Jeff VanderMeer)
- Short Story:Will Williams (Namwali Serpell)
- Short Story:Yoon Ha Lee—Beyond the Dragon's Gate (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Amor Towles)
- Short Story:You Know How the Story Goes (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
- Short Story:Zenith Man (Jennifer Haigh)
- Short Story:Zikora (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)


