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- Short Story:A Brief and Hideous Scrawl (Erin Brown)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Small Bloody Gift (Naomi Day)
- Short Story:A Terminal Kind of Love (Veronica Henry)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Akabore Be Quiet (Bryan Adaare)
- Short Story:All in a Day’s Work (Jade Stewart)
- Short Story:All Saints Day (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:All That the Storm Took (Yah Yah Scholfield)
- Short Story:Ambrosia (Margaret Saunders)
- Short Story:An Irrational Love (Marika Bailey)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:And Songs Don’t End (Osahon Ize-Iyamu)
- Short Story:Arboreteum (Habiba Dokubo-Asari)
- Short Story:Artie Gottlieb, Consulting Philosopher (Stephen Schottenfeld)
- Short Story:Baby Brother (Kalynn Bayron)
- Short Story:Barbara in the Frame (Emmalia Harrington)
- Short Story:Berceuse (Alfred Chester)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Black Tobias and the Empire (Heinz Werner)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Blood Ties (Jade Wilburn)
- Short Story:Blooms of Sorrow (Amanda Helms)
- Short Story:Bondye Bon (Monique L. Desir)
- Short Story:Bullet (Stephen Kearse)
- Short Story:Capsule of Souls (Dexter F. I. Joseph)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Chesirah (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Chip Off the Old Block (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Chrysalis (Aimee Campbell)
- Short Story:Corialis (T. L. Huchu)
- Short Story:Cowboy Tango (Maggie Shipstead)
- Short Story:Cracks (Xen)
- Short Story:Creature Features (John McNally)
- Short Story:D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion) (N. Romaine White)
- Short Story:Death Defier (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:Death of an Outcast (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Decades (Gilbert Sorrentino)
- Short Story:Delete Your First Memory for Free (Kel Coleman)
- Short Story:Demon Slayer (Terna Abu)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Doll Seed (Michele Tracy Berger)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Edge of Doom (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Encounters with Unexpected Animals (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Enlightenment (William Pei Shih)
- Short Story:Epic of Sakina (Shari Paul)
- Short Story:Excavate (Melody Gordon)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Food for the Soul (Elnora Gunter)
- Short Story:Footnote to American History (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Forty Acres and a Mule (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:From Earth to Io, With Love (Adelehin Ijasan)
- Short Story:Furious Girls (Juliana Goodman)
- Short Story:Further Emergencies (Nicole Krauss)
- Short Story:Galicia (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Girl Eats Girl (Gnesis Villar)
- Short Story:Gloss (Kola Heyward-Rotimi)
- Short Story:Goose Pond (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:Gossip (Frank Conroy)
- Short Story:Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment (Eden Royce)
- Short Story:Guardian of the Gods (Tobi Ogundiran)
- Short Story:Happy August the 10th (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:Have You Seen Sukie? (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Hero (Phyllis Roberts)
- Short Story:Hers Too (Wolf Weston)
- Short Story:Home Is Where My Mother’s Heart Is Buried (Wole Talab)
- Short Story:Homo Minimalensis (Tasha Schumann)
- Short Story:Huey, The Engineer (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:Ibrahima and the Green Fishing Net (Omar William Sow)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:In Black and White (Ann Jones)
- Short Story:In Case of Survival (T. Gertler)
- Short Story:In Miami, Last Winter (James Kaplan)
- Short Story:In That Place She Grows a Garden (Del Sandeen)
- Short Story:In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu (Jules Siegel)
- Short Story:In the Smile Place (Tobi Ogundiran)
- Short Story:Interstate Africana (WC Dunlap)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Johnny Hamburger (Rand Richards Cooper)
- Short Story:Just Desserts (A.M. Barrie)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Kingston Gourmet (Ashaye Brown)
- Short Story:Kiss of Life (P.C. Verrone)
- Short Story:Knoxmarion Burning (Erin Brown)
- Short Story:Kudzu Boy Dreaming (SJ Powell)
- Short Story:Liquor of Memory (Samantha Frye)
- Short Story:Little Brother Nun (David Stacton)
- Short Story:Lobster Night (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Long Time Lurker, First Time Bomber (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lungs (Lily Watson)
- Short Story:Lusca (Soleil Knowles)
- Short Story:Magician’s Trial (Sarah A. Macklin)
- Short Story:Marry the One Who Gets There First (Heidi Julavits)
- Short Story:Mars Revisited (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:Mary When You Follow Her (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Me and My Enemy (Karen Heuler)
- Short Story:Meditations on Sun-Ra’s Bassism (Yah Yah Scholfield)
- Short Story:Memento Mori (Jonathan Nolan)
- Short Story:Mexican Hayride (Willard Marsh)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Morning (Diane Russell)
- Short Story:Morning Sun (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:Morphine (Doran Larson)
- Short Story:My Snakes (Frieda Vaughn)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Needs, Wants, and Dead Things (Kirk A. Johnson)
- Short Story:Night of the Living Spa Weekend (M H Ayinde)
- Short Story:No Late-for-school (Shari Paul)
- Short Story:Not the Phil Donahue Show (Kelly Cherry)
- Short Story:Notes on the Plague (Shamar Harriott)
- Short Story:Off the Highway (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:Old Solomon's Eyes (Cheryl S. Ntumy)
- Short Story:On the Shore of Chad Creek (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Paid in Full (Sarah A. Macklin)
- Short Story:Parker's Back (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Pedaling (Tuere T. S. Ganges)
- Short Story:Petunia (Lerato Mahlangu)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Police Magic (Brent Lambert)
- Short Story:Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream (Matthew W. McGreggor)
- Short Story:Raisin Faces (Helen Norris)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Reclaiming Tess (Brittany Smith)
- Short Story:Red Cloth, White Giraffe (Yvette Lisa Ndlovu)
- Short Story:Rememory (Kristen Reynolds)
- Short Story:Revival (Wendi Dunlap)
- Short Story:Riley and Robot (Arnica Ross)
- Short Story:Roots on Ya (LH Moore)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Roses (Margaret Edwards)
- Short Story:Saudade (Nelson Rolon)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Sentience (Nkone Chaka)
- Short Story:Shadrach (William Styron)
- Short Story:Silver Door Diner (Bishop Garrison)
- Short Story:Sisi Je Kuisha (We Have Ended) (V. H. Galloway)
- Short Story:Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good (LaShawn M. Wanak)
- Short Story:Sisyphus (C. L. Clark)
- Short Story:Skaters on Wood (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:Smiley Faces With Blackberry Jam on Toast (Cynthia C. Scott)
- Short Story:Smorgasbord (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- Short Story:So Large a Thing as Seven (James Still)
- Short Story:Spell for Grief and Longing (Eboni J. Dunbar)
- Short Story:Story Without End (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Sugar Honey Iced Tea (Eden Royce)
- Short Story:Survival Lies (Irette Y. Patterson)
- Short Story:Talking to Cancer (Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali)
- Short Story:Tamalpais (Steve Almond)
- Short Story:Teddy Bump (Sheree Renée Thomas)
- Short Story:Tet Fe Mal (Zin E. Rocklyn)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:That Which Smells Bad (Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga)
- Short Story:The Angel Esmeralda (Don DeLillo)
- Short Story:The Author (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Beekeeper’s Garden (Christopher Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Black Menagerie (Endria Isa Richardson)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Body of Theseus (Emir G. Park)
- Short Story:The Breadman (Mary Heath)
- Short Story:The Breeze in the Boughs (Jennifer Marie Brissett)
- Short Story:The Brief Life Story of Lila (Danny Cherry, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Costa Brava, 1959 (Ward Just)
- Short Story:The Crazy Guy (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:The Daemon King of Engim (Rafeeat Aliyu)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The Dragon (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The First of Us: The Geordonn Story (K.S. Walker)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Flaw in the Design (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Girl from the River Barge (Walter Schoenstedt)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Hard Shell (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Ishologu (Jonathan Kincade)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Last Exorcist (Danny Lore)
- Short Story:The Last Testament (Aurelius Raines II)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Midnight Host (Gregory Neil Harris)
- Short Story:The Miracle Girl (Rita Chang-Eppig)
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Other Side of Otto Mountain (Ivy Spadille)
- Short Story:The Owl That Kept Winking (Theodore Pratt)
- Short Story:The Pastry Shop Round the Bend (Makeda K. Braithwaite)
- Short Story:The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The People vs. Abe Lathan, Colored (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Percivals: the Bennett Benefit (Eboni J. Dunbar)
- Short Story:The Plaster (Laura Barker)
- Short Story:The Poet (Albert Halper)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prince (Craig Nova)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Nicky Drayden)
- Short Story:The Real Viennese Schmalz (Budd Wilson Schulberg)
- Short Story:The Red Summer (Wendy Shaia)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Seven Men of Rouen (George Slocombe)
- Short Story:The Shade Caller (DaVaun Sanders)
- Short Story:The Skater (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:The Sower (Takim Williams)
- Short Story:The Spirit of Bois (Karyn Diaz)
- Short Story:The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Techwork Horse (M. H. Ayinde)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:The Tomb of the Forgotten Soldier (Mwanabibi Sikamo)
- Short Story:The Transition of Osoosi (Ozzie M. Gartrell)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Trumpet Player (Nicole Givens Kurtz)
- Short Story:The Usual Way (Lina Munroe)
- Short Story:The Valley of the Shadow (T. K. Brown III)
- Short Story:The Vanishing American (Leslie Parry)
- Short Story:The Warrior Princess Ozimba (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Way Things Are (Jendayi Brooks-Flemister)
- Short Story:The White Road; Or How a Crow Carried Death Over a River (Marika Bailey)
- Short Story:The Whole World is Outside (Manuel Komroff)


