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- Short Story:1,111 Emblems (Hernan Diaz)
- Short Story:1000-Year-Old Ghosts (Laura Chow Reeve)
- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:24, Alhaji Williams Street (Pemi Aguda)
- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:610 North, 610 West (Bryan Washington)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:A Beneficiary (Nadine Gordimer)
- Short Story:A Better Mousehole (Edgar Pangborn)
- Short Story:A Bird, a Song, a Revolution (Brooke Bolander)
- Short Story:A Birth in the Woods (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:A Boy and His Dog (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:A Boy's Duty (Sharon G. Flake)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Challenge You Have Overcome (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Clearing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Cruelty (Kevin Barry)
- Short Story:A Dark Night (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Flawless Silence (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Friend of Napoleon (Richard Connell)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Home (Karin Lowachee)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:A Kiss with Teeth (Max Gladstone)
- Short Story:A Leo, Like Jackie O (Jillian Jackson)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
- Short Story:A Love Story (Samantha Hunt)
- Short Story:A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:A Man Like Him (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Partial List of the Saved (Danielle McLaughlin)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- Short Story:A Saucer of Loneliness (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:A Sheltered Woman (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Shinagawa Monkey (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Jai Chakrabarti)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stranger at the Bochinche (Daniel José Older)
- Short Story:A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:A Subway Named Mobius (A. J. Deutsch)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Thing of Beauty (Norman Spinrad)
- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Vacuum Is a Space Entirely Devoid of Matter (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A Visit to Frederik Ruysch's Cabinets (Diane Ackerman)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A Way with Bea (Shanteka Sigers)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasties (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:A.T. Greenblatt—One Time, a Reluctant Traveler (A.T. Greenblatt)
- Short Story:Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile (Somtow Sucharitkul)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:After a Life (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:After King Kong Fell (Philip José Farmer)
- Short Story:After the Birds (Ope Adedeji)
- Short Story:Afterlife (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Afternoon Tea (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Aguacero (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Aguanile (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Ah Been Buked (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Al Roosten (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Alan at the Kirschbergs' (Anna Solomon)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alien Jane (Kelley Eskridge)
- Short Story:Alive (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All Ahead Of Them (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:All Boy (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:All Her Names (Kali Fajardo-Anstine)
- Short Story:All the Colors You Thought Were Kings (Arkady Martine)
- Short Story:All the Last Wars at Once (George Alec Effinger)
- Short Story:All the Myriad Ways (Larry Niven)
- Short Story:All the Time We've Left to Spend (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:All Together Now (Ramez Naam & Jason M. Hough)
- Short Story:All Will Be Well (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Allegiance (Aryn Kyle)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Alone (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Along the Frontage Road (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:America: The Ride (Charles Yu)
- 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 East Egg Update (George Bradley)
- Short Story:An Equal Share of the Bone (Karen Osborne)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:An Inch and a Half of Glory (Dashiell Hammett)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:An Unfaded Black (Caleb Michael Sarvis)
- Short Story:Ancient Engines (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:And Now His Lordship Is Laughing (Shiv Ramdas)
- Short Story:And the Gods Laughed (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:And the Winners Will Be Swept Out To Sea (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:And This is How to Stay Alive (Shingai Njeri Kagunda)
- Short Story:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Angel (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Anwar Gets Everything (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Aphrodisiac (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Arcadia (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Are We Not Men? (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:Article of Faith (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:Arvies (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:As Good as New (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:As the Last I May Know (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Asymmetry (Kendra Fortmeyer)
- Short Story:Audition (Saïd Sayrafiezadeh)
- Short Story:Aunt Telephone (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
- Short Story:Axis (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Aye, and Gomorrah... (Samuel R. Delany)
- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Balloon (Doug Ramspeck)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Baroness (E. Catherine Tobler)
- Short Story:Base Life (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Basket Carry (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Bears Discover Fire (Terry Bisson)
- Short Story:Before I Wake (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Before the Valley (Rachel Heng)
- Short Story:Beluthahatchie (Andy Duncan)
- Short Story:Better (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Beyond the Dragon's Gate (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Beyond the Glass Mountain (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Bible (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Big Boss Bitch (Adrienne Celt)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Billy Goats (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Birthday Girl (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Black Betty (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Black Like Them (Troy L. Wiggins)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Bless This Mess (Amy Reed)
- Short Story:Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Blood Is Another Word for Hunger (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Blueprints for St. Louis (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Blur (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Bodega (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Bohemians (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Bonus Baby (Joe Donnelly)
- Short Story:Boogieman (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Born Again (K. D. Wentworth)
- Short Story:Bounty (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Bow Down (Murad Kalam)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Boys Go to Jupiter (Danielle Evans)
- Short Story:Boys Town (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Brad carrigan, american (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Breaker (Randy F. Nelson)
- Short Story:Breatharians (Callan Wink)
- Short Story:Bride (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Bride Before You (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Bridesicle (Will McIntosh)
- Short Story:Bright Moon Temple (明月寺) (Mi Ye (叶弥))
- Short Story:Brightened Star Ascending Dawn (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Brother's Keeper (Dave Zelsterman)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Brownstone (Renata Adler)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Burn Your Maps (Robyn Joy Leff)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Butterflies (Rose Sidney)
- Short Story:Buttony (Fiona McFarlane)
- Short Story:By Boat, Drawn by Swans (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:By Degrees and Dilatory Time (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Call a Solemn Assembly (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Calved (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Can These Bones Live? (Ted Reynolds)
- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Carbon Tet (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (Nick Wolven)
- Short Story:Cat in a Box (Kevin Prufer)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Celeste Rita Baker—Glass Bottle Dancer (Celeste Rita Baker)
- Short Story:Chains (Elma Godchaux)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Chance Traveller (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)


