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- Short Story:1,111 Emblems (Hernan Diaz)
- Short Story:24, Alhaji Williams Street (Pemi Aguda)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:610 North, 610 West (Bryan Washington)
- Short Story:A Better Mousehole (Edgar Pangborn)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Challenge You Have Overcome (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:A Dark Night (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Leo, Like Jackie O (Jillian Jackson)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
- 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 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 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 Fantasties (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:After the Birds (Ope Adedeji)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Ah Been Buked (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Al Roosten (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alien Jane (Kelley Eskridge)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All Ahead Of Them (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:All Her Names (Kali Fajardo-Anstine)
- Short Story:All the Myriad Ways (Larry Niven)
- Short Story:All Will Be Well (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Along the Frontage Road (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:America: The Ride (Charles Yu)
- 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 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: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:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Anwar Gets Everything (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Around the Dear Ruin (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:Asymmetry (Kendra Fortmeyer)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Balloon (Doug Ramspeck)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Bears Discover Fire (Terry Bisson)
- Short Story:Before I Wake (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:Before the Valley (Rachel Heng)
- 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:Billy Goats (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Black Like Them (Troy L. Wiggins)
- Short Story:Black Secret (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:Bless This Mess (Amy Reed)
- Short Story:Blur (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Bohemians (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Born Again (K. D. Wentworth)
- Short Story:Bow Down (Murad Kalam)
- Short Story:Boys Go to Jupiter (Danielle Evans)
- Short Story:Brad carrigan, american (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Bride Before You (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- 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:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
- 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:Can These Bones Live? (Ted Reynolds)
- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
- Short Story:Carbon Tet (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Children of the Light Fellowship (Francesca Ekwuyasi)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Chivalry (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Christmas (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:Cocoon (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Come Lady Death (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Coming to Terms (Eileen Gunn)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Control Negro (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)
- Short Story:Cosmic Corkscrew (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Crave (Lilliam Rivera)
- Short Story:Crossing the River No Name (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Crystal Vase: Snapshots (Jyotsna Sreenivasan)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Dangerous (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Desertion (Clifford D. Simak)
- Short Story:Diary of an Interesting Year (Helen Simpson)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Dinner in Audoghast (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Dispatches from a Hole in the World (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Displaced (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Do Something (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Docent (R. T. Smith)
- Short Story:Dorcester (Steven Duong)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Dues (Dale Peck)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:East of the Sun, West of the Stars (Brit E. B. Hvide)
- Short Story:Echo (Elizabeth Hand)
- Short Story:Eight Episodes (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Eight Minutes (Tanuja Desai Hidier)
- Short Story:Eight Pieces for the Left Hand (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:End Game (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Episode in a Machine Age (Cambray Brown)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Eurema's Dam (R. A. Lafferty)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Eyewall (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:F.A.Q.s (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Face Value (Sean Williams)
- Short Story:Fade to Red: Three Interviews About Sebold's Mars Trilogy (Stephen S. Power)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in Cmin, Op. 66 (Carlos Hernandez)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Firelight (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Flower Kiss (Constance Ash)
- Short Story:Fook (Emily Hunt Kivel)
- Short Story:Foster (Claire Keegan)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Fox Foot (Joanna Pearson)
- Short Story:Foxes (Kimberly King Parsons)
- Short Story:Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Tom Crosshill)
- Short Story:Free Fruit for Young Widows (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Further Emergencies (Nicole Krauss)
- Short Story:Fyrewall (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Gallatin Canyon (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Galveston Bay, 1826 (Eddie Chuculate)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:God Mode (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:God's Work (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Good Hope (Enyeribe Ibegwam)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Grandmother's Nose (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Harvest (Rebecca Roanhorse)
- Short Story:Hehua (Millie Ho)
- Short Story:Helen O'Loy (Lester del Rey)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Hold-Time Violations (John Chu)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Hostage (Mark Wisniewski)
- Short Story:House on the Moon (William Alexander)
- Short Story:How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:How to Make Flan (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:How We Eat (Mark Jude Poirier)
- Short Story:Hungry (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Hyperpilosity (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:Immortality (Robert Henderson)
- Short Story:In persuasion nation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:In the City of Martyrs (Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam)
- Short Story:In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:In the Queue (Keith Laumer)
- Short Story:In the Shade of the Pixie Tree (Rodello Santos)
- Short Story:Infinity Sky (Kristen Lepionka)
- Short Story:Inheritance (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:Innocence (Rose Wilder Lane)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Interpreting American Gothic (Rebecca McKanna)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Not You (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Itsy Bitsy Spider (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:Itsy Bitsy Spider (Michael Bracken)
- Short Story:Jackalope Wives (Ursula Vernon)
- Short Story:Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Job's Tears (James Still)
- Short Story:Jollof Rice and Revolutions (Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi)
- Short Story:Just Before the War with the Eskimos (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:Kattekoppen (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:Kin (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:KT Bryski—Tiger's Feast (KT Bryski)
- Short Story:L'Aquilone du Estrellas or The Kite of Stars (Dean Francis Alfar)
