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- Short Story:1000-Year-Old Ghosts (Laura Chow Reeve)
- Short Story:2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut)
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- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Flawless Silence (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
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- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
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- Short Story:A Partial List of the Saved (Danielle McLaughlin)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- Short Story:A Saucer of Loneliness (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
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- 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 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:Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile (Somtow Sucharitkul)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
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- Short Story:All Will Be Well (Yiyun Li)
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- Short Story:America: The Ride (Charles Yu)
- Short Story:An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (Ken Liu)
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- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
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- Short Story:By Degrees and Dilatory Time (S.L. Huang)
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- Short Story:Can These Bones Live? (Ted Reynolds)
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- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
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- Short Story:Children of the Good Book (J. M. Holmes)
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- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:City Visit (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:Cocoon (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Cold Snap (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- 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:Comme (Paul Dalla Rosa)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Construction Shack (Clifford D. Simak)
- Short Story:Control Negro (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)
- Short Story:Cosmic Corkscrew (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Covenant (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Crossing the River No Name (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Crystal Vase: Snapshots (Jyotsna Sreenivasan)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
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- Short Story:Dark Warm Heart (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 1 (Usman T. Malik)
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- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
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- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desertion (Clifford D. Simak)
- Short Story:Desolation (Gail Jones)
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- 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:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Domain (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Dorcester (Steven Duong)
- Short Story:Dori Bangs (Bruce Sterling)
- 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:Eddy (Anne Carson)
- 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:Eisenheim the Illusionist (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:End as a World (F. L. Wallace)
- 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:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- 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:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in Cmin, Op. 66 (Carlos Hernandez)
- Short Story:Fat Girl (Brendan Gill)
- Short Story:Featherweight (Sterling HolyWhiteMountain)
- Short Story:Fifty Minutes (Joe Donnelly, Harry Shannon)
- Short Story:Filament (K. L. Cook)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Firelight (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:First Four Measures (Nathaniel Bellows)
- Short Story:First Marriage (Joan Silber)


