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- 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)
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- 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 City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
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- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- 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)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stranger at the Bochinche (Daniel José Older)
- Short Story:A Subtle Web: A Tale from the Somadeva Chronicles (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
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- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
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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 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)
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- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
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- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
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- Short Story:All Will Be Well (Yiyun Li)
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- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
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- Short Story:An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (Ken Liu)
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- 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)
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- 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:Another Word for Map is Faith (Christopher Rowe)
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- Short Story:Break It Down (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:Bridge (Daniel J. O'Malley)
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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)
- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
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- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Chivalry (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Christmas (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Christmas Gift (Robert Penn Warren)
- Short Story:Chronopolis (J. G. Ballard)
- Short Story:Cinderella School (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cocoon (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- 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:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Crave (Lilliam Rivera)
- Short Story:Crossing the River No Name (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Crystal Vase: Snapshots (Jyotsna Sreenivasan)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Dance of Bones (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Dangerous (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Dangling Modifiers (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Defeat (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Defying Definition (Shaun David Hutchinson)
- Short Story:Department Store (Ann Bayer)
- Short Story:Desertion (Clifford D. Simak)
- Short Story:Desolation (Gail Jones)
- 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:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dog (Charles Mcleod)
- 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: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:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Encounters with Unexpected Animals (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- 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:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- 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:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- 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:For Now, Sideways (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Four Short Novels (Joe Haldeman)
- Short Story:Foxes (Kimberly King Parsons)
- Short Story:Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Tom Crosshill)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Fyrewall (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Girl of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)


