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- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
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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)
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- 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)
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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:Crystal Vase: Snapshots (Jyotsna Sreenivasan)
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- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:Displaced (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- 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:End as a World (F. L. Wallace)
- Short Story:End Game (Nancy Kress)
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- Short Story:Eurema's Dam (R. A. Lafferty)
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- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
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- Short Story:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
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- Short Story:Fade to Red: Three Interviews About Sebold's Mars Trilogy (Stephen S. Power)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
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- Short Story:Firelight (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
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- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
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- 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:Four Short Novels (Joe Haldeman)
- 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:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- 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:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Girl of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
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- Short Story:God Mode (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:God's Work (Kevin Canty)
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- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
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- 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)
