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- Short Story:A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (Jason Brown)
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- Short Story:A Flawless Silence (Yiyun Li)
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- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
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- 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)
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- Short Story:A Partial List of the Saved (Danielle McLaughlin)
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- 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 Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
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- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Jai Chakrabarti)
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- Short Story:A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman)
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- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
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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)
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- Short Story:Birthday Girl (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Blood Is Another Word for Hunger (Rivers Solomon)
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- Short Story:Bloodchild (Octavia E. Butler)
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- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
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- Short Story:Contact! (Frances Noyes Hart)
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