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- Short Story:A Beneficiary (Nadine Gordimer)
- Short Story:A Birth in the Woods (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:A Birthday (Esther Friesner)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
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- Short Story:A Brief and Hideous Scrawl (Erin Brown)
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- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
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- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
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- Short Story:A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (Jason Brown)
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- Short Story:Bloodchild (Octavia E. Butler)
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- Short Story:Boys Town (Jim Shepard)
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- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
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- Short Story:Burning Down the House (Ted White)
- Short Story:Bury Your Own Dead (Bessie Breuer)
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- Short Story:Butterflies (Rose Sidney)
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- Short Story:Captive Girl (Jennifer Pelland)
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- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
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- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Compromisos (Manuel Munoz)
- Short Story:Contact! (Frances Noyes Hart)
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- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew D. Bourelle)
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- Short Story:Creature (Carol Emshwiller)
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- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
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- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 2 (Usman T. Malik)


