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- Short Story:An Amount of Discretion (Lauren Alwan)
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- Short Story:Bronze (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Short Story:Brother Rifle (Daryl Gregory)
- Short Story:Bullet (Stephen Kearse)
- Short Story:Bullet Point (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Burn the Ships (Alberto Yáñez)
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- Short Story:Byzantine Empathy (Ken Liu)
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- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat (Malik Usman T.)
- Short Story:City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat (Usman T. Malik)
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- Short Story:Cleaver, Meat, and Block (Maria Haskins)
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- Short Story:Cocoon (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Colonial Conditions (Brandon Taylor)
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- Short Story:Compromisos (Manuel Munoz)
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- Short Story:Crawfather (Mel Kassel)
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- Short Story:Daddy's Girl (T.N. Eyer)
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- Short Story:Daryl Gregory—Brother Rifle (Daryl Gregory)
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- Short Story:Dead Air (Nino Cipri)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 1 (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 2 (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Dead Man Stalking (Rachel Caine)
- Short Story:Deaf and Blind (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Death and the Maiden (Tara Sim)
- Short Story:Death in the Serengeti (David H. Hendrickson)
- Short Story:Defying Definition (Shaun David Hutchinson)
- Short Story:Delete Your First Memory for Free (Kel Coleman)
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- Short Story:Demon Slayer (Terna Abu)
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- Short Story:Displaced (Richard Ford)
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- Short Story:Do You Remember Candy (Kim Fu)
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- Short Story:Doll Seed (Michele Tracy Berger)
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- Short Story:Doomed? (K.M. Walton)
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- Short Story:Fable (Ethan Rutherford)
- Short Story:Fail-Safe (Philip Fracassi)


