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- Short Story:5135 Kensington: August, 1903 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Clearing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:A Danger to Ourselves (Molly Quinn)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Good Marriage (Ed Kurtz)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Partnership With Death (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Sick Call (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stranger at the Bochinche (Daniel José Older)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Thing of Beauty (Elias Lieberman)
- Short Story:A Tiny Mirror (Eloise C. C. Shepherd)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Air to Shape Lungs (Shingai Njeri Kagunda)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Almost Like Christmas (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:An Unknown Warrior (Susan M. Boogher)
- Short Story:Answer (Ruth Pine Furniss)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:Arrival on a Holiday (Wilson Wright)
- Short Story:Athens, Greece, 1942 (Vahan Krikorian Gregory)
- Short Story:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Kristina Ten)
- Short Story:Best Friendster Date Ever (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:Big Jules (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Elvis, Black Elvis (Geoffrey Becker)
- Short Story:Black Troubadour (David L. Cohn)
- Short Story:Black Wind and Lightning (Michael Fessier)
- Short Story:Blind Man's Buff (Libby Benedict)
- Short Story:Blind Vision (Mary Mitchell Freedley)
- Short Story:Bloody Rhapsody (Alessandro Manzetti)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Buddy Bolden (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Bush-Hammer Finish (Michelle Butler Hallett)
- Short Story:Buttony (Fiona McFarlane)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Children Who Fly (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Crabs (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Dance of Bones (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Dawn of Remembered Spring (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Day of Gold and Darkness (Robert Fontaine)
- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Defying Definition (Shaun David Hutchinson)
- Short Story:Departure of Hubbard (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:End as a World (F. L. Wallace)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Escape from the Dysphesiac People (Brandon Hobson)
- Short Story:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Exhortation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Extra! Extra! (Robert E. Sherwood)
- Short Story:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fever Flower (Josephine Johnson)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:First Oboe (James Webber Glover)
- Short Story:Five Times Shiva Met Harry (Sangu Mandanna)
- Short Story:For Now, Sideways (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Former Marine (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Frère Jacques (John Cheever)
- Short Story:From Earth to Io, With Love (Adelehin Ijasan)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Girl of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Gravity (Tracey Baptiste)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Headshot (Julian Mortimer Smith)
- Short Story:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Hello Again (Seth Fried)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All (Naomi (Rahul) Kanakia)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:How to Talk to a Hunter (Pam Houston)
- Short Story:I CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I Got a Friend (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:I'm Really Fine (Stuart Schulberg)
- Short Story:Ibrahima and the Green Fishing Net (Omar William Sow)
- Short Story:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In the Museum of Tense Moments (Becky Hagenston)
- Short Story:In The Open Code (Burton Kline)
- Short Story:Interstate Africana (WC Dunlap)
- Short Story:Into the Penny Arcade (Claire Massey)
- Short Story:It's Carnival! (Tiffany D. Jackson)
- Short Story:Janus (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Li Chang's Million (Henry Gregor Felsen)
- Short Story:Like a Sea Cucumber (Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Loneliness is in Your Blood (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Long, Long Ago (Frederick Orin Bartlett)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Lungs (Lily Watson)
- Short Story:Ma laja (Tracey Baptiste)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Manikin (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Masks (Peter Sutton)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mrs. Razor (James Still)
- Short Story:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:My amendment (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Brother Osong's Career in Politics (Carlos Bulosan)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:My flamboyant grandson (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Son the Murderer (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:Nairobi (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Nayla (Youmna Chlala)
- Short Story:Night Garden (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:O (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:One Perfect Morning, With Jackals (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Opening Day (Jack Gilchrist)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Origin Story (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Our Neural Chernobyl (Bruce Sterling)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Paddle to Canada (Heather Monley)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Princess Anne (Jim Allyn)
- Short Story:Push (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Requiem Without Sound (Izzy Wasserstein)
- Short Story:Reunion (Julie Schumacher)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Robot (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Robot Dreams (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Room in the World (Leane Zugsmith)
- Short Story:Roots on Ya (LH Moore)
- Short Story:Runway (Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark)
- Short Story:Safeword (R.O. Kwon)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Scales (Alastair Reynolds)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
- Short Story:Self-Reliance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut (Dominica Phetteplace)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:She Walks in Beauty (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Sherrel (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Signal (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Signal (LD Lewis)
- Short Story:Sister Lilith (Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Smear (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Solstice (Anne Enright)
- Short Story:Some Agonies Over and Over (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Sparrows (Susan Palwick)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:STET (Sarah Gailey)
- Short Story:Still Life of a Death Broker (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Supers (Frederick Booth)
- Short Story:Tags (Walter Dean Myers)
- Short Story:Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast (Gwendolyn Clare)
- Short Story:That Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel) (Anthony Joseph)
- Short Story:The Answer That You Are Seeking (Jenny Rae Rappaport)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Astral Visitor Delta Blues (Robert Fleming)
- Short Story:The Becoming (Akua Lezli Hope)
- Short Story:The Black Laugh (A.B. Shiffrin)
- Short Story:The Black Waters of Lethe (Oliver Buckram)
- Short Story:The Blue Kimono (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Covering Storm (David H. Ingram)
- Short Story:The Cry Of The Butterfly (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Czech Dog (W. G. Hardy)
- Short Story:The Daydreamer by Proxy (Dexter Palmer)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Double House (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The End of FIRPO in the World (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Eye (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Farmer's Children (Elizabeth Bishop)
- Short Story:The Father's Hand (G. Humphrey)
