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- Short Story:1,111 Emblems (Hernan Diaz)
- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:22XX: One-Shot (Jelani Wilson)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:A Box of Hope (Brian Panowich)
- Short Story:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A Brief Moment of Rage (Bill Davidson)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Country Passion (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Curtain of Green (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:A Day in the Country (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:A Deed Without a Name (Jack Lothian)
- Short Story:A Distant Harbour (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Fine Specimen (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Life in the Day of a Writer (Tess Slesinger)
- Short Story:A Loaf of Bread (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:A Master Time (James Still)
- Short Story:A Night Among the Horses (Djuna Barnes)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Piece of Bread (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Postscript to Divorce (Gouverneur Morris)
- Short Story:A Pretty Cute Little Stunt (George Milburn)
- Short Story:A Quiet Place to Hide (William Jensen)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Shadow Table (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Song for Wounded Mouths (Kristi DeMeester)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Terminal Kind of Love (Veronica Henry)
- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Vacuum Is a Space Entirely Devoid of Matter (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Aftermath (LeVar Burton)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Ah Been Buked (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Aida (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
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- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
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- Short Story:All the Myriad Ways (Larry Niven)
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- Short Story:America: The Ride (Charles Yu)
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- Short Story:An Arrival at Carthage (Scammon Lockwood)
- Short Story:An Awakening (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:An Equal Share of the Bone (Karen Osborne)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
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- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Annunciation (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Another Wife (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:Anschluss (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Antaeus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Antarctica (Laura van den Berg)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- Short Story:Apports (Stephen Bacon)
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- Short Story:Asymmetry (Kendra Fortmeyer)
- Short Story:At Isham's (Edward C. Venable)
- Short Story:At Mrs. Farrelly's (Joseph Carroll)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:At The End of the Road (Walter J. Muilenburg)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Awaiting Orders (Tobias Wolff)
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- Short Story:Because I Was Flesh (Edward Dahlberg)
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- Short Story:Bless This Mess (Amy Reed)
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- Short Story:Body Language (Diane Schoemperlen)
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- Short Story:Bright Moon Temple (明月寺) (Mi Ye (叶弥))
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- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
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- Short Story:Bullet Number Two (Hannah Tinti)
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- Short Story:Bus to Biarritz (Madelene Cole)
- Short Story:But Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
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- Short Story:Caddies' Day (Jeanne Schinto)
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- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Chanson Du Konallis (Lorraine Hansberry)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato)
- Short Story:Christmas (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Chrysalis (Aimee Campbell)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Come on, Silver (Ann Glaviano)
- Short Story:Coming to Terms (Eileen Gunn)
- Short Story:Cora Unashamed (Langston Hughes)
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- Short Story:Cosmic Corkscrew (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Covered (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Crave (Lilliam Rivera)
- Short Story:Crawfather (Mel Kassel)
- Short Story:Crime Passionnel (Louis Bromfield)
- Short Story:Crime Scene (Joseph S. Walker)
- Short Story:Crispin's Way (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:Crossing the River No Name (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Crossroads Woman (Howard McKinley Corning)
- Short Story:Crystal Vase: Snapshots (Jyotsna Sreenivasan)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion) (N. Romaine White)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Dangerous (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Dear Mr. Flessheimer (Whitfield Cook)
- Short Story:Death and My Uncle Felix (Alison Stuart)
- Short Story:Death Under Hawthornes (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Déjà Vu (Miriam McKenzie)
- Short Story:Delete Your First Memory for Free (Kel Coleman)
- Short Story:Demon Slayer (Terna Abu)
- Short Story:Descent (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Destroy the City with Me Tonight (Kate Marshall)
- Short Story:Diary of an Interesting Year (Helen Simpson)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Dishes (Agnes Mary Brownell)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Docent (R. T. Smith)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dominion (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:Don't Go Into the Woods Alone (Gabino Iglesias)
- Short Story:Don't Scrub Off These Names (John McNulty)
- Short Story:Dress Circle (Miranda Siemienowicz)
- Short Story:Dressing-Up (W.R. Burnett)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- 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:Eight Episodes (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Eight Minutes (Tanuja Desai Hidier)
- Short Story:Eight Pieces for the Left Hand (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:Elmer (Albert Truman Boyd)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emotional Technologies (Chris Kraus)
- Short Story:Episode in a Machine Age (Cambray Brown)
- Short Story:Episode of a House Remembered (John Rogers)
- Short Story:Eskimo Pies (Robert Somerlott)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Evening and Morning Prayer (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Excavate (Melody Gordon)
- Short Story:Exchange Value (Charles Johnson)
- Short Story:Exiles From the Creuse (Mary Mian)
- Short Story:Eyewall (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fade to Red: Three Interviews About Sebold's Mars Trilogy (Stephen S. Power)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Father and Son (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:Festered Wounds (Nancy Pauline Simpson)
- Short Story:Fifteen From Company K (William March)
- Short Story:Final Exam (Megan Arkenberg)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Firelight (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:First Day Finish (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Flight (Thaai Walker)
- Short Story:Flight Through the Dark (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fly, Fly, Little Dove (Philip Garrigan)
- Short Story:Footnote to a Life (Lloyd Morris)
- Short Story:For Something to Do (Elmore Leonard)
- Short Story:Forest Cover (Edna Bryner)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Foreword (Jacqueline Freimor)
- Short Story:Four Generations (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Tom Crosshill)
- Short Story:Freeway to Wherever (Maurice Ogden)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Galveston Bay, 1826 (Eddie Chuculate)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
