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- Short Story:24, Alhaji Williams Street (Pemi Aguda)
- Short Story:A Challenge You Have Overcome (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:A Distant Episode (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:A Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Red Coat For Night (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Jai Chakrabarti)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Visit to Frederik Ruysch's Cabinets (Diane Ackerman)
- Short Story:A Will of Iron (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:Adrenaline Junkies (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Akabore Be Quiet (Bryan Adaare)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
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- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Ambrosia (Margaret Saunders)
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- Short Story:An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:An Inch and a Half of Glory (Dashiell Hammett)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Anwar Gets Everything (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Aunt Mary (John Hermann)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bears Discover Fire (Terry Bisson)
- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Bedrock (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Before the Valley (Rachel Heng)
- Short Story:Belle Mer (Luanne Rice)
- Short Story:Bible (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Black Enough (Varian Johnson)
- Short Story:Bound For Rio Grande (A.E. Dingle)
- Short Story:Bow Down (Murad Kalam)
- Short Story:Bread and Games (John D. Weaver)
- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
- Short Story:Brother's Keeper (Dave Zelsterman)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bullet Point (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:By the Yellow Lake (Peter Marsh)
- Short Story:Can These Bones Live? (Ted Reynolds)
- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
- Short Story:Catch Her in a Lie (Jess Lourey)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Char On Raven's Bench (Frank Holwerda)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Children of the Light Fellowship (Francesca Ekwuyasi)
- Short Story:Come Closer (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Control Negro (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)
- Short Story:Corporal Hardy (Richard Ely Danielson)
- Short Story:Dead Song (Jay Wilburn)
- Short Story:Desertion (Clifford D. Simak)
- Short Story:Diem Perdidi (Julie Otsuka)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Dispatches from a Hole in the World (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Displaced (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Do Something (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Dorcester (Steven Duong)
- Short Story:Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl (Janet Bruce Winn)
- Short Story:Driving the Heart (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:Dues (Dale Peck)
- Short Story:El Al 328 (Dana Schwartz)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:End Game (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Enter Daisy; To Her, Alexandra (Charles Cooke)
- Short Story:Evenings at Home (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Exodus (Borden Deal)
- Short Story:Face Value (Sean Williams)
- Short Story:Father Delacroix (May Davies Martenet)
- Short Story:Fences (L. Paul)
- Short Story:Fisherman's Luck (Emmett Gowen)
- Short Story:Flesh and Blood (Laurence Critchell)
- Short Story:Flight of the Circle Heart (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:Flower Kiss (Constance Ash)
- Short Story:Foreign Shores (James Salter)
- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:Frederick Douglass Elementary (Aya De Leon)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Fyrewall (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Gentleman in Blue (Laurence Stallings)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Girl in Pieces (Graham Edwards)
- Short Story:Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Hair (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heath Crawler (Sam Hicks)
- Short Story:Heel, Toe, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (George Milburn)
- Short Story:Helen O'Loy (Lester del Rey)
- Short Story:Hers Too (Wolf Weston)
- Short Story:Herself (James Pooler)
- Short Story:Hollow (Mia Mingus)
- Short Story:Home Is Where My Mother’s Heart Is Buried (Wole Talab)
- Short Story:Home-Coming (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
- Short Story:Hyperpilosity (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:I Say (I Say, I Say) (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If You Say So (Suzanne Proulx)
- Short Story:Imagination (Gordon Hall Gerould)
- Short Story:In persuasion nation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:In the Flow of Time (Beatrice Griffith)
- Short Story:In the Porches of My Ears (Norman Prentiss)
- Short Story:In the Smile Place (Tobi Ogundiran)
- Short Story:Indian on the Road (Gean Clark)
- Short Story:Infinity Sky (Kristen Lepionka)
- Short Story:Inheritance (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:Interpreting American Gothic (Rebecca McKanna)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Not You (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Jollof Rice and Revolutions (Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Leaving Gotham City (Yaa Gyasi)
- Short Story:Liberté (Scott Nadelson)
- Short Story:Life-pod (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Like a Winding Sheet (Ann Petry)
- Short Story:Lot 14 (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Madame Lazarus (Maile Meloy)
- Short Story:Maidencane (Chad B. Anderson)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Mayfly (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Mine Seven (Elana Gomel)
- Short Story:Moving On (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Mr Salary (Sally Rooney)
- Short Story:Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Mule No. 095 (Kimon Lolos)
- Short Story:New World (Akil Kumarasamy)
- Short Story:New York Mining Disaster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Night Club (Katharine Brush)
- Short Story:Nightblooming (Kenneth Calhoun)
- Short Story:North Is Black (Oliver La Farge, 2nd)
- Short Story:Nothing Living Lives Alone (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Old Photographs (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:On These Blackened Shores of Time (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:One Bullet. One Vote. (Faye Snowden)
- Short Story:One Giant Leap (Jay Werkheiser)
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Our Children (Vanessa Cuti)
- Short Story:Pan Is Dead (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Pat + Sam (Lisa Ko)
- Short Story:Pecos Bill (Moira Crone)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Pheasants Of Detroit (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Ragman (Rebecca Lloyd)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Samuel Blane (Murray Dyer)
- Short Story:Sanford and Sun (Dawolu Jabari Anderson)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Secret Stream (Héctor Tobar)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Serenade (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Seven (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Silver Door Diner (Bishop Garrison)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Sleet Storm (Louise Lambertson)
- Short Story:Small Medicine (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Snow (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Spring Story (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Symphonesque (Arthur Huff Fauset)
- Short Story:That Fine Place We Had Last Year (Roderick Lull)
- Short Story:That Greek Dog (MacKinlay Kantor)
- Short Story:The Abandonment (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Apex Predator (William Dylan Powell)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Fire (I. V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Beekeeper’s Garden (Christopher Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Blindfold (Tobias S. Buckell)
- Short Story:The Blue Fairy's Manifesto (Annalee Newitz)
- Short Story:The Blue Sash (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:The Contemporary Foxwife (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Crooked House (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Faithful (Lester del Rey)
- Short Story:The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:The Farms (Eleanor Henderson)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Forgotten Songs Incident (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Foster Portfolio (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Get-Go (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Goophered Grapevine (Charles W. Chestnut)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Hemlock Tree (Vincent Sheean)
- Short Story:The Honey Pot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Hope Chest (Sarah Read)
- Short Story:The Hunch (A. H. Z. Carr)
- Short Story:The Incident of 10 November (Jeffery Deaver)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Joybell (Dorothy Thomas)
- Short Story:The Last Exorcist (Danny Lore)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Little Black Boys (Clara Laidlaw)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Metal Bowl (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Model House (William Hazlett Upson)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Marianne Hauser)
- Short Story:The Murder (John Steinbeck)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Nurse (Ben Ames Williams)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The Other Room (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silence of Thelonious Monk (John Edgar Wideman)


