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- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
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- Short Story:2430 A.D. (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:5135 Kensington: August, 1903 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:93990 (George Saunders)
- Short Story:A 'Poor Aunt' Story (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Beneficiary (Nadine Gordimer)
- Short Story:A Birth in the Woods (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blade of Grass (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Boxer: Old (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:A Bridge Under Water (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Change of Air (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:A Change of Season (James Bond)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Country Passion (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Curtain of Green (Eudora Welty)
- Short Story:A Day in the Country (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Death on the East Side (Herbert Gold)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Distant Episode (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:A Distant Harbour (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:A Dream of Armageddon (H. G. Wells)
- Short Story:A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:A Family Affair (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Father's Story (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fine Mist of Blood (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Friend of Napoleon (Richard Connell)
- Short Story:A Fugitive From the Mind (Peggy Bennett)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Girl for Walter (Theodore Jacobs)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Glass of Blessings (Glendon Swarthout)
- Short Story:A Good Loser (Elizabeth Cullinan)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Great Reckoning In a Little Room (Geoffrey Bush)
- Short Story:A Guilty Woman (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:A Gun for Dinosaur (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- Short Story:A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Short Story:A House on the Plains (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Kind of Sunset (Erling Larsen)
- Short Story:A Letter to Mr. Priest (Margaret Cousins)
- Short Story:A Life in the Day of a Writer (Tess Slesinger)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Little Walk (Alvah C. Bessie)
- Short Story:A Loaf of Bread (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:A Local Skirmish (Noel Houston)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Lonely Coast (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Long Story Short (Shirley Hazzard)
- Short Story:A Man Like Him (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe)
- Short Story:A Martian Odyssey (Stanley G. Weinbaum)
- Short Story:A Master Time (James Still)
- Short Story:A Matter of Price (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:A Memory of Wind (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:A Mercenary (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Mountain Summer (James Ballard)
- Short Story:A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Natural History of Autumn (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A New Gravestone for an Old Grave (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:A Night Among the Horses (Djuna Barnes)
- Short Story:A Night's Work (Jaimy Gordon)
- Short Story:A Nous La Liberté (David Shaber)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Pail of Air (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:A Pair of Shoes (Max White)
- Short Story:A Partnership With Death (Vardis Fisher)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- 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 Preference for Native Tongue (Don Lee)
- Short Story:A Pretty Cute Little Stunt (George Milburn)
- Short Story:A Princeton Idyll (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:A Private Landscape (Melissa Pritchard)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Real Life (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:A Reasonable Facsimile (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Red Coat For Night (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:A Rich Man (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:A Ride On The Short Dog (James Still)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Sacrifice (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Sermon By Doctor Pep (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Shadow Table (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:A Shinagawa Monkey (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Ship to Tarshish (William Zukerman)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Sick Call (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:A Simple Act of Piety (Achmed Abdullah)
- Short Story:A Simple Case (Cecil Dawkins)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Spoiled Man (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- Short Story:A Spot in History (James B. Hall)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:A Story for Teddy (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Story In An Almost Classical Mode (Harold Brodkey)
- Short Story:A Story of Love, Etc. (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:A Subway Named Mobius (A. J. Deutsch)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer in Puerto Rico (Eleanor Clark)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale From the Grave (Ira V. Morris, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Tale of Inheritance (William Goyen)
- Short Story:A Taste of Dust (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Tenderfoot in Space (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:A Thing of Beauty (Elias Lieberman)
- Short Story:A Thousand Deaths (Jack London)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
- Short Story:A Tooth for Paul Revere (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:A Trip to Czardis (Edwin Granberry)
- Short Story:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Señor Muy Viejo) (Gabriel García Marquez)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Vision of the World (John Cheever)
- Short Story:A Voice in the Night (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:A Week of Roses (Donald Wesley)
- Short Story:A Wife of Nashville (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Wreath For Miss Totten (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:Abingdon Square (André Aciman)
- Short Story:Accomplice (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Admiral (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:After a Life (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Afterlife (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Aftermath (Mary Yukari Waters)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- Short Story:Afternoon Tea (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Air Mail (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Alabama Sketches (Ruby Pickens Tartt)
- Short Story:Alan at the Kirschbergs' (Anna Solomon)
- Short Story:Alaska (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Alcantara (MacGregor Jenkins)
- Short Story:Alive (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:All Ahead Of Them (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:All Around the Town (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:All Boy (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:All My Relations (Christopher McIlroy)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
- Short Story:All Saints Day (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:All Shall Love Me and Despair (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:All Souls' (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:All Through the House (Christopher Coake)
- Short Story:All You Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Short Story:Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell)
- Short Story:Allegiance (Aryn Kyle)
- Short Story:Allog, Allog (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Almos' a Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Alone (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Along A Sandy Road (Ellen Bishop)
- Short Story:Along the Frontage Road (Michael Chabon)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:American Nocturne (Robert Whitehand)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Amethyst (Edwin Corle)
- Short Story:Amid A Place of Stone (Frank Butler)
- Short Story:Amundsen (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:An Afternoon (Elizabeth Warner)
- Short Story:An American Student in Paris (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:An Argument in 1934 (Delmore Schwartz)
- Short Story:An Arm Upraised (Alan MacDonald)
- Short Story:An Arrival at Carthage (Scammon Lockwood)
- Short Story:An Awakening (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:An East Egg Update (George Bradley)
- Short Story:An Evening Performance (George Garrett)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Inch and a Half of Glory (Dashiell Hammett)
- Short Story:An Influx of Poets (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:An interval like this (Robert Gorham Davis)
- Short Story:An Island lor My Friends (Madelon Shapiro)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen (Graham Joyce)
- Short Story:An Unknown Warrior (Susan M. Boogher)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:And We Will Be Here (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Anda's Game (Cory Doctorow)
- Short Story:Andrew (Berry Morgan)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Annunciation (Meridel Le Sueur)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:Another Wife (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:Another Word for Map is Faith (Christopher Rowe)


