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- Short Story:22XX: One-Shot (Jelani Wilson)
- Short Story:A Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife (Scott Grand)
- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Fine Specimen (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- Short Story:A Good Marriage (Ed Kurtz)
- Short Story:A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
- Short Story:A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (David Gates)
- Short Story:A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville (Kyle Minor)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Little Customer Service (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:A Man Looking for Trouble (Lee Martin)
- Short Story:A Sheltered Woman (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Terror (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A Will of Iron (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:About My Aunt (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Acres of Perhaps (Will Ludwigsen)
- Short Story:Afterlife of a Stolen Child (Janette Turner Hospital)
- Short Story:Aftermath (LeVar Burton)
- Short Story:Aguanile (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Aida (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Al Roosten (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All the Day You'll Have Good Luck (Kate Jonez)
- Short Story:Allochton (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:Almost Like Christmas (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:And the Winners Will Be Swept Out To Sea (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead (Brooke Bolander)
- Short Story:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Antarctica (Laura van den Berg)
- Short Story:Apocrypha (Richard Lange)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Apports (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Ark of Bones (Henry Dumas)
- Short Story:As Good as New (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Asymmetrical Warfare (S. R. Algernon)
- Short Story:At Life's Limits (Kiini Ibura Salaam)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Aye, and Gomorrah (Samuel R. Delany)
- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Base Life (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:Benjamin's Freedom Magic (Ronald T. Jones)
- Short Story:Better (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Between the Pilings (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:Black Angel (Walidah Imarisha)
- Short Story:Black Dog (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Black No More (excerpt from the novel) (George S. Schuyler)
- Short Story:Blood Wedding (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Bodega (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Bones of Crow (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Border Crossing (Susan Thornton)
- Short Story:Bride (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Bridge (Daniel J. O'Malley)
- Short Story:Buddy Bolden (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Bullet Number Two (Hannah Tinti)
- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:Bush-Hammer Finish (Michelle Butler Hallett)
- Short Story:Butta's Backyard Barbecue (Tony Medina)
- Short Story:Buying and Selling (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:By Degrees and Dilatory Time (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Call Out (Stephen Toase)
- Short Story:Calved (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Can You Wear My Eyes (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Charity (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Chicago 1927 (Jewelle Gomez)
- Short Story:Children Who Fly (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:Christians (Tom Franklin)
- Short Story:Christmas Eve at the Exit (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- Short Story:Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Cold Little Bird (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collard Greens, Hummingbirds and Spider Silk (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Collateral (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Conceptual Art (Brett Beach)
- Short Story:Covenant (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew Bourelle)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew D. Bourelle)
- Short Story:Crush Depth (Brendan Dubois)
- Short Story:Cry of the Kharchal (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Departures (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Descent (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Dispatches from a Hole in the World (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Dog (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Dog (Charles Mcleod)
- Short Story:Down to a Sunless Sea (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Dreamer's Recall (Jeff Carroll)
- Short Story:Each to Each (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Edge of Innocence (Ced Pharaoh)
- Short Story:Entwined (Brian Tobin)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Exhortation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Exit Wound (Nathan Poole)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Fable (Charles Yu)
- Short Story:Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Fest (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Festered Wounds (Nancy Pauline Simpson)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fool Proof (Bruce Robert Coffin)
- Short Story:Fools (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:For Something to Do (Elmore Leonard)
- Short Story:For the God of Love, for the Love of God (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Former Marine (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Free Your Mind (Kai Leakes)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Galicia (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Ganger (Ball Lightning) (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Garments (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Ghostreaper, or, Life after Revenge (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Gifted (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Gimmile's Songs (Charles R. Saunders)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:God's Plan for Dr. Gaynor and Hastings Chiume (Saral Waldorf)
- Short Story:Going Across Jordan (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Going Too Far (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Good Night (Paul Maliszewski)
- Short Story:Gospodar (Garth Greenwell)
- Short Story:Greedy Choke Puppy (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Halfway Home (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Harm and Hammer (Joseph D'Agnese)
- Short Story:Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez? (Isabel Yap)
- Short Story:Headshot (Julian Mortimer Smith)
- Short Story:Hello Again (Seth Fried)
- Short Story:Hello Hello (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Herd Immunity (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All (Naomi (Rahul) Kanakia)
- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
- Short Story:Hippocampus (Adam Nevill)
- Short Story:Hold-Time Violations (John Chu)
- Short Story:Hollow (Mia Mingus)
- Short Story:Home (Alice McDermott)
- Short Story:Home (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Homing Instinct (Dani McClain)
- Short Story:Horror Story (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Hover (Nell Freudenberger)
- Short Story:How Frank Died (Paul Christensen)
- Short Story:How High the Moon (B. sharise Moore)
- Short Story:How the Marquis Got His Coat Back (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:How to Get Back to the Forest (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:How to Lose Everything in Twelve Easy Steps (Alethea Black)
- Short Story:How to Make Flan (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:Hunter's First Rule (Gerald L. Coleman)
- Short Story:Hussy Strutt (Ama Patterson)
- Short Story:I Can See Right Through You (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:I Will Follow You (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:If God is Watching (Mikki Kendall)
- Short Story:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:In a Cavern, in a Canyon (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:In Spite of Darkness (Alixa Garcia)
- Short Story:In the Cave of the Delicate Singers (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:In the Dying Light We Saw a Shape (Jeremiah Tolbert)
- Short Story:In the Image of Man (Gabriella Stalker)
- Short Story:Indian Giver (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Interesting Facts (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:Interior: Monkeyboy (Patrick Flanery)
- Short Story:Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales (Jeanine Hall Gailey)
- Short Story:It Flows from the Mouth (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:Jack, July (Victor Lodato)
- Short Story:Jackalope Wives (Ursula Vernon)
- Short Story:Jaws of Saturn (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:Kaddish for the Last Survivor (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Kafka's Last Laugh (Vagabond)
- Short Story:Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:Kattekoppen (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Kavitha and Mustafa (Shobha Rao)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:Kids (Luke Mogelson)
- Short Story:Kilifi Creek (Lionel Shriver)
- Short Story:La Pulchra Nota (Molly McNett)
- Short Story:La Pura Verdad (Manuel Muñoz)
- Short Story:Lafferty's Ghost (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:Lalibela (Gabriel Teodros)
- Short Story:Let Baser Things Devise (Berrien C. Henderson)
- Short Story:Let's have a talk (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Lightning Jack's Last Ride (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Like a Sea Cucumber (Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Like Daughter (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Little Brown Mouse (Tunde Olaniran)
- Short Story:Little Man (Michael Cunningham)
- Short Story:Lockbox (E. Catherine Tobler)
- Short Story:Long Tom Lookout (Nicole Cullen)
- Short Story:Lord of the Sand (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Lucky Dragon (Viet Dinh)
- Short Story:M & L (Sarah Kokernot)
- Short Story:Madame Bovary's Greyhound (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:Madame Lazarus (Maile Meloy)
- Short Story:Madeleine (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:Mailman (Jonathan Stone)
- Short Story:Majorlena (Jane Jakeman)
- Short Story:Makeisha in Time (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Many Dogs Have Died Here (James Mathews)
- Short Story:Marla (Jerome Charyn)
- Short Story:Mastiff (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Medium Tough (Craig Davidson)
- Short Story:Meet Me In Iram (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Men in Black (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:Meshed (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Mission: Surreality (K. Ceres Wright)
- Short Story:Molly's Plan (John M. Floyd)
- Short Story:Mother's Day (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Motherlode (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Moving On (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Mr. Hill's Death (S.L. Gilbow)
- Short Story:Mr. Splitfoot (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Mr. Voice (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Muñeca (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:My Boy Builds Coffins (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:My Chivalric Fiasco (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Heart is Either Broken (Megan Abbott)
- Short Story:Neversleeps (Fred Van Lente)
- Short Story:Next to Nothing (Stephen O'Connor)
- Short Story:Night Garden (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:Nigredo (Cody Goodfellow)
- Short Story:Nine (Kima Jones)
- Short Story:No Placeholder for You My Love (Nick Wolven)
- Short Story:No Slant to the Sun (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:North (Aria Beth Sloss)
- Short Story:Now We Will Be Happy (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:O (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:October's Son (Will Kaufman)
- Short Story:Of Windows and Doors (Mohsin Hamid)
