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- Short Story:55 Miles to the Gas Pump (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:90 Miles (Alex Segura)
- Short Story:A Danger to Ourselves (Molly Quinn)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Fresno Fable (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Loint of Paw (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Nun No More (John Fante)
- Short Story:A Perfect Day for Kangaroos (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:A Subtle Web: A Tale from the Somadeva Chronicles (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Air to Shape Lungs (Shingai Njeri Kagunda)
- Short Story:All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:An Arm Upraised (Alan MacDonald)
- Short Story:An Old Man and His Hat (George H. Freitag)
- Short Story:Another Word for Map is Faith (Christopher Rowe)
- Short Story:Ark of Light (Victor LaValle)
- Short Story:Art of Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Astronaut (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Asymmetrical Warfare (S. R. Algernon)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Azathoth (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Best Friendster Date Ever (Alexander Chee)
- Short Story:Betty Hutton (Roy Parvin)
- 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:Blank! (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Born of Man and Woman (Richard Matheson)
- Short Story:Bridge (Daniel J. O'Malley)
- Short Story:Butta's Backyard Barbecue (Tony Medina)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Canada (Callum Angus)
- Short Story:Chicane (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Cinderella School (Lara Vapnyar)
- Short Story:City Employment (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Cockroaches in Autumn (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dangling Modifiers (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Dog (Charles Mcleod)
- Short Story:Down to a Sunless Sea (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Dreams of Distant Lives (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:Encounters with Unexpected Animals (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Episode From Life (Louis Mamet)
- Short Story:Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Excerpts from the Suicide Letters of Jonathan Bender (Michael Kimball)
- Short Story:Exhortation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Extracts from a Life (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- 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:Four Worms Turning (Morton Stern)
- Short Story:Freedom (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Frozen Stillness (Alfred Morang)
- Short Story:Fugue for Harmonica (Allan Seager)
- Short Story:Game (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Gaston (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:Glory Goes and Gets Some (Emily Carter)
- Short Story:Good Night (Paul Maliszewski)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Happy Trails (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:Headshot (Julian Mortimer Smith)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Horror Story (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friend's House (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:In a House Beseiged (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In The Metropolis (Benjamin Rosenblatt)
- Short Story:In the Museum of Tense Moments (Becky Hagenston)
- Short Story:In The Open Code (Burton Kline)
- Short Story:In the Park (Eugene Joffe)
- Short Story:Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales (Jeanine Hall Gailey)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:It's Carnival! (Tiffany D. Jackson)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Last Days 1 (Tamiko Beyer)
- Short Story:Let's have a talk (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Lockwood (Bryan Washington)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Mamma Is a Lady (David Cornel De Jong)
- Short Story:Man and Woman (Erskine Caldwell)
- Short Story:Mantis Wives (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Margins (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Martyr (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Mary When You Follow Her (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Masks (Peter Sutton)
- Short Story:Midrash on Happiness (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Mildred and the Oboe (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Mirror, Mirror (Vanessa Clark)
- Short Story:Moom! (Nnedi Okorafor)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- Short Story:Mothers (Lydia Davis)
- 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:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Night Garden (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:No Matter Which Way We Turned (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:O What Freedom, This Great Steel Cage (Shane Halbach)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Sidewalk (Calvin Williams)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One Hour, Every Seven Years (Alice Sola Kim)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Origin Story (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Othello Pop (Andaiye Reeves)
- Short Story:Outside Yuma (Benjamin Appel)
- Short Story:Paddle to Canada (Heather Monley)
- Short Story:Parish of Cockroaches (Vincent McHugh)
- Short Story:Passing Through (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- Short Story:Piano (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:Poison (Cyd Athens)
- Short Story:Ponies (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Portrait (Ethel G. Lewis)
- Short Story:Powder (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Power Of Horizon (Leon Srabian Herald)
- Short Story:Problem (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Prom (Danielle Paige)
- Short Story:Rate Me (Rebecca Schiff)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Retouch/Switch (Cara Hoffman)
- Short Story:Rhizome (Libia Brenda)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Robot (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Rose (John Biguenet)
- Short Story:Runway (Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark)
- Short Story:Safe Love (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Safeword (R.O. Kwon)
- Short Story:Samson and the Delilahs (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- Short Story:Sanctuary (Nella Larsen)
- Short Story:Scales (Alastair Reynolds)
- Short Story:Search Through the Streets of the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:Shoulder Season (Cara Blue Adams)
- Short Story:Sideshow (Catherine MacLeod)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Sleeping, I Was Beauty (Sandi Leibowitz)
- Short Story:Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy (Arthur Kober)
- Short Story:Something Gay and Magical (Adam Silvera)
- Short Story:Star Wars and the American Imagination (Mumia Abu Jamal)
- Short Story:STET (Sarah Gailey)
- Short Story:Sticks (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Still Life of a Death Broker (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Stop ’n’ Go (Michael Parker)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Supers (Frederick Booth)
- Short Story:Sweeney among the Straight Razors (Joselle Vanderhooft)
- Short Story:Tally (Noy Holland)
- Short Story:Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast (Gwendolyn Clare)
- Short Story:Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island (Nibedita Sen)
- Short Story:That in Aleppo Once. . .' (Vladimir Nabokov)
- Short Story:The 21st Century Shadow (Stephanie M. Wytovich)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Becoming (Akua Lezli Hope)
- Short Story:The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights (Albert Du Verney Pentz)
- Short Story:The Biography of Blade (Zona Gale)
- Short Story:The Black Waters of Lethe (Oliver Buckram)
- Short Story:The Blood Bay (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Bone (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Brother-in-Law (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Chicane (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Cottages (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Cradle of Civilization (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:The Cry Of The Butterfly (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Cure (Melissa Febos)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Death Collector (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Dragon (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Extinction of Homo Sapiens (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Faithful Wife (Morley Callaghan)
- 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 Father's Hand (G. Humphrey)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Fish (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Gift of the Prodigal (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Grave (Katherine Anne Porter)
- Short Story:The Great Silence (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:The Hanging of the Schoolmarm (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Hare's Mask (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:The Honest Wine Merchant (Helena Lefroy Caperton)
- Short Story:The Housemaid (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto (R. H. Linn)
- Short Story:The Jew (Edwin Seaver)
- Short Story:The Last Dive (Carlos Drake)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Little Green Monster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The lonely, salty sea (A. J. Locke)
- Short Story:The Lost Novel (Sherwood Anderson)
- Short Story:The Man At The River (Dave Eggers)
- Short Story:The Model (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Mother (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Mouse (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Old Women Who Were Skinned (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Overcoat (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:The Pawnshop (John S. Sexton)
- Short Story:The pelican's shadow (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
- Short Story:The Planet That Didn't Care (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The President's Doubles (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Race Goes to the Swiftest (Barry Lopez)
- Short Story:The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Raft, The Raft (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Return (Peter Orner)
- Short Story:The Romantic Sailor (James Stevens)
- Short Story:The Sacred Thing (Paul Ryan)
- Short Story:The Sampler (Ira V. Morris)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Sock (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Sound That Frost Makes (Solon R. Barber)
- Short Story:The Tambourine Lady (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Thirteenth Hell (Mike Allen)
- Short Story:The Thunderstorm (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:The Valet of the Splendide (Ludwig Bemelmans)
- Short Story:The Voyage Out (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Wedding Week (Rosellen Brown)
- Short Story:The World War I Los Angeles Airplane (Richard Brautigan)
- Short Story:The Year of Spaghetti (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:There and Back Again (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista (Isabel Canas)


