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- Short Story:A Beneficiary (Nadine Gordimer)
- Short Story:A Bird, a Song, a Revolution (Brooke Bolander)
- 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 Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife (Scott Grand)
- Short Story:A Boy and His Dog (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:A Boy's Duty (Sharon G. Flake)
- Short Story:A Brief and Hideous Scrawl (Erin Brown)
- Short Story:A Can of Paint (A. E. van Vogt)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Country Killing (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Country Love Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Day In The Life of the Boss (Hugh Geeslin, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Death in the Family (Wingate Froscher)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Different Kind of Imperfection (Thomas Beller)
- Short Story:A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:A Family (Jamel Brinkley)
- Short Story:A Fine Mist of Blood (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:A Flawless Silence (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Friend of Napoleon (Richard Connell)
- Short Story:A Girl I Knew (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:A Good Home (Karin Lowachee)
- Short Story:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:A Guilty Woman (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:A Hundred Nights of Nothing (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville (Kyle Minor)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Kiss with Teeth (Max Gladstone)
- Short Story:A Leo, Like Jackie O (Jillian Jackson)
- Short Story:A Letter to Mr. Priest (Margaret Cousins)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
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- Short Story:A Lonely Coast (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Love Story (Samantha Hunt)
- Short Story:A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:A Man Like Him (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
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- Short Story:A Partial List of the Saved (Danielle McLaughlin)
- Short Story:A Party in Miami Beach (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:A Saucer of Loneliness (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:A Secret Society (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Sheltered Woman (Yiyun Li)
- 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 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 Bloody Gift (Naomi Day)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Stop on the Way to Texas (Ward Dorrance)
- 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’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tale From the Grave (Ira V. Morris, Jr.)
- Short Story:A Thin Line Rises (Morgan Talty)
- Short Story:A Thing of Beauty (Norman Spinrad)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
- Short Story:A Treat for Your Last Day (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasties (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:A.T. Greenblatt—One Time, a Reluctant Traveler (A.T. Greenblatt)
- Short Story:Abandoned Places (S. L. Coney)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:After a Life (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:After King Kong Fell (Philip José Farmer)
- Short Story:Afterlife (Stephen King)
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- Short Story:Aguanile (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Air Raid (John Varley)
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- Short Story:All Around the Town (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:All Boy (Lori Ostlund)
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- Short Story:All Our Yesterdays (Andrew Klavan)
- Short Story:All Souls' (Gladys Schmitt)
- Short Story:All That the Storm Took (Yah Yah Scholfield)
- Short Story:All the Colors You Thought Were Kings (Arkady Martine)
- Short Story:All the Last Wars at Once (George Alec Effinger)
- Short Story:All the Time We've Left to Spend (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:All Things Come Around (William Soldan)
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- Short Story:All Together Now (Ramez Naam & Jason M. Hough)
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- Short Story:Alone (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Always Good For A Belly Laugh (Emilie Glen)
- Short Story:Amman Sabet—Skipping Stones in the Dark (Amman Sabet)
- Short Story:An Account of the Land of Witches (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:An East Egg Update (George Bradley)
- Short Story:An Exile in the East (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:And Now His Lordship Is Laughing (Shiv Ramdas)
- Short Story:And Songs Don’t End (Osahon Ize-Iyamu)
- Short Story:And the Gods Laughed (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:And the Winners Will Be Swept Out To Sea (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:And This is How to Stay Alive (Shingai Njeri Kagunda)
- Short Story:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Angel (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Anonymous (Uzodinma Iweala)
- Short Story:Another Short Day in La Luz (Harriet Doerr)
- Short Story:Another Story (Jack Matthews)
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- Short Story:Anything Helps (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Aphrodisiac (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
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- Short Story:Arboreteum (Habiba Dokubo-Asari)
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- Short Story:Are We Not Men? (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Ark of Bones (Henry Dumas)
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- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
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- Short Story:At the Bottom of New Lake (Sonya Larson)
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- Short Story:Attention, Please. Now (Matthew Pitt)
- Short Story:Audition (Saïd Sayrafiezadeh)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
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- Short Story:Avid (John Casey)
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- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Baby, You Were Great (Kate Wilhelm)
- Short Story:Babylon Revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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- Short Story:Back Along the Old Track (Sam Hicks)
- Short Story:Bad Boy from Brooklyn (Michael Seide)
- Short Story:Barn Burning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Baroness (E. Catherine Tobler)
- Short Story:Base Life (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:Basil the Dog (Frances Sherwood)
- Short Story:Beautifully and Bravely (Harry Sylvester)
- Short Story:Bebo (Jared Jackson)
- Short Story:Beebee (Diane Vreuls)
- Short Story:Beginning of Wisdom (Rachel Field)
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- Short Story:Between Dry Ribs (Gregory Norman Bossert)
- Short Story:Biceps (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Big Days Beginning (Edward Harris Heth)
- Short Story:Big, Black, Good Man (Richard Wright)
- Short Story:Billy (Mildred Cram)
- Short Story:Bird Song (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Birds of Passage (Gordon B. White)
- Short Story:Birthday Girl (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Birthday Party (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Birthmates (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:Black Angel (Walidah Imarisha)
- Short Story:Black Betty (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Black Feathers (Alison Littlewood)
- Short Story:Black Snowflakes (Paul Horgan)
- Short Story:Black Wolf (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Blood Is Another Word for Hunger (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Blood Ties (Jade Wilburn)
- Short Story:Bloody Summer (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Blooms of Sorrow (Amanda Helms)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Blueprints for St. Louis (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Bob Darling (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Bologoye (Mikhail Iossel)
- Short Story:Bones of Crow (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Bonus Baby (Joe Donnelly)
- Short Story:Boogieman (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Bound (Maurine Dallas Watkins)
- Short Story:Bounty (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Boxes (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Boys and Girls (Alice Munro)
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- Short Story:Brandy City (Mia Arderne)
- Short Story:Bravery (Charles Baxter)
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- Short Story:Brightened Star Ascending Dawn (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:Broad Day (Reynolds Price)
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- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
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- Short Story:Burn Your Maps (Robyn Joy Leff)
- Short Story:Burns (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Buster (Katharine Holland Brown)
- Short Story:Butterflies (Rose Sidney)
- Short Story:Buying Lenin (Miroslav Penkov)
- Short Story:By Boat, Drawn by Swans (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Calved (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Capsule of Souls (Dexter F. I. Joseph)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Cargo (E. Michael Lewis)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (Nick Wolven)
- Short Story:Cat in a Box (Kevin Prufer)
- Short Story:Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Celeste Rita Baker—Glass Bottle Dancer (Celeste Rita Baker)
- Short Story:Chains (Elma Godchaux)
- Short Story:Champlin (Morgan Burke)
- Short Story:Chance (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Chance Traveller (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Change (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Child of All Ages (P. J. Plauger)
- Short Story:Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone (Terry Bramlett)
- Short Story:Children of the Good Book (J. M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Chip Off the Old Block (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Christians (Tom Franklin)
- Short Story:Church of Birds (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:Circle of Prayer (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:City Visit (Adam Haslett)
- Short Story:Claws and Savages (Martin Stokes)
- Short Story:Cleaver, Meat, and Block (Maria Haskins)
- Short Story:Clementine, Carmelita, Dog (David Means)
- Short Story:Click (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Clothing (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Coach (Mary Robinson)
- Short Story:Cocoon (Nancy Kress)
- Short Story:Cold Little Bird (Ben Marcus)


