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Showing below up to 250 results in range #1 to #250.
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- Short Story:2043 A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania (Dennis Lynds)
- Short Story:A Castle in Outer Space (Cynthia Weiner)
- Short Story:A Change of Air (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:A Family Man (Donald Hutter)
- Short Story:A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Forest, or a Tree (Tregan Moore)
- Short Story:A Gift From the City (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (David Gates)
- Short Story:A Handful of Sky (Elly Bangs)
- Short Story:A History of China (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:A Hotel in Germany (Catriona Ward)
- Short Story:A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:A Little Customer Service (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Princeton Idyll (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:A Rich Man (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:A Righteous Man (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- Short Story:A Sandstone Farmhouse (John Updike)
- Short Story:A Series of Steaks (Vina Jie-Min Prasad)
- Short Story:A Spoiled Man (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- Short Story:A View of the Woods (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Admiral (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Afterlife of a Stolen Child (Janette Turner Hospital)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
- Short Story:Amber Smoke (Kristin Cast)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:American, Abroad (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:An Amount of Discretion (Lauren Alwan)
- Short Story:And We Will Be Here (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Arena (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Artie Gottlieb, Consulting Philosopher (Stephen Schottenfeld)
- Short Story:As Dark As Hunger (Qiouyi S. Lu)
- Short Story:Ashes (T. Alan Broughton)
- Short Story:Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium (Gray Rinehart)
- Short Story:At Life's Limits (Kiini Ibura Salaam)
- Short Story:At the Rialto (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Attachment (David Borofka)
- Short Story:Bad Girl (Valerie O’Riordan)
- Short Story:Bajazzle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Bank On It (Jeremy Stelzner)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful People (Lisa Taddeo)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Benjamen Burning (Joyce Madelon Winslow)
- Short Story:Better You Believe (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Big Bend (Bill Roorbach)
- Short Story:Big Blonde (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:Big Me (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Black Box (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Black. Nerd. Problems (Lamar Giles)
- Short Story:Blue Martini (Barbara Demarco-Barrett)
- Short Story:Boca Raton (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Boobs (Suzy McKee Charnas)
- Short Story:BREACHING THE DISTANCE (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Brightside Crossing (Alan E. Nourse)
- Short Story:Bronze (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Burn the Ships (Alberto Yáñez)
- Short Story:By The River (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Cadence (Andre Dubus)
- Short Story:Can You Feel This? (Julie Orringer)
- Short Story:Can't Cross Jordan by Myself (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Carrie Snyder (Barry Benefield)
- Short Story:Castle Coeurlieu (Naomi Novik)
- Short Story:Changed (Nancy Holder)
- Short Story:Charity (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Chesirah (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Chicago 1927 (Jewelle Gomez)
- Short Story:Christmas Eve at the Exit (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- Short Story:Closely Held (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Colonial Conditions (Brandon Taylor)
- Short Story:Coming of Age in Karhide (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Coming Over (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Commcomm (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Concessions (Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali)
- Short Story:Confusions (Jack Ludwig)
- Short Story:Conservation Laws (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Controller (Jesse Kellerman)
- Short Story:Cookie Jar (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Daddy's Girl (T.N. Eyer)
- Short Story:Dancing Ducks and Talking Anus (James Ferry)
- Short Story:Dead Man Stalking (Rachel Caine)
- Short Story:Departures (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dispatches from the Revolution (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Dogfight (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Each Thing I Show You Is A Piece Of My Death (Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer)
- Short Story:Embarazada (Andrew Foster Altschul)
- Short Story:England Underway (Terry Bisson)
- Short Story:Entrechat (Edith Milton)
- Short Story:Eqalussuaq (Tim Major)
- Short Story:Escape from Spiderhead (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Esmeralda (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:Etaoin Shrdlu (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Even the Queen (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:Face (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fail-Safe (Philip Fracassi)
- Short Story:Falconer (John Cheever)
- Short Story:Family Affair (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Fantasy for Eleven Fingers (Ben Fountain)
- Short Story:Farewell, Sweet Love (Priscilla Heath)
- Short Story:Favor (Shimon Tanaka)
- Short Story:Fields of Gold (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:First, Body (Melanie Rae Thon)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fool About a Horse (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:For Each of Us (Jack Y. Bryan)
- Short Story:For Esmé-With Love and Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
- Short Story:For He Can Creep (Siobhan Carroll)
- Short Story:For I Have Wept (Gerald Stein)
- Short Story:Foxfire, Foxfire (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Funny Little Snake (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:Fur (Laura Glen Louis)
- Short Story:Furtherest (Kaaron Warren)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Ganger (Ball Lightning) (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Gertrude and Sidney (Randall Jarrell)
- Short Story:Ghost Knife (Sharon Pomerantz)
- Short Story:Ghost Lover (Lisa Taddeo)
- Short Story:Ghostreaper, or, Life after Revenge (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Gifted (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Gilman Street (Michelle Ruiz Keil)
- Short Story:Good Rockin' Tonight (William Hauptman)
- Short Story:Grand Mal (Joanna Pearson)
- Short Story:Great Barrier Reef (Diane Johnson)
- Short Story:Gunpowder Alley (Bill Pronzini)
- Short Story:Hand Jive (Andrew Cozine)
- Short Story:Hart and Boot (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Haunted Love (Cynthia Leitich Smith)
- Short Story:Hazel and Gray (Nic Stone)
- Short Story:Herman Melville, Volume I (Victor Lodato)
- Short Story:Home Brew (Grace Sartwell Mason)
- Short Story:Houdini (Siri Hustvedt)
- Short Story:House of the Blues (William Wiser)
- Short Story:House of Wonders (C.E. Ward)
- Short Story:How Frank Died (Paul Christensen)
- Short Story:How to Stay Afloat When Drowning (Daniel Braum)
- Short Story:How You Play the Game (Paul Tyner)
- Short Story:How's Your Vacuum Cleaner Working? (Emily Arnold McCully)
- Short Story:I Would be Doing This Anyway (Jia Tolentino)
- Short Story:Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ House Tour: 1 Per Person (Paul Tremblay)
- Short Story:Icebergs (Alistair Morgan)
- Short Story:In a Cavern, in a Canyon (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:In An Early Winter (Roger Angell)
- Short Story:In Roseau (Jamaica Kincaid)
- Short Story:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:In the Stillness Between the Stars (Mercurio D. Rivera)
- Short Story:Interesting Facts (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:Interior: Monkeyboy (Patrick Flanery)
- Short Story:Invisible Life (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:It Flows from the Mouth (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure (Téa Obreht)
- Short Story:Javi (Han Ong)
- Short Story:Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Julia and Sunny (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:Kennedy (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Lagomorph (Alexander MacLeod)
- Short Story:Lake Natasink (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Lemon Tree (Curt Johnson)
- Short Story:Lijah (Edgar Valentine Smith)
- Short Story:Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart (Elizabeth Eastman)
- Short Story:Lo! (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:Longing For America (David Rubin)
- Short Story:Love Affair (Henrietta Weigel)
- Short Story:Love on a Dark Street (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Lowland Sea (Suzy McKee Charnas)
- Short Story:Making Port (Richard Matthews Hallet)
- Short Story:Man In His Time (Brian Aldiss)
- Short Story:Man-Eating Cats (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Many Dogs Have Died Here (James Mathews)
- Short Story:Mariner's Round (Terry Dowling)
- Short Story:Markowitz and the Gypsies (Norman Waksler)
- Short Story:Men, Women, and Chainsaws (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Meneseteung (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Miami-New York (Martha Gellhorn)
- Short Story:Midwestern Primitive (Ruth Suckow)
- Short Story:Mighty, Mighty Pretty (George Albee)
- Short Story:Modulation (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Moon (Chaim Potok)
- Short Story:Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter (Chitra Divakaruni)
- Short Story:Murder at the Royal Ruby (Nita Prose)
- Short Story:Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness (S. L. Huang)
- Short Story:My Boy Builds Coffins (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:My Evil Mother (Margaret Atwood)
- Short Story:My Mistress (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:Natasha (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:Natural Disasters (Alexis Schaitkin)
- Short Story:Next to Nothing (Stephen O'Connor)
- Short Story:Night Train to Frankfurt (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:Nightbound (Wallace Stroby)
- Short Story:Nirvana (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:No Trace (David Madden)
- Short Story:North (Aria Beth Sloss)
- Short Story:Not Another Word (Richard Thurman)
- Short Story:Notes of a Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)
- Short Story:Occupational Hazard (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:Of Roses and Kings (Melissa Marr)
- Short Story:Old Bill Bent to Drink (Ben Hur Lampman)
- Short Story:Omphalos (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:On The Lake (Ellen Douglas)
- Short Story:On This Side (Yuko Sakata)
- Short Story:Other Worlds and This One (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Our Day of Grace (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Overtime (Charles Stross)
- Short Story:Part of the Act (Sidney Alexander)
- Short Story:Past My Future (David Huddle)
- Short Story:Paying It Forward (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Peking Duck (Ling Ma)
- Short Story:Persephone (Lev Grossman)
- Short Story:Pi in the Sky (Fredric Brown)
- Short Story:Plains of Abraham (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Poor Unfortunate Fools (Silvia Park)
- Short Story:Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Preparations for the Body (Derek Palacio)
- Short Story:Pretty (Nancy Welch)
- Short Story:Queen Elizabeth (Brad Felver)
- Short Story:Rain in the Heart (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:Rat in the Skull (Rog Phillips)
- Short Story:Recitatif (Toni Morrison)
- Short Story:Redbone (Ada Jack Carver)
- Short Story:Remarks: None (William Wister Haines)
- Short Story:Revelation (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:Revival Road (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Rewards (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Rhonda and Clyde (John M. Floyd)
- Short Story:Ripen (Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier)
- Short Story:Rough Strife (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:Sacrid's Pod (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Save the Reaper (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Scales (Cherene Sherrard)
- Short Story:Scream Queen (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:Screenwriter (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:Security (Jeffery Deaver)
- Short Story:Sentience (Nkone Chaka)
- Short Story:Sh'khol (Colum McCann)
- Short Story:Shine, Pamela! Shine! (Kate Atkinson)
- Short Story:Ship Island (Elizabeth Spencer)
