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- Short Story:A City of Churches (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:A Clearing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:A Danger to Ourselves (Molly Quinn)
- Short Story:A Few Things Wrong with Me (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:A Game of Catch (Richard Wilbur)
- Short Story:A Heart of Furious Fancies (Winona McClintic)
- 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 Sick Call (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:A Stand of Fables (William Lychack)
- Short Story:A Statue for Father (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:A Subtle Web: A Tale from the Somadeva Chronicles (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:A Telephone Call (Dorothy Parker)
- Short Story:A Thing of Beauty (Elias Lieberman)
- Short Story:A Tiny Mirror (Eloise C. C. Shepherd)
- Short Story:A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch)
- Short Story:A Window (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Adams (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Adventure (Emily Hahn)
- Short Story:Africans (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Afternoon In The Jungle (Albert Maltz)
- 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:An Unknown Warrior (Susan M. Boogher)
- Short Story:Answer (Ruth Pine Furniss)
- Short Story:Apple Seed and Apple Thorn (Elizabeth Enright)
- 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:Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny)
- Short Story:Autumn Full of Apples (Dan Wakefield)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Beasts of the Wild (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief (Katinka Loeser)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Kristina Ten)
- 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:Blind Man's Buff (Libby Benedict)
- Short Story:Blind Vision (Mary Mitchell Freedley)
- Short Story:Bloody Rhapsody (Alessandro Manzetti)
- Short Story:Born of Man and Woman (Richard Matheson)
- Short Story:Boys, Boys (Rick Moody)
- Short Story:Bridge (Daniel J. O'Malley)
- Short Story:Burying Angel O'Malley (Alison Clement)
- Short Story:Buttony (Fiona McFarlane)
- Short Story:Buy Jupiter (Isaac Asimov)
- Short Story:Canada (Callum Angus)
- Short Story:Car-Crash While Hitchhiking (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Chaos, Disorder and the Late Show (Warren Miller)
- Short Story:Chicane (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Complicities (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Concert (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Dance of Bones (Maurice Broaddus)
- Short Story:Day of Gold and Darkness (Robert Fontaine)
- Short Story:Death and Other Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Deaths of Distant Friends (John Updike)
- Short Story:Departure of Hubbard (Robert Gibbons)
- Short Story:Design in Plaster (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Down to a Sunless Sea (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Dr. Cahn's Visit (Richard Stern)
- 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:Escape from the Dysphesiac People (Brandon Hobson)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- 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:Falling Onto Mars (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:Fears of Mrs. Orlando (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:First Marriage (St. Clair McKelway)
- 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:French Lesson I (Lydia Davis)
- 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 of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death (N.K. Jemisin)
- 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:Heart of Marzipan (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:Helen, I Love You! (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:Henry James, This One's for You (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Her Breath Upon The Windowpane (William Goyen)
- Short Story:High Diver (John Ashworth)
- Short Story:Home and Native Land (Séan Virgo)
- Short Story:Home From Camp (Bob Van Scoyk)
- Short Story:Honeymoon (Arturo Vivante)
- Short Story:Horror Story (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Horse Thief (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:I CAN SPEAK!™ (George Saunders)
- Short Story:I See You Never (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:Ibrahima and the Green Fishing Net (Omar William Sow)
- Short Story:In a Park (Nahum Sabsay)
- Short Story:In the Late Cretaceous (Connie Willis)
- Short Story:In the Museum of Tense Moments (Becky Hagenston)
- Short Story:In The Open Code (Burton Kline)
- Short Story:It Had to be Done (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:It's Carnival! (Tiffany D. Jackson)
- Short Story:Jishin (Robert Christopher)
- Short Story:Job History (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Jujitsu (Eleanor Ross Taylor)
- Short Story:Just Another Desert Night with Blood (Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
- Short Story:Ladybug, Fly Away Home (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:Liminal: The Little Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Living Alone (Robley Wilson)
- Short Story:Loneliness is in Your Blood (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Look at a Teacup (Patricia Hampl)
- Short Story:Love (Jesse Stuart)
- Short Story:Ma laja (Tracey Baptiste)
- 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:Mirror, Mirror (Vanessa Clark)
- Short Story:Missing Women (June Spence)
- Short Story:More Like a Coffin (Hazel Hawthorne)
- Short Story:Mother Tanner (John Lineaweaver)
- 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:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:My Father and the Circus (Frank Brookhouscr)
- Short Story:My Father Sits in the Dark (Jerome Weidman)
- Short Story:Napoleon's Hat Under Glass (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:Nayla (Youmna Chlala)
- Short Story:Night Garden (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:No Flowers (Gordon Arthur Smith)
- Short Story:Nobody Listens When I Talk (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Nobody Say A Word (Mark Van Doren)
- Short Story:Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (Jack McDevitt)
- Short Story:Now There is Peace (Richard Sherman)
- Short Story:O (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:On the Way to Somewhere Else (Joseph Stanley Pennell)
- Short Story:Once a Very Stupid Man (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:One With Shakespeare (Martha Foley)
- Short Story:Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Thomas Wolfe)
- Short Story:Orientation (Daniel Orozco)
- Short Story:Origin Story (Matthew Baker)
- 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:Patrols (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Pet Milk (Stuart Dybeck)
- 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:Princess Anne (Jim Allyn)
- Short Story:Rate Me (Rebecca Schiff)
- Short Story:Reach (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Requiem Without Sound (Izzy Wasserstein)
- Short Story:Resurgam (Louis Zara)
- Short Story:Rhodes Scholar (Allen Read)
- Short Story:Robot (Helena Bell)
- Short Story:Runway (Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark)
- 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:Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)
- Short Story:Señor Payroll (William E. Barrett)
- Short Story:She Always Wanted Shoes (Don Ludlow)
- Short Story:Shoulder Season (Cara Blue Adams)
- Short Story:Signal (L. D. Lewis)
- Short Story:Signal (LD Lewis)
- Short Story:Simple Aveu (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Sister Lilith (Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
- Short Story:Sixteen (Maureen Daly)
- Short Story:Smile for the Man, Dear (Justin Herman)
- Short Story:Solstice (Anne Enright)
- Short Story:Some Agonies Over and Over (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Something Gay and Magical (Adam Silvera)
- Short Story:Something That Happened (Jayne Anne Phillips)
- Short Story:Souvenir of Arizona (Benedict Thielen)
- Short Story:Spar (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:Sportsmen (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:STET (Sarah Gailey)
- Short Story:Still Life of a Death Broker (Rich Larson)
- Short Story:Still of Some Use (John Updike)
- Short Story:Story (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Strays (Mark Richard)
- Short Story:Subpoena (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Suite 2049 (Sally Benson)
- Short Story:Sunday Lunch (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:Supers (Frederick Booth)
- Short Story:Tags (Walter Dean Myers)
- 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 Blowzy Goddess Fame (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:That in Aleppo Once. . .' (Vladimir Nabokov)
- Short Story:The 21st Century Shadow (Stephanie M. Wytovich)
- Short Story:The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel) (Anthony Joseph)
- Short Story:The Amateurs (Harvey B. Swados)
- Short Story:The Answer That You Are Seeking (Jenny Rae Rappaport)
- Short Story:The Apostate (George Milburn)
- Short Story:The Astral Visitor Delta Blues (Robert Fleming)
- Short Story:The Becoming (Akua Lezli Hope)
- 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 Cheat's Remorse (Morley Callaghan)
- Short Story:The Chicane (Amy Hempel)
- Short Story:The Cold Winter (Erksine Caldwell)
- Short Story:The Continental Heart (Lissa Maclaughlin)
- Short Story:The Covering Storm (David H. Ingram)
- 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 Daydreamer by Proxy (Dexter Palmer)
- Short Story:The Dead Boy at Your Window (Bruce Holland Rogers)
- Short Story:The Departure (Selma Robinson)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Double House (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Dragon (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Eye (Paul Bowles)
- 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)

