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- Short Story:1,111 Emblems (Hernan Diaz)
- Short Story:1000-Year-Old Ghosts (Laura Chow Reeve)
- Short Story:22XX: One-Shot (Jelani Wilson)
- Short Story:A Brief Moment of Rage (Bill Davidson)
- Short Story:A Clearing (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:A Cruelty (Kevin Barry)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Fine Specimen (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- Short Story:A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong)
- Short Story:A Good Marriage (Ed Kurtz)
- Short Story:A House is a Body (Shruti Swamy)
- Short Story:A Single Deliberate Thing (Zebbie Watson)
- Short Story:A Tiny Mirror (Eloise C. C. Shepherd)
- Short Story:Aftermath (LeVar Burton)
- Short Story:Aida (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All Her Names (Kali Fajardo-Anstine)
- Short Story:Alligator Point (S. P. Miskowski)
- Short Story:Almost Like Christmas (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:An Equal Share of the Bone (Karen Osborne)
- Short Story:An Unfaded Black (Caleb Michael Sarvis)
- Short Story:Ancient Rome (Kyle McCarthy)
- Short Story:Apports (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Aye, and Gomorrah (Samuel R. Delany)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Balloon (Doug Ramspeck)
- Short Story:Banana Triangle Six (Louis Bayard)
- Short Story:Big Boss Bitch (Adrienne Celt)
- Short Story:Bless This Mess (Amy Reed)
- Short Story:Blur (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Bodega (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Border Crossing (Susan Thornton)
- Short Story:Bride Before You (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Buddy Bolden (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Bullet (Stephen Kearse)
- Short Story:Bush-Hammer Finish (Michelle Butler Hallett)
- Short Story:Buttony (Fiona McFarlane)
- Short Story:Call Out (Stephen Toase)
- Short Story:Can You Wear My Eyes (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Carbon Tet (Cary Holladay)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Charlotte Incorporated (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Children Who Fly (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- Short Story:City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Come on, Silver (Ann Glaviano)
- Short Story:Con Con (Russell Nichols)
- Short Story:Crave (Lilliam Rivera)
- Short Story:Defying Definition (Shaun David Hutchinson)
- Short Story:Descent (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Destroy the City with Me Tonight (Kate Marshall)
- Short Story:Eddy (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Everything Is Far From Here (Cristina Henríquez)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Excavate (Melody Gordon)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Festered Wounds (Nancy Pauline Simpson)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Forty Acres and a Mule (Stephanie Malia Morris)
- Short Story:Four Haunted Houses (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:Fran's Friend Has Cancer (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Full Unemployment (Hugh Howey)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:Good with Boys (Kristen Iskandrian)
- Short Story:Gospodar (Garth Greenwell)
- Short Story:Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment (Eden Royce)
- Short Story:Greedy Choke Puppy (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Halfway Home (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:Hehua (Millie Ho)
- Short Story:Hello Again (Seth Fried)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All (Naomi (Rahul) Kanakia)
- Short Story:Hippocampus (Adam Nevill)
- Short Story:Homing Instinct (Dani McClain)
- Short Story:How to Make Flan (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
- Short Story:How We Eat (Mark Jude Poirier)
- Short Story:I Love You Mary-Grace (Amelia Mangan)
- Short Story:I Will Follow You (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:In the Shade of the Pixie Tree (Rodello Santos)
- Short Story:Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities (Lettie Prell)
- Short Story:Kafka's Last Laugh (Vagabond)
- Short Story:Kattekoppen (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Keepers (Che Yeun)
- Short Story:La Pura Verdad (Manuel Muñoz)
- Short Story:Lalibela (Gabriel Teodros)
- Short Story:Land of the Blind (Craig Johnson)
- Short Story:Like a Sea Cucumber (Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Like Daughter (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Liquid Air (Inna Effress)
- Short Story:Little Brown Mouse (Tunde Olaniran)
- Short Story:Loneliness is in Your Blood (Cadwell Turnbull)
- Short Story:Lord of the Sand (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Ma laja (Tracey Baptiste)
- Short Story:Majorlena (Jane Jakeman)
- Short Story:Makeisha in Time (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Meanwhile (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Meet Me In Iram (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Midnight Drives (Andrew Mitchell)
- Short Story:More or Less Like a Man (Michael Powers)
- Short Story:Mr. Hill's Death (S.L. Gilbow)
- Short Story:Mr. Splitfoot (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Mud Holes and Mississippi Mules (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:My Chivalric Fiasco (George Saunders)
- Short Story:My Dear You (Rachel Khong)
- Short Story:My Heart is Either Broken (Megan Abbott)
- Short Story:Nayla (Youmna Chlala)
- Short Story:New Bees (Claire Luchette)
- Short Story:No Exit (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:Now We Will Be Happy (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:O (Robert Boswell)
- Short Story:October's Son (Will Kaufman)
- Short Story:Of Breadcrumbs and Constellations (Lindsey Drager)
- Short Story:Ogres of East Africa (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Older Sister (Christine Sneed)
- Short Story:On a Spiritual Plain (Lou Antonelli)
- Short Story:On the Fringes of the Fractal (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:Only Son (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Palabras (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Past Perfect Continuous (Dounia Choukri)
- Short Story:Pay Phobetor (Shale Nelson)
- Short Story:Persephone of the Crows (Karen Joy Fowler)
- Short Story:Persistence of Vision (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:Pétur (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Pleasant Grove (Scott Loring Sanders)
- Short Story:Plink (Kurt Dinan)
- Short Story:Portfolio (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:Princess Anne (Jim Allyn)
- Short Story:Princess Mine (Darby Harn)
- Short Story:Ravalushan (Mohammed Naseehu Ali)
- Short Story:Red Rabbit (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:Reliable People (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Revival (Wendi Dunlap)
- Short Story:Revolution Shuffle (Bao Phi)
- Short Story:Riley and Robot (Arnica Ross)
- Short Story:Risk Management (Alix Ohlin)
- Short Story:Rosalee Carrasco (Tomiko M. Breland)
- Short Story:Rule Number One (Alan Orloff)
- Short Story:Runway Blackout (Tara Betts)
- Short Story:Satan's Kingdom (Dennis Tafoya)
- Short Story:Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer (Kenneth Schneyer)
- Short Story:Selkie Stories Are for Losers (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut (Dominica Phetteplace)
- Short Story:Singing with All My Skin and Bone (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Sisi Je Kuisha (We Have Ended) (V. H. Galloway)
- Short Story:Sister Lilith (Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
- Short Story:Sleeper (Jo Walton)
- Short Story:Small and Bright (Autumn Brown)
- Short Story:Small Kingdoms (Charlaine Harris)
- Short Story:Smear (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Snuff (Jodi Angel)
- Short Story:Solstice (Anne Enright)
- Short Story:Some Pebbles in the Palm (Kenneth Schneyer)
- Short Story:Something About Love (Alix Ohlin)
- Short Story:Split Chain Stitch (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:Station 4 (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Stemming the Tide (Simon Strantzas)
- Short Story:Suburbia! (Amy Silverberg)
- Short Story:Sweetgrass Blood (Eden Royce)
- Short Story:Talk (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel) (Anthony Joseph)
- Short Story:The Anatomist's Mnemonic (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Archivists (Daphne Kalotay)
- Short Story:The Astral Visitor Delta Blues (Robert Fleming)
- Short Story:The Authenticator (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:The Baptism (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Thing We Will Become (Kristi DeMeester)
- Short Story:The Bell Game (Allison Pinkerton)
- Short Story:The Big Cat (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:The Boundary (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:The Breeze in the Boughs (Jennifer Marie Brissett)
- Short Story:The Carpenter and the Beast of Teeth (Micah Dean Hicks)
- Short Story:The Court Magician (Sarah Pinsker)
- Short Story:The Covering Storm (David H. Ingram)
- Short Story:The Crabapple Tree (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Culvert (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Day It All Ended (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:The Daydreamer by Proxy (Dexter Palmer)
- Short Story:The Dog's Home (Alison Littlewood)
- Short Story:The Dog's Paw (Derek Künsken)
- Short Story:The Emerald Coat and Other Wishes (Emily B. Cataneo)
- Short Story:The Empties (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Empyrean Light (Gregory Norman Bossert)
- Short Story:The Good Earth Grocery (Richard Dokey)
- Short Story:The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:The Houses that Are Left Behind (Brenda Walker)
- Short Story:The Incursus, by Asimov-NN71 (Gord Sellar)
- Short Story:The Invention of Separate People (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:The Jaws of Ouroboros (Steve Toase)
- Short Story:The Kick the Bucket Tour (Jo Perry)
- Short Story:The Last Cheng Beng Gift (Jaymee Goh)
- Short Story:The Last Hurricane (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Laws of Motion (Caitlin Fitzpatrick)
- Short Story:The Lonely Sea in the Sky (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Luckiest Man in the World (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The Maldives (Achy Obejas)
- Short Story:The Man I Could Be (Brenda Peynado)
- Short Story:The Mexican (George McCormick)
- Short Story:The Mountain Top (Georgia Ruth)
- Short Story:The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The One They Took Before (Kelly Sandoval)
- Short Story:The Ones Who Stay and Fight (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Past, Of Course (Nikki Vogel)
- Short Story:The Psychology Game (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:The Red Thread (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Return (Debbie Urbanski)
- Short Story:The Right Place to Start a Family (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:The river (adrienne maree brown)
- Short Story:The Saint of the Sidewalks (Kat Howard)
- Short Story:The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:The Sower (Takim Williams)
- Short Story:The Starship and the Temple Cat (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Storyteller’s Replacement (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:The Tallest Doll in New York City (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:The Third Panel (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:The Token Superhero (David F. Walker)
- Short Story:The Twilight Pariah (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:The Visitation (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Witch of Chelsea (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Hill (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Wrecker (Ernest Finney)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Wretched and the Beautiful (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:These Deathless Bones (Cassandra Khaw)
- Short Story:They Told Us Not to Say This (Jenn Alandy Trahan)
- Short Story:This is as I Wish to be Restored (Christie Yant)
- Short Story:Three Speeches About Billy Granger (Jake Kerr)
- Short Story:Tierra y Libertad (Madeline Ashby)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Trash (Todd Robinson)
- Short Story:Unearth (Alicia Elliott)
- Short Story:Voices (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:We Are Turning on a Spindle (Joanna Parypinski)
- Short Story:We Keep Them Anyway (Stephanie A. Vega)
