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- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:A Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife (Scott Grand)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Fine Specimen (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- Short Story:A Shadow Table (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
- Short Story:A Will of Iron (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Aida (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Al Roosten (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All Ahead Of Them (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Allochton (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:An East Egg Update (George Bradley)
- Short Story:An Inch and a Half of Glory (Dashiell Hammett)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Antarctica (Laura van den Berg)
- Short Story:Apports (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Awaiting Orders (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Aye, and Gomorrah (Samuel R. Delany)
- Short Story:Bible (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Brad carrigan, american (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Bullet Number Two (Hannah Tinti)
- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:Buying Lenin (Miroslav Penkov)
- Short Story:Call Out (Stephen Toase)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)
- Short Story:Christmas (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Dangerous (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Dead Song (Jay Wilburn)
- Short Story:Dermot (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:Diary of an Interesting Year (Helen Simpson)
- Short Story:Diem Perdidi (Julie Otsuka)
- Short Story:Do Something (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dominion (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:Dress Circle (Miranda Siemienowicz)
- Short Story:Dues (Dale Peck)
- Short Story:Echo (Elizabeth Hand)
- Short Story:Eight Episodes (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Eyewall (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Festered Wounds (Nancy Pauline Simpson)
- Short Story:Final Exam (Megan Arkenberg)
- Short Story:Final Girl Theory (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Foster (Claire Keegan)
- Short Story:Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes (Tom Crosshill)
- Short Story:Free Fruit for Young Widows (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:Galveston Bay, 1826 (Eddie Chuculate)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Girl in Pieces (Graham Edwards)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:Going Across Jordan (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Gospodar (Garth Greenwell)
- Short Story:Grandmother's Nose (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:Greedy Choke Puppy (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Halfway Home (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
- Short Story:Hostage (Mark Wisniewski)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps (A. Merc Rustad)
- Short Story:How to Make Flan (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:I Will Follow You (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:In persuasion nation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:In the Porches of My Ears (Norman Prentiss)
- Short Story:Into the Gorge (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:It Washed Up (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:Jackalope Wives (Ursula Vernon)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Kattekoppen (Will Mackin)
- Short Story:Kill All Monsters (Gary McMahon)
- Short Story:Kin (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Last Contact (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:Life-pod (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Like Daughter (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Lonegan's Luck (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Lotophagi (Edward Morris)
- Short Story:M & L (Sarah Kokernot)
- Short Story:M&M World (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Madame Lazarus (Maile Meloy)
- Short Story:Makeisha in Time (Racheal K. Jones)
- Short Story:Making Good (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Marla (Jerome Charyn)
- Short Story:Marta (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Mayfly (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Meat and Mouth (Hugh Sheehy)
- Short Story:Men in Black (P. Djèlí Clark)
- Short Story:Movement (Nancy Fulda)
- Short Story:Moving On (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Mr. Pigsny (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mr. Splitfoot (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:Mrs. Midnight (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Muñeca (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:My Heart is Either Broken (Megan Abbott)
- Short Story:Nanny Grey (Gemma Files)
- Short Story:Nausea 1979 (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Navigators (Mike Meginnis)
- Short Story:New Mzansi (Ashley Jacobs)
- Short Story:New York Mining Disaster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Nightblooming (Kenneth Calhoun)
- Short Story:Nikishi (Lucy Taylor)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Nothing Living Lives Alone (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:Now We Will Be Happy (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Ogres of East Africa (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:On Western Winds (Carole McDonnell)
- Short Story:Only Son (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Palabras (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Pan Is Dead (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Paramour (Jennifer Haigh)
- Short Story:Paranoia (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:Pay Phobetor (Shale Nelson)
- Short Story:Persistence of Vision (Orrin Grey)
- Short Story:Pétur (Olivia Clare)
- Short Story:Planet X (S. A. Partridge)
- Short Story:Pleasant Grove (Scott Loring Sanders)
- Short Story:Plink (Kurt Dinan)
- Short Story:Psychological Impact (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Puppy (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Quarry (Micah Nathan)
- Short Story:Raw Edge (Alice Mattison)
- Short Story:Republica and Grau (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Riding the Doghouse (Randy DeVita)
- Short Story:Rosalee Carrasco (Tomiko M. Breland)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Short Story:Sagittarius (Greg Hrbek)
- Short Story:Sault Ste. Marie (David Means)
- 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:Shay Corsham Worsted (Garth Nix)
- Short Story:Singing My Sister Down (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Sleeper (Jo Walton)
- Short Story:Snow Blind (Elizabeth Strout)
- Short Story:Soldier of Fortune (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Stemming the Tide (Simon Strantzas)
- Short Story:Talk (Stephen Dixon)
- Short Story:Tender as Teeth (Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski)
- Short Story:The Anatomist's Mnemonic (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Angel of the Tenderloin (James Redwood)
- Short Story:The Anniversary Trip (Victoria Lancelotta)
- Short Story:The Ascent (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:The Authenticator (Greg van Eekhout)
- Short Story:The Big Cat (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:The Blood Drip (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Short Story:The Bride of Frankenstein (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The Briefcase (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:The Broad Estates of Death (Paula Fox)
- Short Story:The Callers (Ramsey Campbell)
- Short Story:The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees (E. Lily U)
- Short Story:The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees (E. Lily Yu)
- Short Story:The Chair (David Means)
- Short Story:The Contemporary Foxwife (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Culvert (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Day It All Ended (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:The Days of the Flaming Motorcycles (Catherynne M. Valente)
- Short Story:The Dog's Home (Alison Littlewood)
- Short Story:The Dog's Paw (Derek Künsken)
- Short Story:The Empties (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The End of Everything (Steve Eller)
- Short Story:The Farms (Eleanor Henderson)
- Short Story:The Folding Man (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:The Fragments (Joshua Ferris)
- Short Story:The Goophered Grapevine (Charles W. Chestnut)
- Short Story:The Hit (Tom Andes)
- Short Story:The Hodag (Trent Hergenrader)
- Short Story:The House Beyond Your Sky (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:The Ice Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The King of Sentences (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Lonely Sea in the Sky (Amal El-Mohtar)
- Short Story:The Lost Order (Rivka Galchen)
- Short Story:The Magician's Apprentice (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Moment (Lawrence M. Schoen)
- Short Story:The Narrows (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The Necessity of Certain Behaviors (Shannon Cain)
- Short Story:The Nimble Men (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:The One They Took Before (Kelly Sandoval)
- Short Story:The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The Past, Of Course (Nikki Vogel)
- Short Story:The red bow (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Rising River (Daniel Kaysen)
- Short Story:The Room (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Saint of the Sidewalks (Kat Howard)
- Short Story:The Show (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:The Silence of Thelonious Monk (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Sleep (Caitlin Horrocks)
- Short Story:The Switch (Excerpt from The Switch II: Clockwork) (Valjeanne Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Third Dumpster (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Tin House (Simon Clark)
- Short Story:The Train (Gale Renee Walden)
- Short Story:The Visitor (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:The Wilderness (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Tideline (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Till the Morning Comes (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:To the Measures Fall (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Toast (Kim Adrian)
- Short Story:Tomatoes and the Full Moon (Yoko Ogawa)
- Short Story:Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Totaled (Kary English)
- Short Story:Tough Night in Tommyville (Melvin Carter)
- Short Story:Transfiguration (Richard Christian Matheson)
- Short Story:Trip Trap (Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kevin J. Anderson)
- Short Story:Unction (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Very Low-Flying Aircraft (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:Voices (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Wake-Rider (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Was She Wicked? Was She Good? (M. Rickert)
- Short Story:Water and Oil (Michael Knight)
- Short Story:West of the Known (Chanelle Benz)
- Short Story:Wet with Rain (Lee Child)
- Short Story:When the Gentlemen Go By (Margaret Ronald)
- Short Story:Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? (Ken MacLeod)
- Short Story:Yearn (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:You Become the Neighborhood (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:Zusya on the Roof (Nicole Krauss)
