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- Short Story:1940: Fall (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Kij Johnson)
- Short Story:A Cabin on the Coast (Gene Wolfe)
- Short Story:A Girl with a Monkey (Leonard Michaels)
- Short Story:A Passion For History (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:A Postal Creed (Ben Brooks)
- Short Story:A Run of Bad Luck (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Shadow Table (Alice Fulton)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Across the Wide Missouri (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:An Open Letter to Doctor X (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (James Tiptree Jr.)
- Short Story:Angela (Bharati Mukherjee)
- Short Story:Appetites (Kathryn Chetkovich)
- Short Story:At The Anarchists' Convention (John Sayles)
- Short Story:Awaiting Orders (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Bad Company (Tess Gallagher)
- Short Story:Bakti's Hand (Blair Fuller)
- Short Story:Bambi Meets the Furies (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:Barbed Wire (Robert Canzoneri)
- Short Story:Basil From Her Garden (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:Beginnings (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Best Quality Glass Company, New York (Sharon Sheehe Stark)
- Short Story:Bible (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:Big Boy (Jesse Hill Ford)
- Short Story:Billy Goats (Jill McCorkle)
- Short Story:Bohemians (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Bones of the Inner Ear (Kiana Davenport)
- Short Story:Bow Down (Murad Kalam)
- Short Story:Brothers and Sisters Around the World (Andrea Lee)
- Short Story:Bruns (Norman Rush)
- Short Story:Buffalo Safety (David Wiegand)
- Short Story:Bulldog (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:Call If You Need Me (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Charades (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Charybdis (T. E. Holt)
- Short Story:Cherubs (Justine Dymond)
- Short Story:Chez Lambert (Jonathan Franzen)
- Short Story:Chiromancy (Max Garland)
- Short Story:Coins (Mona Simpson)
- Short Story:Coming to Terms (Eileen Gunn)
- Short Story:Cowboy (Thomas McGuane)
- Short Story:CV 10 (Starkey Flythe, Jr.)
- Short Story:Dabchick (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Damballah (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Décor (Murray Pomerance)
- Short Story:Desert Matinee (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:Diary of an Interesting Year (Helen Simpson)
- Short Story:Dietz at War (Ward Just)
- Short Story:Different Kinds of Darkness (David Langford)
- Short Story:Do Something (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Doc's Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Docent (R. T. Smith)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dog Stories (Francine Prose)
- Short Story:Dominion (Mark Slouka)
- Short Story:Dress Circle (Miranda Siemienowicz)
- Short Story:Drums Again (Edward M. Holmes)
- Short Story:Earthquake Damage (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Echo (Elizabeth Hand)
- Short Story:Eight Episodes (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Eight Pieces for the Left Hand (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:Embracing-The-New (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Emergency (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:Emperor of the Air (Ethan Canin)
- Short Story:Errand (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Everyday Use (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Five Signs of Disturbance (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Flights (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Flower Children (Maxine Swann)
- Short Story:Forever Overhead (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Galveston Bay, 1826 (Eddie Chuculate)
- Short Story:Gare du Nord (Suketu Mehta)
- Short Story:His Women (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Home (James Robison)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:Ice (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:In the Kindergarten (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:In the Pit (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:In the Porches of My Ears (Norman Prentiss)
- Short Story:In The Red Room (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Intimacy (Ralph Maloney)
- Short Story:Into the Gorge (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Isn't Today the Day? (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:It Washed Up (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:Jesus Out to Sea (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:John Henry's Home (John McCluskey)
- Short Story:K.590 (Nicholson Baker)
- Short Story:Kavita Through Glass (Emily Ishem Raboteau)
- Short Story:Kin (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Labors of the Heart (Claire Davis)
- Short Story:Lamb Says (Rosanne Coggeshall)
- Short Story:Last Contact (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:Lena (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:Lonegan's Luck (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Looking Into Nothing (Kent Nelson)
- Short Story:Lotophagi (Edward Morris)
- Short Story:Lullaby (Leslie Silko)
- Short Story:Making Good (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Marie-Ange's Ginen (Marilene Phipps)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Melungeons (Chris Offutt)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Mines (Susan Straight)
- Short Story:Miracle Boy (Pinckney Benedict)
- Short Story:Morrison's Reaction (Stephen Kirk)
- Short Story:Mothers (Sylvia Plath)
- Short Story:Mr. Pigsny (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:Mrs. Midnight (Reggie Oliver)
- Short Story:My Baby..., My Baby... (Dorothy West)
- Short Story:Naked Ladies (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Negatives (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Nilda (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Nixon under the Bodhi Tree (Gerald Reilly)
- Short Story:Non-Zero Probabilities (N.K. Jemisin)
- Short Story:Ocrakoke Island (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:Ordinary (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Other People's Deaths (Lore Segal)
- Short Story:Paper Losses (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Paths Unto the Dead (Mary Clearman)
- Short Story:Personal Archeology (John Updike)
- Short Story:Pet Fly, Pet Fly (Walter Mosley)
- Short Story:Photographs (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:Playing with Dynamite (John Updike)
- Short Story:Psychological Impact (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Puppy (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Ragazzi (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Rashad (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Raven's Wing (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Relief (Peter Ho Davies)
- Short Story:Republica and Grau (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Riding the Doghouse (Randy DeVita)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Rogue Tomato (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:Rubiaux Rising (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Short Story:Saboteur (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Satan: Hijacker of a Planet (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Separating (John Updike)
- Short Story:Shamengwa (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Shirt Talk (Ivan Prashker)
- Short Story:Silent Passengers (Larry Woiwode)
- Short Story:Silkie (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Silver Water (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:Singing My Sister Down (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:Snares (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Soldier of Fortune (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Space (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Short Story:Spaceships (Michael A. Burstein)
- Short Story:Still Life (Marjorie Sandor)
- Short Story:Surfiction (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Tarzan Meets the Department Head (Price Caldwell)
- Short Story:The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The 5:22, The 5:22 (George Harrar)
- Short Story:The a First Clean Fact (Larry Heinemann)
- Short Story:The American Embassy (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:The American Sickness (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Ascent (Ron Rash)
- Short Story:The Blue Men (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Bride of Frankenstein (Mike Resnick)
- Short Story:The Briefcase (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:The Broken Wings (Konstantinos Lardas)
- Short Story:The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:The Children's Wing (Joyce Johnson)
- Short Story:The Cure (Mary Ward Brown)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Days of the Flaming Motorcycles (Catherynne M. Valente)
- Short Story:The Deacon (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Dogs in Renoir's Garden (Gloria Whelan)
- Short Story:The End of Everything (Steve Eller)
- Short Story:The End of the World as We Know It (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Eve of the Spirit Festival (Lan Samantha Chang)
- Short Story:The Falls (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Farms (Eleanor Henderson)
- Short Story:The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Lee K. Abbott)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Flowers of Boredom (Rick DeMarinis)
- Short Story:The Folding Man (Joe R. Lansdale)
- Short Story:The Ghost Pit (Stephen Baxter)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Was No Kin to the Marshalls (Anne Hobson Freeman)
- Short Story:The Girls (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:The Golden Darters (Elizabeth Winthrop)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hodag (Trent Hergenrader)
- Short Story:The House Beyond Your Sky (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:The House Plans (Lydia Davis)
- Short Story:The Ice Man (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story (Daniel Stern)
- Short Story:The Island of Ven (Gina Berriault)
- Short Story:The Janeites (James Lott)
- Short Story:The Kangaroo Communique (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The King of Sentences (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Last Lovely City (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Moment (Lawrence M. Schoen)
- Short Story:The Mourning Door (Elizabeth Graver)
- Short Story:The Narrows (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nimble Men (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:The Ponoes (Peter Meinke)
- Short Story:The red bow (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Rising River (Daniel Kaysen)
- Short Story:The Room (William Trevor)
- Short Story:The Secret Goldfish (David Means)
- Short Story:The Separation (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Silence of Thelonious Monk (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:The Story (Amy Bloom)
- Short Story:The Train (Gale Renee Walden)
- Short Story:The Trip Back (Robert Olen Butler)
- Short Story:The Trip to Halawa Valley (Lynn Sharon Schwartz)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Twa Corbies (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Unclouded Day (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:The Walk with Elizanne (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Water-Faucet Vision (Gish Jen)
- Short Story:The Watermelon Story (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:Thorofare (Susan Minot)
- Short Story:THREE TALES FROM SKY RIVER: MYTHS FOR A STARFARING AGE (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Tideline (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Till the Morning Comes (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:To See You Again (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Trip in a Summer Dress (Annette Sanford)
- Short Story:Two Words (Molly Giles)
- Short Story:Tyranny (Lyll Becerra De Jenkins)
- Short Story:Unction (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Valaida (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Very Low-Flying Aircraft (Nicholas Royle)
- Short Story:Via Negativa (James Salter)
- Short Story:Victoria (Hilding Johnson)
- Short Story:VRM-547 (W. R. Thompson)
- Short Story:Waiting for Astronauts (Nancy Chaikin)
- Short Story:Waiting for Trains (Richard Currey)
- Short Story:Walking, Walking (Starkey Flythe)
- Short Story:Was She Wicked? Was She Good? (M. Rickert)
- Short Story:We Didn't (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:What Men Love For (Dale Ray Phillips)
- Short Story:What the Thunder Said (Janet Peery)
- Short Story:When It's Time to Go (John Edgar Wideman)
