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- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Delayed Hearing (Howard Nemerov)
- Short Story:A Red Coat For Night (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:A Russian Idyll (Frederic Prokosch)
- Short Story:A Sense of Danger (Mary Deasy)
- Short Story:A Short Walk Into Afternoon (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:A Small Room in Koboldtown (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Jai Chakrabarti)
- Short Story:A Sound of Thunder (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:A Visit to Frederik Ruysch's Cabinets (Diane Ackerman)
- Short Story:A Will of Iron (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Alix E. Harrow)
- Short Story:Adrenaline Junkies (Ray Cluley)
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- Short Story:All Things Come Around (William Soldan)
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- Short Story:Amethyst (Edwin Corle)
- Short Story:An East Egg Update (George Bradley)
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- Short Story:Beautiful, Helpless Animals (Nancy Chaikin)
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- Short Story:Bright And Morning (Glidden Parker)
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- Short Story:Brother's Keeper (Dave Zelsterman)
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- Short Story:Cannibal Acts (Maureen F. McHugh)
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- Short Story:Comforts (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Control Negro (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)
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- Short Story:Enter Daisy; To Her, Alexandra (Charles Cooke)
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- Short Story:Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in Cmin, Op. 66 (Carlos Hernandez)
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- Short Story:Fisherman's Luck (Emmett Gowen)
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- Short Story:Four Annas (Christine Weston)
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- Short Story:Frederick Douglass Elementary (Aya De Leon)
- Short Story:Friends (Grace Paley)
- Short Story:Fury (DB Waters)
- Short Story:Fyrewall (Stefani Cox)
- Short Story:Gender Studies (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- Short Story:Gentleman in Blue (Laurence Stallings)
- Short Story:Gesturing (John Updike)
- Short Story:Girl in Pieces (Graham Edwards)
- Short Story:Glory (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Glossolalia (David Jauss)
- Short Story:Good Hope (Enyeribe Ibegwam)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Graveyard Day (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Hard to Be Good (Bill Barich)
- Short Story:Heart Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Heath Crawler (Sam Hicks)
- Short Story:Helen O'Loy (Lester del Rey)
- Short Story:Hollow (Mia Mingus)
- Short Story:How Levon Dai Was Surrendered To The Edemuses (Marjorie Anaïs Housepian)
- Short Story:Hunger (Marjorie Worthington)
- Short Story:Hyperpilosity (L. Sprague de Camp)
- Short Story:I Say (I Say, I Say) (Robert Shearman)
- Short Story:I Want to Live! (Thom Jones)
- Short Story:If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood (W. D. Wetherell)
- Short Story:If You Say So (Suzanne Proulx)
- Short Story:Imagination (Gordon Hall Gerould)
- Short Story:In persuasion nation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:In the Porches of My Ears (Norman Prentiss)
- Short Story:In the Smile Place (Tobi Ogundiran)
- Short Story:Infinity Sky (Kristen Lepionka)
- Short Story:Inheritance (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:Is Laughter Contagious? (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:It's Not You (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Itsy Bitsy Spider (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:Jollof Rice and Revolutions (Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi)
- Short Story:Kindling (Raymond Carver)
- Short Story:Land of Promise (Brian Silverman)
- Short Story:Leaving Gotham City (Yaa Gyasi)
- Short Story:Let Nothing You Dismay (Allen McGinnis)
- Short Story:Let's Play Dead (Senaa Ahmad)
- Short Story:Life-pod (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Long Drive Home (Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
- Short Story:M & L (Sarah Kokernot)
- Short Story:M&M World (Kate Walbert)
- Short Story:Madame Lazarus (Maile Meloy)
- Short Story:Marine Corps Issue (David McLean)
- Short Story:Marla (Jerome Charyn)
- Short Story:Milk (Ron Carlson)
- Short Story:Miss Martin (Sheila Kohler)
- Short Story:Moving On (Diane Cook)
- Short Story:Mr Salary (Sally Rooney)
- Short Story:Mr. Can’aan (Isabella Hammad)
- Short Story:Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:New Mzansi (Ashley Jacobs)
- Short Story:New World (Akil Kumarasamy)
- Short Story:New York Mining Disaster (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Nightblooming (Kenneth Calhoun)
- Short Story:Noises in the City (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:North Is Black (Oliver La Farge, 2nd)
- Short Story:Nothing Living Lives Alone (Wendell Berry)
- Short Story:On the Mountain-Side (Elizabeth Madox Roberts)
- Short Story:One of You Must Be Wendell Corey (Philip L. Greene)
- Short Story:Our Children (Vanessa Cuti)
- Short Story:Pan Is Dead (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Paper Covers Rock (Jean Thompson)
- Short Story:Pat + Sam (Lisa Ko)
- Short Story:Pecos Bill (Moira Crone)
- Short Story:Pheasants Of Detroit (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Pity (Avner Mandelbaum)
- Short Story:Play Like I'm Sheriff (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:Ragman (Rebecca Lloyd)
- Short Story:Reginald Pomfret Skelton (Samuel Yellen)
- Short Story:River of Toys (Edward Allen)
- Short Story:Roses, Rhododendron (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Run, Run Away, Brother (John Campbell Smith)
- Short Story:Sault Ste. Marie (David Means)
- Short Story:Seasons (Ruth McLaughlin)
- Short Story:Secret Stream (Héctor Tobar)
- Short Story:Secrets (Deborah Seabrooke)
- Short Story:Senaa Ahmad—Let's Play Dead (Senaa Ahmad)
- Short Story:Sense of Direction (Leonard Casper)
- Short Story:Serenade (Whit Burnett)
- Short Story:Seven (Edwidge Danticat)
- Short Story:Shot: A New York Story (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:Silver Door Diner (Bishop Garrison)
- Short Story:Skin Angels (Jessica Neely)
- Short Story:Small Medicine (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:Snow (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Someday (James Patrick Kelly)
- Short Story:Speaking of Courage (Tim O'Brien)
- Short Story:Starlight (Marian Thurm)
- Short Story:Suns That Our Hearts Harden (Carlton Brown)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Swept Away (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Tea Time (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:That Greek Dog (MacKinlay Kantor)
- Short Story:The Apex Predator (William Dylan Powell)
- Short Story:The Beautiful Fire (I. V. Morris)
- Short Story:The Bees (Joan Vatsek)
- Short Story:The Blue Fairy's Manifesto (Annalee Newitz)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Contemporary Foxwife (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:The Crooked House (Jonathan Lethem)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Dollar in Italy (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Faithful (Lester del Rey)
- Short Story:The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk (James T. Farrell)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Fix (Percival Everett)
- Short Story:The Forgotten Songs Incident (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:The Foster Portfolio (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Manuel Komroff)
- Short Story:The Hemlock Tree (Vincent Sheean)
- Short Story:The Honey Pot (Charles Caldwell Dobie)
- Short Story:The Immortal Woman (Allen Tate)
- Short Story:The Last Exorcist (Danny Lore)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Lion's Den (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Little Black Boys (Clara Laidlaw)
- Short Story:The Magician's Apprentice (Tamsyn Muir)
- Short Story:The Metal Bowl (Miranda July)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Model House (William Hazlett Upson)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Oval Filter (Lamar Giles)
- Short Story:The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
- Short Story:The People on the Roller Coaster (Elizabeth Hardwick)
- Short Story:The Power of Language is Such That Even a Single Word Taken Truly to Heart Can Change Everything (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Promise (Ramona Stewart)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Shade Caller (DaVaun Sanders)
- Short Story:The Shame of Gold (Charles J. Finger)
- Short Story:The Silence (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:The Sleep (Caitlin Horrocks)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Spaniard (Prudencio de Pereda)
- Short Story:The Stupendous Fortune (Ruth Portugal)
- Short Story:The Sugar-Tit (Carolyn Cooke)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Switch (Excerpt from The Switch II: Clockwork) (Valjeanne Jeffers)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Visitor (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:The Walk with Elizanne (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Windmill Man (Tim McCarthy)
- Short Story:The Woman Who Thought Like a Man (Charles Newman)
- Short Story:The Wrists on the Door (Horace Fish)
- Short Story:This Isn't the Actual Sea (Corinna Vallianatos)
- Short Story:Tick-Tock (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:Tiffany Twisted (Ellen Hopkins)
- Short Story:Tillie Dinger (Dennis McFadden)
- Short Story:To the Measures Fall (Richard Powers)
- Short Story:Tony and the Beetles (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Transfiguration (Richard Christian Matheson)
- Short Story:Truth or Consequences (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Typical (Padgett Powell)
- Short Story:Uncharted Waters (Sally Hepworth)
- Short Story:Under the Ridge (Ernest Hemingway)
- Short Story:Unified Front (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Vulcanization (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:Wake-Rider (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:We Didn't (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:West of the Known (Chanelle Benz)
- Short Story:What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider (William Saroyan)
- Short Story:What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (Lesley Nneka Arimah)
- Short Story:Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed (Seymour Epstein)
- Short Story:Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? (Ken MacLeod)
- Short Story:With Footnotes and References (Gar Anthony Haywood)
- Short Story:Would You Know It Wasn't Love (Hester Kaplan)
- Short Story:Wound the Wind (George Zebrowski)
- Short Story:You Are Happy? (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:Yuna and the Wall (Lydia Kang)

