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- Short Story:A Birthday (Esther Friesner)
- Short Story:A Birthday Present (Anne Sayre)
- Short Story:A Blade of Grass (Edita Morris)
- Short Story:A Boy and His Dog (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:A Brief and Hideous Scrawl (Erin Brown)
- Short Story:A Castle in Outer Space (Cynthia Weiner)
- Short Story:A Christmas Carillon (Hortense Calisher)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Chronicle of Love copy (H.E. Francis)
- Short Story:A Circle In The Fire (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:A Courtship (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Day on Ragged (Donald Hall)
- Short Story:A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed (Jason Brown)
- Short Story:A Friend of Napoleon (Richard Connell)
- Short Story:A Gift from the GrayLanders (Michael Bishop)
- Short Story:A Glance in the Mirror (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:A Good Home (Karin Lowachee)
- Short Story:A Guilty Woman (Glenway Wescott)
- Short Story:A History of China (Carolyn Ferrell)
- Short Story:A Hotel in Germany (Catriona Ward)
- Short Story:A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville (Kyle Minor)
- Short Story:A Kind of Simple Happy Grace (Richard Bausch)
- Short Story:A Kiss with Teeth (Max Gladstone)
- Short Story:A Lingering Death (Silvia Tennenbaum)
- Short Story:A Logic Named Joe (Murray Leinster)
- Short Story:A Lonely Coast (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:A Long Day's Dying (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:A Love Story (Samantha Hunt)
- Short Story:A Man Like Him (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Mother's Tale (James Agee)
- Short Story:A Name for the City (William Faulkner)
- Short Story:A Righteous Man (Tochi Onyebuchi)
- Short Story:A Scarab for Normandy (Gerald Elias)
- Short Story:A Ship to Tarshish (William Zukerman)
- Short Story:A Simple Act of Piety (Achmed Abdullah)
- Short Story:A Slow Boat to China (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Sound in the Night (Ruth Herschberger)
- Short Story:A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:A Summer Day (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:A Summer’s Long Dream (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:A Tooth for Paul Revere (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:A Voice in the Night (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:A Walk in the Sun (Geoffrey A. Landis)
- Short Story:A War Marriage (Donna Rowell)
- Short Story:About My Aunt (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:About You Now (Elisa Ludwig)
- Short Story:Accomplice (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:Accomplished Desires (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Acme Rooms and Sweet Majorie Russell (Hugh Allyn Hunt)
- Short Story:Act of Faith (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:Afternoon Tea (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:All Around the Town (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:All Boy (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:All Prisoners Here (Irving Pfeffer)
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- Short Story:All Shall Love Me and Despair (Jean Thompson)
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- Short Story:All This Distant Beauty (Ryan David Jahn)
- Short Story:Allegiance (Aryn Kyle)
- Short Story:Allog, Allog (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Amberwood (Terri Brown-Davidson)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:An Account of the Land of Witches (Sofia Samatar)
- Short Story:An Amount of Discretion (Lauren Alwan)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:And Now His Lordship Is Laughing (Shiv Ramdas)
- Short Story:Angel (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Anyone Can Do It (Manuel Muñoz)
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- Short Story:Arcadia (Emma Cline)
- Short Story:Are We Not Men? (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:As Dark As Hunger (Qiouyi S. Lu)
- Short Story:As I Was Going Up the Stair (Alfred Chester)
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- Short Story:At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:At the Sign of the Three Daughters (Dorothy Canfield)
- Short Story:Attachment (David Borofka)
- Short Story:Audition (Saïd Sayrafiezadeh)
- Short Story:Aunt Moon's Young Man (Linda Hogan)
- Short Story:Auras (Elizabeth P. Glixman)
- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Babylon Revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Back Along the Old Track (Sam Hicks)
- Short Story:Bajazzle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Battling Against Castro (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Beatrice Trueblood's Story (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:Beautiful Girl (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:Beautiful Monsters (Eric Puchner)
- Short Story:Beautiful People (Lisa Taddeo)
- Short Story:Bech Takes Pot Luck (John Updike)
- Short Story:Beginning of Wisdom (Rachel Field)
- Short Story:Belshazzar's Letter (Katharine Fullerton Gerould)
- Short Story:Ben (Pati Hill)
- Short Story:Better You Believe (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Between Dry Ribs (Gregory Norman Bossert)
- Short Story:Beyond the Pale (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:Biceps (Nelson Algren)
- Short Story:Big Week (Zadie Smith)
- Short Story:Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Benjamin Rosenbaum)
- Short Story:Bird Song (John Mayo Goss)
- Short Story:Black Powder (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:Black Wolf (Walter D. Edmonds)
- Short Story:Blind Jozef Pronek (Aleksandar Hemon)
- Short Story:Blood Is Another Word for Hunger (Rivers Solomon)
- Short Story:Bloodchild (Octavia Butler)
- Short Story:Bloodchild (Octavia E. Butler)
- Short Story:Bloodflowers (W.D. Valgardson)
- Short Story:Blooms of Sorrow (Amanda Helms)
- Short Story:Blue Martini (Barbara Demarco-Barrett)
- Short Story:Blue Spruce (David Long)
- Short Story:Blueprints for St. Louis (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Bobby Jackson (Joan Silber)
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- Short Story:Boys Town (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:BREACHING THE DISTANCE (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Breatharians (Callan Wink)
- Short Story:Bride (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Bridesicle (Will McIntosh)
- Short Story:Brightside Crossing (Alan E. Nourse)
- Short Story:Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist (George P. Elliot)
- Short Story:Brownies (ZZ Packer)
- Short Story:Bumblebees (Bobbie Ann Mason)
- Short Story:Burn the Ships (Alberto Yáñez)
- Short Story:Burning Down the House (Ted White)
- Short Story:Bury Your Own Dead (Bessie Breuer)
- Short Story:Buster (Katharine Holland Brown)
- Short Story:Butterflies (Rose Sidney)
- Short Story:Cabin Fever (David Edgerley Gates)
- Short Story:Cambridge is Sinking (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Cambridge Is Sinking! (John J. Clayton)
- Short Story:Campoamor (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Can You Feel This? (Julie Orringer)
- Short Story:Can't Cross Jordan by Myself (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- Short Story:Captive Girl (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Captive Market (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:Carnival Nine (Caroline M. Yoachim)
- Short Story:Carrion Spring (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (Nick Wolven)
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- Short Story:Cat Person (Kristen Roupenian)
- Short Story:Celtic Twilight (Joanna Ostrow)
- Short Story:Champlin (Morgan Burke)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Charity (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Charlotte (Tony Earley)
- Short Story:Chico (George Dickerson)
- Short Story:Child of All Ages (P. J. Plauger)
- Short Story:Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone (Terry Bramlett)
- Short Story:Christians (Tom Franklin)
- Short Story:Christmas Eve at the Exit (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- Short Story:Cimmeria, from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology (Theodora Goss)
- Short Story:City of Boys (Beth Nugent)
- Short Story:Clap Back (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Cleaver, Meat, and Block (Maria Haskins)
- Short Story:Clementine, Carmelita, Dog (David Means)
- Short Story:Click (Brian Evenson)
- Short Story:Cold Little Bird (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Colonial Conditions (Brandon Taylor)
- Short Story:Coming of Age in Karhide (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Short Story:Commcomm (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Communist (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Community Life (Lorrie Moore)
- Short Story:Commuter Marriage (Joan Wickersham)
- Short Story:Companion (Sana Krasikov)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Contact! (Frances Noyes Hart)
- Short Story:Containing Portals to Other Worlds (Erika T. Wurth)
- Short Story:Cookie Jar (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Corialis (T. L. Huchu)
- Short Story:Count the Clock that Tells the Time (Harlan Ellison)
- Short Story:Counterblast (Marjorie Celona)
- Short Story:Counterclockwise (Elisabeth Larsh Young)
- Short Story:Creature Features (John McNally)
- Short Story:Cry of the Kharchal (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Cyclists' Raid (Frank Rooney)
- Short Story:Daddy's Girl (T.N. Eyer)
- Short Story:Days of Heaven (Rick Bass)
- Short Story:De Vilmarte's Luck (Mary Heaton Vorse)
- Short Story:Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung Part 2 (Usman T. Malik)
- Short Story:Death of a Favorite (J. F. Powers)
- Short Story:Deep-Holes (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Delhi (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Diesel (Don Mitchell)
- Short Story:Dirty Words (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Dispatches from the Revolution (Pat Cadigan)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Do You Belong to Anybody? (Maya Binyam)
- Short Story:Doe Season (David Michael Kaplan)
- Short Story:Dog (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched (Steve Almond)
- Short Story:Dot Rat (K. McGee)
- Short Story:Down the American River (Rose Graubart Ignatow)
- Short Story:Dust (Patricia Griffith)
- Short Story:Each Thing I Show You Is A Piece Of My Death (Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer)
- Short Story:Each to Each (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Ebbets Field (Jay Neugeboren)
- Short Story:Edge of Doom (Warren Beck)
- Short Story:Eleanor's Music (Mary Gordon)
- Short Story:Embarazada (Andrew Foster Altschul)
- Short Story:Enlightenment (William Pei Shih)
- Short Story:Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
- Short Story:Escape from Spiderhead (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Escape to the City (Gordon Woodward)
- Short Story:Eutopia (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:Every Night for a Thousand Years (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Everything My Mother Taught Me (Alice Hoffman)
- Short Story:Exposure (Stephanie Friedman)
- Short Story:Fable (Ethan Rutherford)
- Short Story:Faithfull (Karuna Riazi)
- Short Story:Falling Off the Scaffold (Lyn Coffin)
- Short Story:Family in the Wind (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Short Story:Fanon (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Fantasy for Eleven Fingers (Ben Fountain)
- Short Story:Favor (Shimon Tanaka)
- Short Story:Fifth of July (Mary Taugher)
- Short Story:Final Verse (Chet Williamson)
- Short Story:Finding Natasha (Madison Smartt Bell)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:First Dark (Elizabeth Spencer)
- Short Story:Fitting Ends (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Fleur (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Flip Lady (Ladee Hubbard)
- Short Story:Fogbound in Avalon (Elizabeth McGrath)
- Short Story:For He Can Creep (Siobhan Carroll)
- Short Story:For the God of Love, for the Love of God (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:For Want of a Nail (Mary Robinette Kowal)
- Short Story:Fox and Swan (John L' Heureux)
- Short Story:Foxfire, Foxfire (Yoon Ha Lee)
- Short Story:Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury (Caroline Gordon)
- Short Story:Free Radicals (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- Short Story:Frenchman's Ship (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:Fresco, Byzantine (Natalie Bakopoulos)
- Short Story:Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:From a Farther Room (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled (Michael Swanwick)
- Short Story:Fru Holm (Ilona Karmel)
- Short Story:Funny Little Snake (Tessa Hadley)
- Short Story:Further Tales About Men and Women (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Galatea (Karen Brown)
- Short Story:Ganger (Ball Lightning) (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Garments (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Gay (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Getaway (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:Ghost Girls (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Ghost Knife (Sharon Pomerantz)
