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- Short Story:--30-- (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:0wnz0red (Cory Doctorow)
- Short Story:A 'Poor Aunt' Story (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Bridge Under Water (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
- Short Story:A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (David Gates)
- Short Story:A House on the Plains (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:A Man Looking for Trouble (Lee Martin)
- Short Story:A Memory of Wind (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:A New Gravestone for an Old Grave (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:A Princeton Idyll (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:A Rich Man (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:A Spoiled Man (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- Short Story:A Terror (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:Abingdon Square (André Aciman)
- Short Story:Admiral (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town (Ha Jin)
- Short Story:Afterlife of a Stolen Child (Janette Turner Hospital)
- Short Story:Amundsen (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen (Graham Joyce)
- Short Story:And We Will Be Here (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Anda's Game (Cory Doctorow)
- Short Story:Artie Gottlieb, Consulting Philosopher (Stephen Schottenfeld)
- Short Story:At Life's Limits (Kiini Ibura Salaam)
- Short Story:At Night, When the Demons Come (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Baby Wilson (E. L. Doctorow)
- Short Story:Bad Neighbors (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:Bajazzle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Balto (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Bed Death (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:Benjamin's Freedom Magic (Ronald T. Jones)
- Short Story:Big Bend (Bill Roorbach)
- Short Story:Big Me (Dan Chaon)
- Short Story:Black and White Sky (Tanith Lee)
- Short Story:Black Box (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Black No More (excerpt from the novel) (George S. Schuyler)
- Short Story:Blackwood's Baby (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:Blood Wedding (Robert Reed)
- Short Story:Blue (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:Breasts (Stuart Dybek)
- Short Story:Buying and Selling (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Bye-bye Natalia (Michel Faber)
- Short Story:Chance (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Charity (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Chicago 1927 (Jewelle Gomez)
- Short Story:Child's Play (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Closely Held (Allegra Goodman)
- Short Story:Collateral (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:Compassion (Dorothy Allison)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Conservation Laws (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Cowboy Tango (Maggie Shipstead)
- Short Story:Crossing (Andre Kocsis)
- Short Story:Death Defier (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:Delicate Edible Birds (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Departures (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Dimension (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Dog on a Cow (Gina Paoli)
- Short Story:Each Thing I Show You Is A Piece Of My Death (Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer)
- Short Story:Embarazada (Andrew Foster Altschul)
- Short Story:Esmeralda (Glen Hirshberg)
- Short Story:Face (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Family Furnishings (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fiction (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Findings & Impressions (Stellar Kim)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:Firefly (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Floating Bridge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Fools (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Frontier Death Song (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:Further Interpretations of Real Life Events (Kevin Moffett)
- Short Story:Ghost Knife (Sharon Pomerantz)
- Short Story:Gimmile's Songs (Charles R. Saunders)
- Short Story:Going Too Far (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Good Old Neon (David Foster Wallace)
- Short Story:Gunpowder Alley (Bill Pronzini)
- Short Story:Hart and Boot (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Horseman (Richard Russo)
- Short Story:How Frank Died (Paul Christensen)
- Short Story:Hurricanes Anonymous (Adam Johnson)
- Short Story:I Can See Right Through You (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:Icebergs (Alistair Morgan)
- Short Story:If Angels Fight (Richard Bowes)
- Short Story:Infinities (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:Into Silence (Marlin Barton)
- Short Story:Jon (George Saunders)
- Short Story:L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Lake Natasink (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Lesser Demons (Norman Partridge)
- Short Story:Liking What You See: A Documentary (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:Limestone Diner (Trudy Lewis)
- Short Story:Local Knowledge (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- Short Story:Long Tom Lookout (Nicole Cullen)
- Short Story:Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice (Nam Le)
- Short Story:Lowland Sea (Suzy McKee Charnas)
- Short Story:Man and Wife (Katie Chase)
- Short Story:Man-Eating Cats (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Many Dogs Have Died Here (James Mathews)
- Short Story:Mariner's Round (Terry Dowling)
- Short Story:Monsieur Le Genius (Paul Eggers)
- Short Story:Mudlavia (Elizabeth Stuckey-French)
- Short Story:My Brother Eli (Joseph Epstein)
- Short Story:My Mother's Garden (Katherine Shonk)
- Short Story:Natasha (David Bezmozgis)
- Short Story:Never Come Back (Elizabeth Tallent)
- Short Story:Next to Nothing (Stephen O'Connor)
- Short Story:Night Train to Frankfurt (Marisa Silver)
- Short Story:Nigredo (Cody Goodfellow)
- Short Story:North (Aria Beth Sloss)
- Short Story:Occupational Hazard (Angela Pneuman)
- Short Story:Old Boys, Old Girls (Edward P. Jones)
- Short Story:Omphalos (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:Once A Spider (McFarland Kyle)
- Short Story:Once in a Lifetime (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Short Story:Outside Heavenly (Rio Youers)
- Short Story:Pa's Darling (Louis Auchincloss)
- Short Story:Painted Ship, Painted Ocean (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Passion (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Pastoralia (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Penguins of the Apocalypse (William Browning Spencer)
- Short Story:Pilgrim Life (Taylor Antrim)
- Short Story:Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia (Rachel Swirsky)
- Short Story:Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Post and Beam, Post and Beam (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Prison (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:Proposition 23 (Eke Okogu)
- Short Story:Puppy (Richard Ford)
- Short Story:Raw Water (Wells Tower)
- Short Story:Revival Road (Louise Erdrich)
- Short Story:Roots and All (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:Rug Weaver (Barbara Klein Moss)
- Short Story:Runaway (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Sans Farine (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Screenwriter (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:Sh'khol (Colum McCann)
- Short Story:Sheep May Safely Graze (Jess Row)
- Short Story:Sightings (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:Silence (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Skullpocket (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:So Much for Artemis (Patrick Ryan)
- Short Story:So Near Any Time Always (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:Some Other, Better Otto (Deborah Eisenberg)
- Short Story:Something You Can't Live Without (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:Stab (Chris Adrian)
- Short Story:Staircase to the Moon (Theresa E. Lehr)
- Short Story:Stone Animals (Kelly Link)
- Short Story:Tasting Songs (Leone Ross)
- Short Story:Tell Me My Name (Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum)
- Short Story:Tenth of December (George Saunders)
- Short Story:That Last Odd Day in L.A. (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman (Jeffery Deaver)
- Short Story:The Atlas of Hell (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (Peter Straub)
- Short Story:The Barber's Unhappiness (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Boy in Zaquitos (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:The Bridge Partner (Peter S. Beagle)
- Short Story:The Bris (Eileen Pollack)
- Short Story:The Bullock Run (Roger McDonald)
- Short Story:The Call of Blood (Jess Row)
- Short Story:The Casual Car Pool (Katherine Bell)
- Short Story:The Clay Party (Steve Duffy)
- Short Story:The Coat off His Back (Keris McDonald)
- Short Story:The Comet (W. E. B. Du Bois)
- Short Story:The Crying Child (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:The Devil in America (Kai Ashante Wilson)
- Short Story:The Devil to Pay (David Edgerley Gates)
- Short Story:The Dog (Jack Livings)
- Short Story:The Ease of Living (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:The End of the End of Everything (Dale Bailey)
- Short Story:The Fear (Richard Harland)
- Short Story:The Fool's Proxy (J. Robert Lennon)
- Short Story:The Fugue (Arna Bontemps Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Gap Year (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:The Good Husband (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis (Karen Russell)
- Short Story:The Hanging Fruit (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:The Heifer (Melissa Hardy)
- Short Story:The Home at Craigmillnar (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The House on Ashley Avenue (Ian Rogers)
- Short Story:The Husband Stitch (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:The Indian (Randall Silvis)
- Short Story:The Lagerstätte (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:The Lammas Worm (Nina Allan)
- Short Story:The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Denis Johnson)
- Short Story:The Lion Hunters (Josh Reynolds)
- Short Story:The Litany of Earth (Ruthana Emrys)
- Short Story:The Lover (Damon Galgut)
- Short Story:The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Ted Chiang)
- Short Story:The Only Ending We Have (Kim Newman)
- Short Story:The Path of The Ironclad Bison (Penelope Flynn)
- Short Story:The Provincials (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:The Rare Earth (Biram Mboob)
- Short Story:The Refuge (Kochava Greene)
- Short Story:The Same Deep Waters as You (Brian Hodge)
- Short Story:The Scheme of Things (Charles D'Ambrosio)
- Short Story:The Semplica-Girl Diaries (George Saunders)
- Short Story:The Sharp Knife of a Short Life (Hannibal Tabu)
- Short Story:The Shell Collector (Anthony Doerr)
- Short Story:The Smile on Happy Chang's Face (Tom Perrotta)
- Short Story:The Snow Angel (Doug Allyn)
- Short Story:The Soul in the Bell Jar (K.J. Kabza)
- Short Story:The Soul in the Bell Jar (KJ Kabza)
- Short Story:The Space Traders (Derrick Bell)
- Short Story:The Street Ends at the Cemetery (Clark Howard)
- Short Story:The Thing in the Forest (A. S. Byatt)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Nina Allan)
- Short Story:The Tunnel at the End of the Light (Geoffrey Thorne)
- Short Story:The Tutor (Nell Freudenberger)
- Short Story:The View from Castle Rock (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:The Wizard of West Orange (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:The Woman in the Wall (Steven Barnes)
- Short Story:The World to Come (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:The Year I Learned Everything (Roxane Gay)
- Short Story:Them Old Cowboy Songs (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Thunderstruck (Elizabeth McCracken)
- Short Story:Tiger (Nalini Jones)
- Short Story:Tits-Up in a Ditch (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:Toga Party (John Barth)
- Short Story:Tony Takitani (Haruki Murakami)
- Short Story:Tooth and Claw (T. Coraghessan Boyle)
- Short Story:Tooth and Claw (T.C. Boyle)
- Short Story:Trafalgar (Charles Todd)
- Short Story:Train (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Two Opinions (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Unsafe at Any Speed (Laura Lee Smith)
- Short Story:Vilcabamba (Harry Turtledove)
- Short Story:Village 113 (Anthony Doerr)
- Short Story:Wake (Beverly Jensen)
- Short Story:Watermelon Days (Tom McNeal)
- Short Story:Wenlock Edge (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick? (Annie Proulx)
- Short Story:What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence (John Edgar Wideman)
- Short Story:What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Nathan Englander)
- Short Story:Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down (Ryan Harty)
- Short Story:Wild Acre (Nathan Ballingrud)
- Short Story:Wildwood (Junot Díaz)
- Short Story:Without Ellie (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Wolves (Susan Fromberg Schaeffer)
- Short Story:Yellow Card Man (Paolo Bacigalupi)

