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- Short Story:--30-- (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:22XX: One-Shot (Jelani Wilson)
- Short Story:A Birth in the Woods (Kevin Wilson)
- Short Story:A Bottle of Scotch and a Sharp Buck Knife (Scott Grand)
- Short Story:A Bridge Under Water (Tom Bissell)
- Short Story:A Death (Stephen King)
- Short Story:A Dweller in Amenty (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:A Fine Mist of Blood (Michael Connelly)
- Short Story:A Fine Specimen (Lisa Allen-Agostini)
- Short Story:A Good Marriage (Ed Kurtz)
- 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 Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (Xia Jia)
- Short Story:A Kidnapping in Koulèv-Ville (Kyle Minor)
- Short Story:A Life of Adventure and Delight (Akhil Sharma)
- Short Story:A Little Customer Service (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:A Man Looking for Trouble (Lee Martin)
- Short Story:A Natural History of Autumn (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A Sheltered Woman (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Small Sacrifice (Yiyun Li)
- Short Story:A Terror (Jeffrey Ford)
- Short Story:A Time to Mourn (Eve Fisher)
- Short Story:A Voice in the Night (Steven Millhauser)
- Short Story:A Will of Iron (Ray Dean)
- Short Story:A Wish, Like a Candle, Burns (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Abingdon Square (André Aciman)
- Short Story:About My Aunt (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Acres of Perhaps (Will Ludwigsen)
- Short Story:Afterlife (Stephen King)
- Short Story:Afterlife of a Stolen Child (Janette Turner Hospital)
- Short Story:Aftermath (LeVar Burton)
- Short Story:Afternoon Tea (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Aguanile (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Aida (Patricia Engel)
- Short Story:Al Roosten (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Alan at the Kirschbergs' (Anna Solomon)
- Short Story:Alan Bean Plus Four (Tom Hanks)
- Short Story:Alive (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Alive, Alive Oh (Sylvia Spruck Wrigley)
- Short Story:All Ahead Of Them (Tobias Wolff)
- Short Story:All the Day You'll Have Good Luck (Kate Jonez)
- Short Story:Allochton (Livia Llewellyn)
- Short Story:Almost Like Christmas (Joseph Heller)
- Short Story:Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Amundsen (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:An East Egg Update (George Bradley)
- Short Story:An Honest Woman (Ottessa Moshfegh)
- Short Story:An Inch and a Half of Glory (Dashiell Hammett)
- Short Story:And the Winners Will Be Swept Out To Sea (Maria Dahvana Headley)
- Short Story:And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead (Brooke Bolander)
- Short Story:Anecdotes (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:Antarctica (Laura van den Berg)
- Short Story:Anything Helps (Jess Walter)
- Short Story:Aphrodisiac (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
- Short Story:Apocrypha (Richard Lange)
- Short Story:Apollo (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Apports (Stephen Bacon)
- Short Story:Ark of Bones (Henry Dumas)
- Short Story:Arvies (Adam-Troy Castro)
- Short Story:As Good as New (Charlie Jane Anders)
- Short Story:Asymmetrical Warfare (S. R. Algernon)
- Short Story:At Life's Limits (Kiini Ibura Salaam)
- Short Story:At Night, When the Demons Come (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:At the Huts of Ajala (Nisi Shawl)
- Short Story:At the Riding School (Cody Goodfellow)
- Short Story:At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Axis (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Aye, and Gomorrah (Samuel R. Delany)
- Short Story:Azania (Cristy Zinn)
- Short Story:Ba Baboon (Thomas Pierce)
- Short Story:Back the Way You Went (Anne Carson)
- Short Story:Bajazzle (Margo Lanagan)
- Short Story:Base Life (George Makana Clark)
- Short Story:Beautiful Monsters (Eric Puchner)
- Short Story:Bed Death (Lori Ostlund)
- Short Story:Benjamin's Freedom Magic (Ronald T. Jones)
- Short Story:Better (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Between the Pilings (Steve Rasnic Tem)
- Short Story:Black and White Sky (Tanith Lee)
- Short Story:Black Angel (Walidah Imarisha)
- Short Story:Black Box (Jennifer Egan)
- Short Story:Black Dog (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Black Feathers (Alison Littlewood)
- 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:Bodega (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Bones of Crow (Ray Cluley)
- Short Story:Boogieman (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Border Crossing (Susan Thornton)
- Short Story:Bound (Maurine Dallas Watkins)
- Short Story:Boys Town (Jim Shepard)
- Short Story:Brandy City (Mia Arderne)
- Short Story:Bravery (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Breatharians (Callan Wink)
- Short Story:Bride (Julia Elliott)
- Short Story:Bridge (Daniel J. O'Malley)
- Short Story:Buddy Bolden (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Bullet Number Two (Hannah Tinti)
- Short Story:Bus Fare (Caitlin R. Kiernan)
- Short Story:Bush-Hammer Finish (Michelle Butler Hallett)
- Short Story:Butta's Backyard Barbecue (Tony Medina)
- Short Story:Buying and Selling (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:By Degrees and Dilatory Time (S.L. Huang)
- Short Story:Call Out (Stephen Toase)
- Short Story:Calved (Sam J. Miller)
- Short Story:Can You Wear My Eyes (Kalamu ya Salaam)
- Short Story:Cat in a Box (Kevin Prufer)
- Short Story:Cat Pictures Please (Naomi Kritzer)
- Short Story:Ceiling (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Short Story:Chapter Six (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Short Story:Chapter Two (Antonya Nelson)
- Short Story:Charity (Charles Baxter)
- Short Story:Chicago 1927 (Jewelle Gomez)
- Short Story:Children Who Fly (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Short Story:Chimeras (Julie Steinbacher)
- 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 Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- Short Story:Claws and Savages (Martin Stokes)
- Short Story:Cold Little Bird (Ben Marcus)
- Short Story:Cold Wind (Nicola Griffith)
- Short Story:Collard Greens, Hummingbirds and Spider Silk (Malon Edwards)
- Short Story:Collateral (Peter Watts)
- Short Story:Collectors (Daniel Alarcón)
- Short Story:Communion (Mary Anne Mohanraj)
- Short Story:Complex God (Scott Sigler)
- Short Story:Conceptual Art (Brett Beach)
- Short Story:Corrie (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Covenant (Elizabeth Bear)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew Bourelle)
- Short Story:Cowboy Justice (Andrew D. Bourelle)
- Short Story:Crossing (Andre Kocsis)
- Short Story:Crush Depth (Brendan Dubois)
- Short Story:Cry of the Kharchal (Vandana Singh)
- Short Story:Dance for Me (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Dangerous (Joy Williams)
- Short Story:Dead Song (Jay Wilburn)
- Short Story:Dead Turtle (Rebecca Makkai)
- Short Story:Departures (Carole Johnstone)
- Short Story:Dermot (Simon Bestwick)
- Short Story:Descent (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Diem Perdidi (Julie Otsuka)
- Short Story:Dispatches from a Hole in the World (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Dixon (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Dog (Bruce McAllister)
- Short Story:Dog (Charles Mcleod)
- Short Story:Dog Bites (Ricardo Nuila)
- Short Story:Dog on a Cow (Gina Paoli)
- Short Story:Down to a Sunless Sea (Neil Gaiman)
- Short Story:Dreamer's Recall (Jeff Carroll)
- Short Story:Drifter (Emily St. John Mandel)
- Short Story:Each to Each (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Edge of Innocence (Ced Pharaoh)
- Short Story:Embarazada (Andrew Foster Altschul)
- Short Story:Encounters with Unexpected Animals (Bret Anthony Johnston)
- Short Story:Entwined (Brian Tobin)
- Short Story:Escape from Spiderhead (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Even the Mountains are Not Forever (Laurie Tom)
- Short Story:Evidence (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
- Short Story:Evie M. (O. A. Lindsey)
- Short Story:Exhortation (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Exit Wound (Nathan Poole)
- Short Story:Exposure (Stephanie Friedman)
- Short Story:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Sunny Moraine)
- Short Story:Eyes Wide Open (Hannah Onoguwe)
- Short Story:Eyewall (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fable (Charles Yu)
- Short Story:Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma)
- Short Story:Fairness (Chinelo Okparanta)
- Short Story:Fallen Boys (Mark Morris)
- Short Story:Fest (Matthew Baker)
- Short Story:Festered Wounds (Nancy Pauline Simpson)
- Short Story:Fifty Minutes (Joe Donnelly, Harry Shannon)
- Short Story:Filament (K. L. Cook)
- Short Story:Final Exam (Megan Arkenberg)
- Short Story:Final Girl Theory (A. C. Wise)
- Short Story:Final Verse (Chet Williamson)
- Short Story:Fine in the Fire (Lee Thomas)
- Short Story:Fingerprints (Justin Bigos)
- Short Story:Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain (Cat Rambo)
- Short Story:Flower Hunters (Lauren Groff)
- Short Story:Fool Proof (Bruce Robert Coffin)
- Short Story:Fools (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:For Something to Do (Elmore Leonard)
- 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:Former Marine (Russell Banks)
- 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:Free Your Mind (Kai Leakes)
- Short Story:Fresco, Byzantine (Natalie Bakopoulos)
- Short Story:From a Farther Room (David Gilbert)
- Short Story:Frontier Death Song (Laird Barron)
- Short Story:Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) (Ishmael Reed)
- Short Story:Galicia (Paul Yoon)
- Short Story:Ganger (Ball Lightning) (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Garments (Tahmima Anam)
- Short Story:Gauley Season (Matthew Neill Null)
- Short Story:Ghostreaper, or, Life after Revenge (Tim Pratt)
- Short Story:Ghosts of New York (Jennifer Pelland)
- Short Story:Gifted (Sharon Solwitz)
- Short Story:Gimmile's Songs (Charles R. Saunders)
- Short Story:Girl of Wisdom (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Given the Advantage of the Blade (Genevieve Valentine)
- Short Story:God (Benjamin Nugent)
- Short Story:God's Plan for Dr. Gaynor and Hastings Chiume (Saral Waldorf)
- Short Story:Going Across Jordan (James Lee Burke)
- Short Story:Going Too Far (Joan Silber)
- Short Story:Good Night (Paul Maliszewski)
- Short Story:Good Night, Moon (Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker)
- Short Story:Gospodar (Garth Greenwell)
- Short Story:Gravel (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:Greedy Choke Puppy (Nalo Hopkinson)
- Short Story:Gunpowder Alley (Bill Pronzini)
- Short Story:Gurov in Manhattan (Ehud Havazelet)
- Short Story:Half-Lives (Tim L. Williams)
- Short Story:Halfway Home (Linda Nagata)
- Short Story:Happy Endings (Kevin Canty)
- Short Story:Happy Trails (Sherman Alexie)
- Short Story:Harm and Hammer (Joseph D'Agnese)
- Short Story:Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez? (Isabel Yap)
- Short Story:Haven (Alice Munro)
- Short Story:He Knew (Donald Antrim)
- Short Story:Headshot (Julian Mortimer Smith)
- Short Story:Held (Amina Gautier)
- Short Story:Hello Again (Seth Fried)
- Short Story:Hello Hello (Seanan McGuire)
- Short Story:Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Herd Immunity (Tananarive Due)
- Short Story:Here Is My Thinking On A Situation That Affects Us All (Naomi (Rahul) Kanakia)
- Short Story:Hereafter (Samuel Peralta)
- Short Story:Heresy (Mandisi Nkomo)
- Short Story:Hippocampus (Adam Nevill)
- Short Story:Hold-Time Violations (John Chu)
- Short Story:Hollow (Mia Mingus)
- Short Story:Home (Alice McDermott)
- Short Story:Home (George Saunders)
- Short Story:Homing Instinct (Dani McClain)
- Short Story:Honeydew (Edith Pearlman)
- Short Story:Horned Men (Karl Taro Greenfeld)
- Short Story:Horror Story (Carmen Maria Machado)
- Short Story:Hostage (Mark Wisniewski)
- Short Story:Housewifely Arts (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
- Short Story:Hover (Nell Freudenberger)
- Short Story:How Frank Died (Paul Christensen)
- Short Story:How High the Moon (B. sharise Moore)

