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13 Phantasms and Other Stories  by James P. Blaylock  

18 Lies and 3 Truths: 2007 StoryQuarterly Annual by Various 

29 Ways to Drown by Niki Aguirre

50 Rooms by Jason Allan Cole

'68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution edited by Nicholas Royle

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A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti

A Different Kind of Love by Jay Mandal 

A Faker's Dozen by Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Happy Man by Axel Thormählen

A History of Sarcasm by Frank Burton

A Little Javanese by Andre Mangeot 

All Over by Roy Kesey 

All The Little Things That We Lose by Deborah Sheldon

All That Work And Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma

Alternative Medicine by Laura Solomon 

American Cool by Susan DiPlacido

American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

And Then We Saw The Flames by Daniel A. Hoyt

Animal by Alexandra Leggat

Anthropology and 100 Other Stories by Dan Rhodes

Apologies Forthcoming by Xujun Eberlein  

Aromabingo by David Gaffney 

As In Music by Kathy Page

As Rivers Flow by John Saul 

Astral Bodies by Jay Merrill 


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Babylon and Other Stories by Alix Ohlin

Back Burning by Sylvia Petter

Bad Monkey by Curtis Smith

Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines

Ballistics by Alex Keegan

Bang Crunch by Neil Smith

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers  

Barcelona Plates by Alexei Sayle   

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa

Being Normal by Stephen Shieber
                             

The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 edited by Carl Hiaasen   

The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King, Heidi Pitlor

Best of Best American Erotica 2008 edited by Susie Bright   

Best Gay Romance 2009 edited by Richard Labonté

Best New Zealand Fiction Vol. 5 edited by Owen Marshall

Big World by Mary Miller

Binding Energy  by Daniel Marcus

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin  

Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips  

The Boat by Nam Le

Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj  

Body Parts: An Anatomy of Love by Richard Bardsley   

The Body of This by Andrew McNabb

The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather

Bonne Route edited by Ian Daley   

Route Book at Bedtime edited by Ian Daley

The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith 

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy

Brace by Various, Jim Hinks (ed)  

Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes 

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2008  by Various

Broken Doll by Neil Campbell 

Bucket of Frogs edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham

Butterfly Tears by Zoë S. Roy 

Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson   


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Cello and Other Stories by Frances Thimann

Cern Zoo edited by D F Lewis

Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor 

Church Booty by Carol Manley

Close Encounters by Jen Michalski 

Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas 

Collected Stories by John Cheever

The Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield 

Collected Stories by Janice Galloway

Collected Stories by Richard Yates

Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez 

The Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark   

The Complete Short Stories by JG Ballard   

Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor 

Creatures of the Earth by John McGahern

Criminal Tendencies edited by Lynne Patrick

Crimini: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction  ed Giancarlo de Cataldo

The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane

Cure All by Kim Parko

The Cusp of Something by Jai Clare


D

Damaged Goods: Narrative Unendings from Inside My Heart & Mind by Deborah Bostock-Kelley

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser 

Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge 

Davy Byrnes Stories: The Six Prize-Winning Stories from the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing award as selected by Richard Ford.

Dead Boys by Richard Lange

Dead Iraqis by Ellis Sharp

NEW Death is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca

NEW Deer and Other Stories by Susan Tepper

The Deportees by Roddy Doyle  

The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace

Dial M for Monkey by Adam Maxwell 

Dirty Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fictions by Various Authors

Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill

Donut Holes: Sticky Pieces of Fictionalized Realities by Matty Stanfield

Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese

The Dream Lover by William Boyd  

Drift and Swerve by Samuel Ligon 

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

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EarthFuture by Guy Dauncey

Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young

Ebb and Flow by Lorna Page

Eclipses by Kiril Bozhinov 

East of Here, Close to Water by Josephine Rowe

Elegy for a Fabulous World by Alta Ifland

Emerge (New Australian Writing)  Philip Edmonds, Dominique Wilson (eds) 

The End of the World  by Paddy O'Reilly

Esther Stories by Peter Orner

Everyday by Lee Rourke

NEW Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower


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Fajitas and Friends by Betty Serra-Rojas

False Relations by Michelene Wandor 

Family Connections by Chrissie Gittins  

A Famine in Newcastle by Ryan O'Neill

Famous Fathers & Other Stories  by Pia Z. Ehrhardt 

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah

The Feaster from Afar and Other Ghastly Inhabitants by Joseph Payne Brennan

Feeding Strays by Stefanie Freele

Fighting It by Regi Claire

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction by Alison MacLeod   

The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith

The Floating Order by Erin Pringle

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander 

Forgetting English by Midge Raymond

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman  

Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Various Authors           


G

Galileo's Children: Tales of Science Vs. Superstition edited by Gardner Dozois

Gaza Blues by Etgar Keret and Samir el-Youssef 

Getting Even: Revenge Stories edited by Mitzi Szereto

God Lives in St Petersburg by Tom Bissell

Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful by Deborah Kay Davies

Grace Paley: The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

Green and Unpleasant Land by The InkerMen

Greenfly by Tom Lee


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The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

Heavier than Air by Nona Caspers   

HeavyGlow Flash Fiction Anthology by Various

Hello Walls by Jack Swenson

Hieroglyphics and other stories by Anne Donovan

Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform edited by Jeffery Hess

NEW Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. Lopez

The House of Your Dream edited by Robert Alexander and Denis Maloney

How the Broken Lead the Blind by Matt Bell

How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace .

How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan 

Human Is? A Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick 

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I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs

ID Crimes of Identity:The Crime Writers’ Association Anthology  by Various

NEW If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home  by John Jodzio

In a Bear's Eye by Yannick Murphy

In All Probability by Steve Morris

In An Uncharted Country by Clifford Garstang

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities  by Delmore Schwartz

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor

In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsyth

Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel

Instruction Manual for Swallowing by Adam Marek

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss

Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman, Christoper Barzak

Invisible Cities  by Italo Calvino 

Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy



J

K

Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin

Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin



L

The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke

Last Night by James Salter

Later, At the Bar by Rebecca Barry  

Leading the Dance by Sarah Salway    .

Ledra Street by Nora Nadjarian

Let's Be Alone Together edited by Declan Meade

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off edited by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith, Sarah Wood

Liar, Liar by Alan McMonagle 

Life in the Universe by MIchael J Farrell 

Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories by Various edited by John Klima   

The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall  

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese short-shorts by Various, transl. by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt. 

Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy

Love Does Not Make me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods


M

M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories by Various 

Mad to Live by Randall Brown

The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link   

Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel

The Mayor of the Roses by Marianne Villanueva 

Means of Escape by Hugh Brody

Mechanics Institute Review Issue 5 by Various

NEW Mechanics Institute Review Issue 6 by Various

Michael Martone by Michael Martone 

Midnight Convoy and Other Stories by S. Yizhar   .

Migration Patterns  by Gary Schanbacher

Mix Tape by A J Kirby

The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde

Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks

More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories by Courttia Newland

NEW My Father's Tears by John Updike

My Mistress' Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Various




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National Virginity Pledge: Short Stories and Other Lies by Barry Graham 

Nature's Magician by Anthony Cropper

New World Order by Derek Green

New York Echoes by Warren Adler

Night Train  by Lise Erdrich.

No-one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

NEW Normal People Don't Live Like This by Dylan Landis  

The Norton Book of Science Fiction by Various, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery 

Nothing Like An Ocean by Jim Tomlinson

Nothing that Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith

Now Playing by Shellie Zacharia

Nude by Nuala Ní Chonchúir 


O

Oh Don't You Cry for Me by Philip Shirley 

Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler

One More Year  by Sana Krasikov

One of These Things is Not Like The Others by Stephanie Johnson

One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box by Debi Olen Unferth, Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggars

One World by Various Authors 

The Other End of the Rainbow by David Gardiner 

Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Our Story Begins: New and Collected Stories by Tobias Wolff

Ox Tales: Air, Earth, Fire, Water edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence


P

Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction Inspired by the Smiths edited by Peter Wild

Park Stories by Ali Smith, Sheena Mackay, William Boyd, Nicola Barker, Hanan al Shaykh, Clare Wigfall, Will Self

Passport to crime by Various edited by Janet Hutchings 

The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert A. Heinlein 

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime edited by Michael Sims

The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories edited by Paula Morris

Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller 

Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall edited by Peter Wild 

Phobic by Various edited by Andy Murray

Pieces for the Left Hand by J Robert Lennon

Polyglot: Stories Of The West's Wet Edge by Wendy Marcus

Precarious by Al Riske

Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Punk Fiction edited by Janine Bullman 


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R

Rainy Pavements by Pat Jourdan

Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester

The Real Louise  by Ailsa Cox

Red Poppies: Tales of Envy and Revenge by S. P. Miskowski

Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy

Remember Love by Jody Lisberger

Repetition Patterns by Ben Tanzer 

Road of Five Churches  by Stephanie Dickinson

Roll Up for the Arabian Derby by Susan Wicks

Ruins and Relics by Alice Zorn

Ryan Seacrest is Famous  by Dave Housley  


S

Sea Stories by Various

See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming edited by Steven Coy 

The Scent of Cinnamon by Charles Lambert 

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club  by Kim Newman  

Self Help  by Lorrie Moore

Selling Their Childhood by James Buchanan

The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken

The Shieling by David Constantine

Silent Girl by Tricia Dower

The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts by Claudia Smith   

Sleepers Almanac by Various   

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Vol 2 edited by George Mann

Some New Ambush  by Carys Davies   

Songs of Insurgency by Spencer Dew

Space Magic  by David D. Levine  

St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Stories in the Key of C Minor by Russell Bittner 

The Stories of Ray Bradbury: Volume 2 by Ray Bradbury

Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman


T

Tales of Galicia by Andzrej Stasiuk

Tales of the DeCongested Vol. 2 edited by Paul Blaney and Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone

Taking Pictures by Anne Enright 

NEW Temporary Lives by Ramola D

Ten Journeys Through the Unknown by Heather Beck 

Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

Tender by Mark Ilis 

There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry  

The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

The Third Shore anthology by Various

NEW Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda

The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

The Turning by Tim Winton  

Things that Pass for Love by Allison Amend 

Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman 

Touching the Monkey: The Best of TQRStories.com edited by Theodore Q. Rorschalk

Town of Fiction by the Atlantis Collective, edited by John Kenny

Transported by Tim Jones

Truth and Other Fictions by Eva Tihanyi

Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel by Heidi James, Kay Sexton, Lucy Fry   

Twisted Tails III: Pure Fear edited by J. Richard Jacobs

Typewriter by Jimmy Chen


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Under Compulsion by Thomas M. Disch  

Ugly Stories for Beautiful People  by James Burr 

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois

Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland



V

Vanilla Bright Like Eminem  by Michel Faber .

Visiting Hours edited by Daniel E. Wickett



W

Walking the Labyrinth by Brian George  

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams

What Becomes by A L Kennedy

What Gets Into Us by Moira Crone

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg

We Are The Friction edited by Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart

When I Always Wanted Something by Carole Glasser Langille

When it Changed: Science into Fiction, an Anthology edited by Geoff Ryman

Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason Brown

Why The Long Face by Ron MacLean

Wifeshopping by Steven Wingate

Winter Hands by Annie Clarkson    

Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender   

The Wind Across the Grass by Nuala Ní Chonchúir   

Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers