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The Cusp of Something by Jai Clare

Cut on the Bias edited by Stephanie Tillotson

Cut Through The Bone by Ethel Rohan

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Daddy's by Lindsay Hunter

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

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

Dancing With Mr Darcy edited by Sarah Waters

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

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

Dracula's Guest: A Conoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Fiction edited by Michael Sims

The Dream Lover by William Boyd

Drift and Swerve by Samuel Ligon

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

Dutch Treatment by D E Fredd

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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

East of Suez by Alice Perrin

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

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

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

Farthing House and Other Stories by Susan Hill

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

Flashes From the Other World by Julie Ann Weinstein

The Floating Order by Erin Pringle

Fog Gorgeous Stag by Sean Lovelace

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander

Forgetting English by Midge Raymond

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

NEW Fragmented by Jeremy Worman

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

From Dark Places by Emma Newman

Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel

Fryupdale by Mark Staniforth



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

Gaza Blues by Etgar Keret and Samir el-Youssef

Gentleman's Relish by Patrick Gale

Getting Even: Revenge Stories edited by Mitzi Szereto

Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack by Carol Novack

God Lives in St Petersburg by Tom Bissell

God of the Pigeons by Jay Merill

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

Good Bones by Margaret Atwood

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

Gregory and Other Stories by Panos Ioannides

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The Half Life of Songs by David Gaffney

The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

Having Cried Wolf by Gretchen Shirm

Haywire by Thaddeus Rutkowski

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

Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine M. Lopez

Hot Kitchen Snow by Susannah Rickards

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

How They Were Found by Matt Bell

How To Take Yourself Apart How to Make Yourself Anew by Aaron Burch

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

I

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

I Smell Blood by Ralph Robert Moore

I'm With The Bears: Stories From a Damaged Planet edited by Mark Martin

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

If I Loved You I Would Tell You This by Robin Black

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

Insignificant Gestures by Jo Cannon

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

Island by Alistair MacLeod

Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy

J

Jumble Tales by Steve Morris

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

The Life and Memoirs of Dr. Pi and Other Stories by Edgar Bayley

Life in the Universe by Michael J Farrell

Life is a Dream by Gyula Krúdy

Lights in the Distance by Susan Millar DuMars

Like Life by Lorrie Moore

Little Black Dress edited by Susie Maguire

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

Looking For Jake by China Mièville

Lost in Translation: New Zealand Stories edited by Marco Sonzogni

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

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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 Mammoth Book of Best British Crime edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Man Receives a Letter by Peter Gordon

The Mapmakers of Spitalfields by Manzu Islam

Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood

Master of Sweet Dreams: Laboratory Fairy Tales by Andrew Ivortow

Masters of Technique edited by Howard Goldowsky

The Mayor of the Roses by Marianne Villanueva

Means of Escape by Hugh Brody

Mechanics Institute Review Issue 5 by Various

Mechanics Institute Review Issue 6 by Various

Memoirs of a Gone World by Martin Bax

Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

The Method by Tom Vowler

Metrophilias by Brendan Connell

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

Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Mrs Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn

Murder Manhattan Style by Warren Bull

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

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

The Necessity of Certain Behaviors by Shannon Cain

Neither Here Nor There by Marcel Jolley

Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson

NEW The New Uncanny edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page

New World Order by Derek Green

New York Echoes by Warren Adler

News From Home by Sefi Atta

Night Train by Lise Erdrich

Nine Stories by J D Salinger

Nineteen Seventysomething by Barry Divola

No-one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

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

Not So Perfect by Nik Perring

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

Null Immortalis by Various

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Oh Don't You Cry for Me by Philip Shirley

Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler

The Old Knowledge and Other Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker

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

Palo Alto by James Franco

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

Paris Metro Tales translated by Helen Constantine

Passport to Crime edited by Janet Hutchings

The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert A. Heinlein

Pee on Water by Rachel B Glaser

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime edited by Michael Sims

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

Perfect Lives by Polly Samson

Perfect Ten by Vivien Jones

Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller

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

Phobic by Various edited by Andy Murray

NEW The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall

Pieces for the Left Hand by J Robert Lennon

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

Pomegranate Stories by Gay Degani

Precarious by Al Riske

Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Punk Fiction edited by Janine Bullman

Q

Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women edited by Jo Glanville

Quiet Americans by Erika Dreifus

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Rainy Pavements by Pat Jourdan

Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester

Rattlesnakes & The Moon by Darlin' Neal

The Real Louise by Ailsa Cox

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

Reflections by Lisa Wardle

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

Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien

Sea Stories by Various

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

Selected Stories by Seán Ó Faoláin

The Scent of Cinnamon by Charles Lambert

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman

Self Help by Lorrie Moore

Self Portraits by Frederic Tuten

Selling Their Childhood by James Buchanan

The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken

Sharp Sticks Driven Nails edited by Philip O Ceallaigh

The Shieling by David Constantine

NEW Short Stories: English and Irish Authors Read Their Own Work by Various Authors

Silent Girl by Tricia Dower

The Silver Wind by Nina Allen

Sing Sorrow Sorrow edited by Gwen Davies

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

Solid Gold edited by David Gardiner

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

Starlings by Erinna Mettler

Stories in the Key of C Minor by Russell Bittner

The Stories of Ray Bradbury: Volume 2 by Ray Bradbury

Storm Warning by Vanessa Gebbie

Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

NEW Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler

NEW Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl

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

Temporary Lives by Ramola D

Ten Journeys by Various

Ten Journeys Through the Unknown by Heather Beck

Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

Ten Stories About Smoking by Stuart Evers

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

Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda

True North by André Mangeot

There is No Other by Jonathan Papernick

There Once Was A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

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

NEW Travelling Light by Tove Jansson

Trickle-Down Timeline by Cris Mazza

Truth and Other Fictions by Eva Tihanyi

Tunneling to the Center of The Earth by Kevin Wilson

The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

The Turning by Tim Winton

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

Twelve Stories by Paul Magrs

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

Undertow and Other Laments by Michael Kelly

Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois

Unthology 1 edited by Ashley Stokes and Robin Jones

The Unusual Death of Julie Christie by Andrew Michael Hurley

Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland

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Vanilla Bright Like Eminem by Michel Faber

Various Authors edited by Rob Redman

Visiting Hours edited by Daniel E. Wickett

Volt by Alan Heathcock

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan

Walking the Labyrinth by Brian George

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams

Watching the Windows Sleep by Tantra Bensko

We Are The Friction edited by Jez Burrows and Lizzy Stewart

We Know What We Are by Mary Hamilton

We're Getting On by James Kaelan

What Becomes by A L Kennedy

What Came Between by Patrick Cullen

What Doesn't Kill You... edited by Murray Dunlap and Kevin Morgan Watson

What Gets Into Us by Moira Crone

What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler

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

Where the Dog Star Never Glows by Tara Masih

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

NEW Why Willows Weep edited by Tracy Chevalier

Wifeshopping by Steven Wingate

Winter Hands by Annie Clarkson

Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender

The Wind Across the Grass by Nuala Ní Chonchúir

With One Eye Open by Polly Frost

Women Aloud edited by Ian Skillicorn

Women Up On Blocks by Mary Akers

Words from a Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie

The World Outside the Window edited by E. Don Harpe

The Wow Signal by Patrick Chapman

Written in Blood edited by Lindsay Ashford and Caroline Oakley

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Y

You Are Here by Various

You Don't Have to Say by Alan Beard

You Have Time for This by Various

You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

Young Irelanders by Gerard Donovan

Z

Zombies for Jesus by Johnny Townsend

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