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178: “A Small Good Thing” by Raymond Carver
15 Jun 2026
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177: “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut
01 Jun 2026
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176: “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
15 May 2026
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175: “Foster” by Claire Keegan
01 May 2026
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174: “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” by William H Gass
15 Apr 2026
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173: “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler
01 Apr 2026
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172: “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
15 Mar 2026
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171: The Wedding Party by Taylor Koekkoek
01 Mar 2026
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170: “Eveline” by James Joyce
15 Feb 2026
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169: “A Millionaire’s Girl” by Zelda Fitzgerald
01 Feb 2026
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168: “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber
15 Jan 2026
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167: “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata
01 Jan 2026
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166: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim
15 Dec 2025
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165: “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
01 Dec 2025
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164: “Hollow” by Breece D’J Pancake
15 Nov 2025
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163: “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever
01 Nov 2025
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162: “A Conversation with My Father” by Grace Paley
15 Oct 2025
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161: “A Manual for Cleaning Women” by Lucia Berlin
01 Oct 2025
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160: “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
15 Sep 2025
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159: “Wood Sorrel House” by Zach Williams
01 Sep 2025
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158: “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges
15 Aug 2025
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157: “Found Objects” by Jennifer Egan
01 Aug 2025
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156: “Two Words” by Isabel Allende
15 Jul 2025
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155: “The Piano Teacher’s Pupil” by William Trevor
01 Jul 2025
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154: “Nine Lives” by Ursula K. Le Guin
15 Jun 2025
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153: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
01 Jun 2025
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152: “How to Be an Other Woman” by Lorrie Moore
15 May 2025
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151: “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson
01 May 2025
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150: “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15 Apr 2025
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149: “The Martyr” by Mary Gordon
01 Apr 2025
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148: “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
15 Mar 2025
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147: “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick
01 Mar 2025
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146: “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” by J. D. Salinger
15 Feb 2025
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145: “Unaccompanied Sonata” by Orson Scott Card
01 Feb 2025
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144: “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter
15 Jan 2025
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143: “Zombie” by Joyce Carol Oates
01 Jan 2025
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142: “The Wind” by Lauren Groff
15 Dec 2024
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141: “These Golden Cities” by K. David Wade
01 Dec 2024
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140: “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N. K. Jemisin
15 Nov 2024
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139: “A Telephone Call” by Dorothy Parker
01 Nov 2024
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138: Curtis Sittenfeld vs ChatGPT
15 Oct 2024
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137: “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado
01 Oct 2024
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136: “The Celestial Omnibus” by E. M. Forster
15 Sep 2024
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135: “The Complete” by Gabriel Smith
01 Sep 2024
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134: “Sour Milk Girls” by Erin Roberts
15 Aug 2024
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133: “An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad
01 Aug 2024
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132: “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K Le Guin
15 Jul 2024
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131: “Jeffty is Five” by Harlan Ellison
01 Jul 2024
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130: “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
15 Jun 2024
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129: “Separating” by John Updike
01 Jun 2024
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128: “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” by Isaac Asimov
15 May 2024
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127: “The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell
01 May 2024
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126: “The Destructors” by Graham Greene
15 Apr 2024
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125: “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson
01 Apr 2024
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124: “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
15 Mar 2024
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123: “Woman at Exhibition” by E. Lily Yu
01 Mar 2024
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122: “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson
15 Feb 2024
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121: “When Stars Collide” by Ottessa Moshfegh
01 Feb 2024
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120: “The Dead” by James Joyce
15 Jan 2024
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119: “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro
01 Jan 2024
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118: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
15 Dec 2023
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117: “Drive My Car” by Haruki Murakami
01 Dec 2023
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116: “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
15 Nov 2023
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115: “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
01 Nov 2023
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114: “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon
15 Oct 2023
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113: “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabel Allende
01 Oct 2023
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112: “Spring in Fialta” by Vladimir Nabokov
15 Sep 2023
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111: “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
01 Sep 2023
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110: “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski
15 Aug 2023
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109: “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood
01 Aug 2023
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108: “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
15 Jul 2023
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107: “How to Eat Chicken Wings” by Kristen Arnett
01 Jul 2023
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106: “The Frog Prince” by Robert Coover
15 Jun 2023
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105: “Milkwishes” by Kristen Roupenian
01 Jun 2023
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104: “Redemption” by John Gardner
15 May 2023
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103: “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri
01 May 2023
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102: “The Worshipful Society of Glovers” by Mary Robinette Kowal
15 Apr 2023
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101: “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
01 Apr 2023
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100: “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Joyce Carol Oates
15 Mar 2023
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099: “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
01 Mar 2023
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098: “The Father” by Raymond Carver
15 Feb 2023
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097: “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
01 Feb 2023
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096: “Incarnations of Burned Children” by David Foster Wallace
15 Jan 2023
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095: “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” by Haruki Murakami
01 Jan 2023
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094: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
15 Dec 2022
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093: “Dinosaur” by Bruce Holland Rogers
01 Dec 2022
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092: “The Venus Effect” by Violet Allen
15 Nov 2022
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091: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
01 Nov 2022
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090: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
15 Oct 2022
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089: “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
01 Oct 2022
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088: “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station” by Caroline M. Yoachim
15 Sep 2022
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087: “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
01 Sep 2022
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086: “Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel
15 Aug 2022
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085: “The Black Phone” by Joe Hill
01 Aug 2022
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084: “Referential” by Lorrie Moore
15 Jul 2022
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083: “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
01 Jul 2022
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082: “The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente
15 Jun 2022
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081: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber
01 Jun 2022
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080: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
15 May 2022
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079: “Town of Birds” by Heather Monley
01 May 2022
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