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The best debut short story collections of any time period.
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Speedy Reads
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Chris-Jean Clarke (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Watering Heaven
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4.16 avg rating — 152 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 49,072 ratings
score: 699,
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Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
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Zack Love (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
score: 600,
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2013: A Stellar Collection
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 322,812 ratings
score: 594,
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Doll Palace
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Sara Lippmann (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 496,
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Understories
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Tim Horvath (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 332 ratings
score: 493,
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Jesus’ Son
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4.13 avg rating — 39,752 ratings
score: 491,
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Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar
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The Silver Elves (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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This Is Not Your City
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Caitlin Horrocks (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
score: 396,
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Battleborn
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4.12 avg rating — 5,421 ratings
score: 394,
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Every Kiss a War
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Leesa Cross-Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 394,
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The Theory of Light and Matter
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Andrew Porter (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
score: 297,
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Shenanigans!
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Joseph Michael Owens (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 296,
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From Here
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Jen Michalski (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 295,
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
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3.88 avg rating — 9,125 ratings
score: 292,
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The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 291,
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Toast
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Jemima Abulhawa (Editor and compiler)
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Baptisms & Dogs: Stories
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Brian L. Tucker (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Impromptu Scribe
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Alex Morritt (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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By Light We Knew Our Names
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Anne Valente (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 505 ratings
score: 200,
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The Middle Ground: Stories
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Jeff Ewing (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
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4.01 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
score: 198,
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Girl with Curious Hair
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3.85 avg rating — 14,978 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
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Alissa Nutting (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Museum of the Weird
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Amelia Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 890 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Ayiti
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 8,190 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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The Book of Duels: Flash Fiction
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3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
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Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 271 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories
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Victor D. López (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Great Frustration
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3.93 avg rating — 369 ratings
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1 person voted
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Six Shades of Romance
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3.63 avg rating — 87 ratings
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1 person voted
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Dream of Horses & Other Stories
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Aashish Kaul (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
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4.05 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
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Ain't but Two Days in a Month: The First and the Fifteenth
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Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
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Steve Baldwin (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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Sympathetic People
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Donna Baier-Stein (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Night's Night
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The House They Couldn't Build
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Jigsaw
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Julie S. Howlin (Goodreads Author)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 100,
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The Stars Seem so Far Away
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Margrét Helgadóttir (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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My Life as a Mermaid, and Other Stories
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Jen Grow (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Small Screen Big Lies
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Kishore Daswani (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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1 person voted
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Hoopty Time Machines
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Christopher DeWan (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Motherwit
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4.28 avg rating — 117 ratings
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When There's Nowhere Else to Run
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3.37 avg rating — 276 ratings
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A Thousand Distant Radios
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Woody Skinner (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Blue Songs in an Open Key
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Naughty Heroes: In And Out Of Uniform
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Nicole Austin (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
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3.95 avg rating — 3,192 ratings
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An Old Tree in Kyoto: How a Japanese girl got freedom
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Hidemi Woods (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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5 Short Romance Stories Collection #1
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Misha Quinn (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100,
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The Galaxie and Other Rides
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4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
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Patrick Somerville (Goodreads Author)
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score: 99,
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Inappropriate Behavior: Stories
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3.58 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Lost in the Funhouse
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3.68 avg rating — 6,682 ratings
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Bats or Swallows
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Teri Vlassopoulos (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 99,
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Stop Breakin Down: Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Things to Make and Break
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May-Lan Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 619 ratings
score: 99,
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Lick the Razor - the Definitive Collection
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 32,051 ratings
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Flowering Judas
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3.46 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Blood a Cold Blue
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4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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D.B. Tarpley (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 98,
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Rock Springs
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4.06 avg rating — 5,729 ratings
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Baby and Other Stories
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Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 192 ratings
score: 97,
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Dubliners
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3.84 avg rating — 172,376 ratings
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Whispers in Dust and Bone: Andrew Geyer
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories
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4.26 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 204,451 ratings
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What Happened Here
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Bonnie ZoBell (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 94,
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Once Removed: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
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Colette Sartor (Goodreads Author)
4.73 avg rating — 64 ratings
score: 94,
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Troglodyte
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Tracy DeBrincat (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 93,
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Separate Flights
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4.23 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
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4.34 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Milk Blood Heat
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Dantiel W. Moniz (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 9,921 ratings
score: 92,
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Cul De Sac
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Scott Wrobel (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 91,
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Short Tails: Journal of Experimental Fiction 42
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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In the House
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Lynn K. Kilpatrick (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 88,
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Pee on Water
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Rachel B. Glaser (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 290 ratings
score: 87,
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For Sale by Owner: Stories
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Kelcey Parker Ervick (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 86,
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The Melancholy of Anatomy
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3.87 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Spilt Milk
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D.K. Cassidy (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 562 ratings
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