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The Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award Winners, 1970–2013 Donald Anderson Fire Road Dianne Benedict Shiny Objects Marie-Helene Bertino Safe as Houses Will Boast Power Ballads David Borofka Hints of His Mortality Robert Boswell Dancing in the Movies Mark Brazaitis The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala Jack Cady The Burning and Other Stories Pat Carr The Women in the Mirror Kathryn Chetkovich Friendly Fire Cyrus Colter The Beach Umbrella Jennine Capó Crucet How to Leave Hialeah Jennifer S. Davis Her Kind of Want Janet Desaulniers What You’ve Been Missing Sharon Dilworth The Long White Susan M. Dodd Old Wives’ Tales Merrill Feitell Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes James Fetler Impossible Appetites Starkey Flythe, Jr. Lent: The Slow Fast Sohrab Homi Fracis Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America H. E. Francis The Itinerary of Beggars Abby Frucht Fruit of the Month Tereze Glück May You Live in Interesting Times Ivy Goodman Heart Failure Barbara Hamby Lester Higata’s 20th Century Ann Harleman Happiness Elizabeth Harris The Ant Generator Ryan Harty Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona Mary Hedin Fly Away Home Beth Helms American Wives Jim Henry Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive Lisa Lenzo Within the Lighted City Kathryn Ma All That Work and Still No Boys Renée Manfredi Where Love Leaves Us Susan Onthank Mates The Good Doctor John McNally Troublemakers Molly McNett One Dog Happy Tessa Mellas Lungs Full of Noise Kate Milliken If I’d Known You Were Coming Kevin Moffett Permanent Visitors Lee B. Montgomery Whose World Is This? Rod Val Moore Igloo among Palms Lucia Nevai Star Game Thisbe Nissen Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night Dan O’Brien Eminent Domain Philip F. O’Connor Old Morals, Small Continents, Darker Times Sondra Spatt Olsen Traps Elizabeth Oness Articles of Faith Lon Otto A Nest of Hooks Natalie Petesch After the First Death There Is No Other Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti Glen Pourciau Invite C. E. Poverman The Black Velvet Girl Michael Pritchett The Venus Tree Nancy Reisman House Fires Josh Rolnick Pulp and Paper Elizabeth Searle My Body to You Enid Shomer Imaginary Men Chad Simpson Tell Everyone I Said Hi Marly Swick A Hole in the Language Barry Targan Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Annabel Thomas The Phototropic Woman Jim Tomlinson Things Kept, Things Left Behind Doug Trevor The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space Laura Valeri The Kind of Things Saints Do Anthony Varallo This Day in History Don Waters Desert Gothic Lex Williford Macauley’s Thumb Miles Wilson Line of Fall Russell Working Resurrectionists Charles Wyatt Listening to Mozart Don Zancanella Western Electric ...

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