Foreword / Jenny Minton Quigley --
Introduction / Lauren Groff --
Office hours / Ling Ma (The Atlantic) --
Man mountain / Catherine Lacey (Astra) --
Me, Rory and Aurora / Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Granta) --
The complete / Gabriel Smith (The Drift) --
The haunting of Hajji Hotak / Jamil Jan Kochai (The New Yorker) --
Wisconsin / Lisa Taddeo (The Sewanee Review) --
Ira & the whale / Rachel B. Glaser (The Paris Review) --
The commander's teeth / Naomi Shuyama-Gómez (Michigan Quarterly Review) --
The mad people of Paris / Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead (Southwest Review) --
Snake & submarine / Shelby Kinney-Lang (ZYZZYVA) --
The mother / Jacob M'hango (Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa and Catalyst Press) --
The hollow / 'Pemi Aguda (Zoetrope) --
Dream man / Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Francisca González-Arias (Freeman's) --
The locksmith / Grey Wolfe LaJoie (The Threepenny Review) --
After hours at the Acacia Park pool / Kirstin Valdez Quade (American Short Fiction) --
Happy is a doing word / Arinze Ifeakandu (The Kenyon Review) --
Elision / David Ryan (New England Review) --
Xífù / K-Ming Chang (Electric Literature) --
Temporary housing / Kathleen Alcott (Harper's Magazine) --
The Blackhills / Eamon McGuinness (The Stinging Fly) --
The O. Henry Prize winners 2023: the writers on their work.