Patricia Abbott hosts the links most weeks, in addition to her own reviews 

Frank Babics: "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (first in an annual "gift book" anthology, edited anonymously: The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII), from the ISFDB poll of greatest relevant short fiction

Joachim Boaz: "The Seed of Earth" by Robert Silverberg (Super-Science Fiction, April 1958, edited by W. W. Scott);  "Pale Hands" by Doris Pischeria (Orbit 19, 1974, edited by Damon Knight)

Matthew Bradley: "Booby Trap" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, August 1944, edited by Sumner Blossom

Paul Fraser: "New-Way-Groovers Stew" by Grania Davis, Fantastic, August 1976, edited by Ted White; "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald  Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race" by J. G. Ballard, Ambit magazine, 1969, edited by Martin Bax

Rich Horton: six "Neptune's Reach" stories by Gregory Feeley; A Pair from Space: novellas by Robert Silverberg and James Blish

Jerry House: "Cloonaturk" by Mervyn Wall, Argosy [UK], December 1947, edited by Dorothy M. Sutherland
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Tracy K: "Birdie" by Lauren Groff, The Atlantic online, 14 January 2020, edited by Jeffrey Goldberg

George Kelley: Dark Origins, The Collected Novellas, V. 1, edited anonymously, Aconyte 2021

Steve Lewis: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1967, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Steve M: Western Adventure (UK edition), October 1958, edited anonymously

Todd Mason: "Funerals" by Robert Bausch, Phoebe, Summer 1973 (and some thoughts about the late D. M. Thomas)

Jeff Meyerson: briefly: Mostly Murder by Fredric Brown (in comments)

James Reasoner: Adventure, January 1952, edited by Ejler Jakobsson

Kevin Tipple: Guilty Crime Story Magazine, Fall 2022, edited by Brendan Barrows 

"Paperback Warrior": Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell

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