It has been an amazing year for short fiction and I feel like I have learned so much writing-wise just by reading these stories. Thank you people!

Sour Milk Girls, by Erin Roberts, in Clarkesworld

The Court Magician, by Sarah Pinsker, in Lightspeed

We Head For the Horizon and Return with Bloodshot Eyes, by Eleanna Castroianni, in Podcastle

Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-existence, by Izzy Wasserstein, in Clarkesworld

The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea, by Sara Saab, in Shimmer

And Yet, by A.T. Greenblatt, in Uncanny Magazine

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, by LaShawn M. Wanak, in Fireside

Strange Waters, by Samantha Mills, in Strange Horizons

Now Watch My Rising, by A. Merc Rustad, in Fireside

Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep, by Nibedita Sen, in Nightmare

Tank!, by John Wiswell, in Diabolical Plots

Quietly Gigantic, by K.C. Mead-Brewer in Strange Horizons

Every Good-Bye Ain’t Gone, by Eden Royce, in Strange Horizons

The Pull of the Herd, by Suzan Palumbo, in Anathema

The Stories We Tell about Ghosts, by A.C.Wise, in  The Dark

Jewel of the Vashwa, by Jordan Kurella, in Apex Magazine

In the Garden Watching Nim Noms, by Osahon Ize-Iyamu, in Omenana

The Fainting Game, by Nino Cipri, in PseudoPod

The House of Illusionists, by Vanessa Fogg, in Liminal Stories

When Leopard’s-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven, by Vajra Chandrasekera, in Liminal Stories

It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog, by Maria Haskins, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Find On Your Body the Bruise, by Maricat Stratford in Shimmer

The Names of Women, by Natalia Theodoridou, in Strange Horizons

Toothsome Thing, by Chimedum Ohaegbu, in Strange Horizons

Mouths, by Lizz Huerta, in Lightspeed

On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog, by Adam R. Shannon, in Apex Magazine