This year has been a roller-coaster for me. I went to Clarion West (a thing that seemed impossible just a year ago) and just recently moved back to Greece.

Needless to say I fell a little behind with my short story reading but what comforts me is that there are endless amazing stories out there so it wouldn’t be possible for me to read them all. For that I am thankful for all the year’s-end lists people are compiling because they will help me find more great stories!

I hope you find something you’ll love in this one.

Poems Written While, by Natalia Theodoridou, in Uncanny (January)

Dustdaughter, by Inda Lauryn, in Uncanny (January)

The Thing, With Feathers, by Marissa Lingen, in Uncanny (January)

The Daddy Thing, by K. C. Mead-Brewer, in Electric Literature (January)

The Message, by Vanessa Fogg, in The Future Fire (February)

The Crafter at the Web’s Heart, by Izzy Wasserstein, in Apex (February)

Give the Family My Love, by A. T. Greenblatt, in Clarkesworld (February)

The Archronology of Love, by Caroline M. Yoachim, in Lightspeed (April) – Novelette

Where the Rain Mothers Are, by Rafeeat Aliyu, in Strange Horizons (April)

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, by Nibedita Sen, in Nightmare (May)

Therein Lies a Soul, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, in The Dark (June)

The House Wins in the End, by L Chan, in The Dark  (July)

The Brightest Lights of Heaven, by Maria Haskins, in Fireside Magazine (July)

Ahura Yazda, the Great Extraordinary, by Senaa Ahmad, in Lightspeed (July)

“1078 Reasons“, by Aidan Doyle in Translunar Travelers Lounge (August)

How the Trick Is Done, by A.C. Wise, in Uncanny (August)

And Now His Lordship is Laughing, by Shiv Ramdas in Strange Horizons (September)

Shelter, Sustenance, Self, by Aimee Ogden in Fireside (September)

The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden, by Eleanna Castroianni in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (September)

A Square of Flesh, A Cube of Steel, by Phoebe Barton in Analog (September/October)

Failsafe, by Tim Chawaga in Escape Pod (October)

Personal Rakshasi, by Suzan Palumbo in Fireside Magazine (November)

A Tour of the Galesburg Glass Museum, by Kristina Ten in Cosmonauts Avenue (December)

The Garden’s First Rule, by Sheldon Costa in Strange Horizons (December)

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