My Favorite Short Stories I Read in 2018
My top 20 favorite short stories I read in 2018. (Many of these were published prior to 2018). I’m excluding stories I edited (many of my favorite stories from 2018 were of course from Sword and Sonnet).
Waterbirds by G. V. Anderson
The Third Martian Dick Temple by Sheila Marie Borideux
My Heart the Bullet in the Chamber by Stephanie Charette
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
Octopus vs. Bear by Kendra Fortmeyer
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow
Hare’s Breath by Maria Haskins
When We Were Starless by Simone Heller
The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births by Jose Pablo Iriarte
A Priest of Vast and Distant Places by Cassandra Khaw
Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying by Alice Sola Kim
If a Bear… by Kathrin Köhler
The Foodie Federation’s Dinosaur Farm by Luo Longxiang
The Wind Cave by Haruki Murakami
Don’t Pack Hope by Emma Osborne
Monster Girls Don’t Cry by A. Merc Rustad
Cherry Wood Coffin by Eugenia M. Triantafyllou
Utopia, LOL? by Jamie Wahls
Tank! by John Wiswell
Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim