In 2018 I read more short fiction than ever before! An unsurprising amount of them had something to do with the moon.
I was also got worse at keeping track of it all, unfortunately. So, in no particular order, here are some of my favorite short SFFH (and occasionally literary-leaning) stories of 2018:
- A House by the Sea — P.H. Lee
- Mother? — Cynthia So
- The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington — Phenderson Djèlí Clark
- A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix E. Harrow
- How to Swallow the Moon — Isabel Yap
- Lake Mouth — Casey Hannan
- A Very Large Number of Moons— Kai Stewart
- Talk to Your Children About Two-Tongued Jeremy — Theodore McCombs
- If We Die Unjustified — A. Merc Rustad
- In the Bottom of the Tower Where All the Beasts Roam — Michelle Muenzler
- Art — Alberto Chimal (translated by David Bowles)
- More Tomorrow — Premee Mohamed (expired website)
- Strange Waters — Samantha Mills
- The Thing About Ghost Stories — Naomi Kritzer
- Stet — Sarah Gailey
- If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again — Zen Cho
- The House on the Moon — William Alexander
- With One Tongue — A.C. Wise
- Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake — Mel Kassel
- Domestic Violence — Madeline Ashby
- Quiet like Homecoming — Cassandra Khaw
- The Tale of the Three Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who was Made of Meat — Brooke Bolander
- Dead Air — Nino Cipri
- Run— Valya Lupescu
- Of Warps and Wefts— Innocent Chizaram Ilo
- Moonboys — Stephen Graham Jones
- Cherry Wood Coffin — Eugenia Triantafyllou
- Objects in the Noble Museum — Marissa Lingen
- Momento Mori — Tiah Marie Beautement
- My name is Cybernetic Model XR389F and I am Beautiful — Monica Valentinelli
- A Voice in Many Different Forms — Osahon Ize-Iyamu in Sword and Sonnet
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