I’m going to do a comprehensive post of all my short fiction recs from 2018 later this week, but meanwhile here’s the year-end stuff.
The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls, by Senaa Ahmad (Strange Horizons)
The Feather Wall, by Octavia Cade (Reckoning 3)
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again, by Zen Cho (B&N SF)
Forest Spirits, by Michael J. Deluca (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Word of Flesh and Soul, by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
Ten Things I Didn’t Do, by Maria Haskins (Pseudopod)
More Sea Than Tar, by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Reckoning 3)
Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying, by Alice Sola Kim (Tin House)
The Thing About Ghost Stories, by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny)
Ava Paints the Horses, by Ville Meriläinen (Cast of Wonders
Birch Daughter, by Sara Norja (Fireside)
Don’t Pack Hope, by Emma Osborne (Nightmare)
An Aria for the Bloodlords, by Hannah Strom-Martin (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
My Name Is Cybernetic Model XR389F, and I Am Beautiful, by Monica Valentinelli (Uncanny)