I had a big chunk of time when I just wasn’t reading short stories much, and when I asked for recommendations from that time I got very little. So as usual, please, if there’s stuff you’ve been enjoying, give me links in the comments. (And while it’s fine to link to stuff from 2018 and before in the interest of a good read, what I’m mostly interested in with these posts is recent-ish fiction–this-year-ish mostly.)
(Also a poem or two might sneak in, you never know.)
Chen Qiufan, Coming of the Light (Broken Stars)
John Chu, Probibilitea (Uncanny)
Tiny Connolly, A Sharp Breath of Birds (Uncanny)
Nicky Drayden, The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Fiyah Issue 9)
Meg Elison, Hey Alexa (Do Not Go Quietly)
Theodora Goss, The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly (Uncanny)
Rachael K. Jones, Oil Under Her Tongue (Do Not Go Quietly)
Cassandra Khaw, What We Have Chosen to Love (Do Not Go Quietly)
Jonathan Kincaid, The Ishologu (Fiyah Issue 9)
Karen Osborne, The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power (Uncanny)
Charles Payseur, Undercurrents (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Nibedita Sen, Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island (Nightmare)
Fran Wilde, The Unseen (Fireside)
Xia Jia, Goodnight Melancholy (Broken Stars)
Caroline Yoachim, A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves (Daily Science Fiction)