Here are some short stories (and maybe a few poems, and some longer short works) I’ve enjoyed this quarter! Please feel free to recommend more in the comments, I make no pretense that I’ve gotten to everything good that’s come out this year.
Yours, Wickedly: A Story in Thirteen Letters, Stephanie Burgis (Sunday Morning Transport)
The Naming of Knots, M. A. Carrick (BCS)
The Sand Knows Its Way Home, L. Chan (Reckoning)
Merciful Even to Scorpions, Kay Chronister (BCS)
“Equal Forces Opposed in Exquisite Tension,” John Chu (New Suns 2)
“Between Truth and Death on the Murmansk-Saint Petersburg Line,” Zohar Jacobs (Sunday Morning Transport)
“Juan,” Darcie Little Badger (New Suns 2)
“Dragons of Yuta,” Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (New Suns 2)
“Bayanihan,” Maricar Macario (F&SF Sept/Oct 23)
The Kingdom of Darkness, Sarah Monette (Uncanny)
To Dust Returned, Rita Oakes (BCS)
“The Plant and the Purist,” Malka Older (New Suns 2)
SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER, T.K. Rex (Reckoning)
Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down, Josh Rountree (The Deadlands)
“Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of Dushagorod,” Kristina Ten (F&SF Jul/Aug 23)
What It Means to Love a City, Mo Usavage (Reckoning)
“Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood,” Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
The Three O’Clock Dragon, John Wiswell (Tor.com)