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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls, by Senaa Ahmad<\/a> (Strange Horizons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Feather Wall, by Octavia Cade (Reckoning 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again, by Zen Cho<\/a> (B&N SF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forest Spirits, by Michael J. Deluca<\/a> (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Word of Flesh and Soul, by Ruthanna Emrys<\/a> (Tor.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten Things I Didn’t Do, by Maria Haskins<\/a> (Pseudopod)<\/p>\n\n\n\n More Sea Than Tar, by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Reckoning 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying, by Alice Sola Kim<\/a> (Tin House)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Thing About Ghost Stories, by Naomi Kritzer<\/a> (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ava Paints the Horses, by Ville Meril\u00e4inen<\/a> (Cast of Wonders<\/p>\n\n\n\n Birch Daughter, by Sara Norja (Fireside)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t Pack Hope, by Emma Osborne<\/a> (Nightmare)<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Aria for the Bloodlords, by Hannah Strom-Martin<\/a> (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Name Is Cybernetic Model XR389F, and I Am Beautiful, by Monica Valentinelli <\/a>(Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n