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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yours, Wickedly: A Story in Thirteen Letters<\/a>, Stephanie Burgis (Sunday Morning Transport) <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Naming of Knots<\/a>, M. A. Carrick (BCS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sand Knows Its Way Home<\/a>, L. Chan (Reckoning)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merciful Even to Scorpions<\/a>, Kay Chronister (BCS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Equal Forces Opposed in Exquisite Tension,” John Chu (New Suns 2<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Between Truth and Death on the Murmansk-Saint Petersburg Line,” Zohar Jacobs (Sunday Morning Transport)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Juan,” Darcie Little Badger (New Suns 2<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Dragons of Yuta,” Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (New Suns 2<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Bayanihan,” Maricar Macario (F&SF Sept\/Oct 23)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kingdom of Darkness<\/a>, Sarah Monette (Uncanny)<\/p>\n\n\n\n To Dust Returned<\/a>, Rita Oakes (BCS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Plant and the Purist,” Malka Older (New Suns 2<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER<\/a>, T.K. Rex (Reckoning)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down<\/a>, Josh Rountree (The Deadlands)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of Dushagorod,” Kristina Ten (F&SF Jul\/Aug 23)<\/p>\n\n\n\n What It Means to Love a City<\/a>, Mo Usavage (Reckoning)<\/p>\n\n\n\n