{"id":12202,"date":"2018-01-01T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2018-01-01T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:21:41","slug":"favorite-stories-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12202","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Stories of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2015, with no real plan or expectations in mind, I set myself the New Year’s resolution of reading a short story every day. I wanted to be more involved in the field of short fiction, and better aware of what was going on at different markets (other than my own<\/a>). Also, if you’re going to try to write<\/i> short fiction, you should really do yourself a favor and try to read some of it too.<\/p>\n

For the past two years, I’ve been pretty good about keeping to the resolution. I miss some days, and some days I forget to write down whichever story I’ve read. But altogether this year, I read at least 339 short stories, which isn’t half bad. And moreover I really liked<\/i> about half of them. That’s not say the other half were bad<\/i> stories–those happen, but they’re mercifully rare–but these 151 were my favorites.<\/p>\n

Just going by the numbers, for me the top three venues were Uncanny, Lightspeed, and Escape Pod, while the authors whose names appeared most often were A. Merc Rustad, A.C. Wise, and Adam-Troy Castro.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here in (roughly) alphabetic order are all the stories I really liked in 2017:<\/p>\n

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  1. “A Wound Like an Unplowed Field\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Max Wynne (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  2. “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by K.M. Sparza (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  3. “Whatever Tower, However High\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Julia K. Patt (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  4. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Cure for Ghosts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Eden Royce (Fireside Fiction)<\/li>\n
  5. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Lumberjack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide to Dryad Spotting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Charles Payseur (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  6. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ad Infinitum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kate Heartfield (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  7. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alexandria\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Monica Byrne (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  8. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All the Songs the Little Birds Sing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by T.D. Walker (Luna Station Quarterly))<\/li>\n
  9. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Abundance of Fish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by S. Qiouyi Lu (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  10. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Equal Share of the Bone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Karen Osborne (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  11. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Unearned Death\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Marissa Lingen (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  12. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And No Torment Shall Touch Them\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  13. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And Then There Were (N-One)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  14. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And With Her Went the Spring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Caroline Ratajski (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  15. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Angels of the Blockade\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Alex Acks (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  16. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Attending Your Own Funeral: An Etiquette Guide\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Erika L. Satifka (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  17. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Auspicium Melioris Aevi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by JY Yang (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  18. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beetle-Cleaned Skulls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by J.E.Bates (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  19. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Big Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Meg Elison (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  20. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153BlueBellow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n
  21. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bodies Stacked Like Firewood\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sam J. Miller (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  22. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But Only Because I Love You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Molly Tanzer (Nightmare, reprint)<\/li>\n
  23. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cake Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Charlie Jane Anders (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  24. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cat Person\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kristen Roupenian (The New Yorker)<\/li>\n
  25. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Fran Wilde (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  26. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cold Print\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Ramsey Campbell (Pseudopod)<\/li>\n
  27. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crossing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A.C. Wise (PodCastle)<\/li>\n
  28. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crow Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lynette Mejia (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  29. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crown of Thorns\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Octavia Cade (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  30. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Daddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jennifer R. Donohue (Syntax & Salt)<\/li>\n
  31. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Daisy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Eleanor Arnason (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  32. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dipso and the Crow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Rich Larson (Mythic Delirium)<\/li>\n
  33. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Down and Out in R\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lyeh\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Cathrynne M. Valente (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  34. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Drift Right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Wendy Wagner (Pseudopod)<\/li>\n
  35. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elemental Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Rachel Swirsky (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  36. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evil Opposite\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Naomi Kritzer (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  37. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153eyes I dare not meet in dreams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sunny Moraine (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  38. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fandom for Robots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  39. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flowers for the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Clio Yun-Su Davis (Luna Station Quarterly)<\/li>\n
  40. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Given Sufficient Desperation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bogi Tak\u00c3\u00a1cs (Escape Pod, reprint))<\/li>\n
  41. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Glasswort, Ice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Emily B. Cantaneo (Lackington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  42. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God-Ray\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Gregory Norman Bossert (Saturday Evening Post)<\/li>\n
  43. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goddess, Worm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Cassandra Khaw (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  44. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holding the Ghosts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Gwendolyn Clare (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  45. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How the 576th Annual Pollen Festival Blossomed My Budding Career\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by S. L. Saboviec (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  46. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Built This City for You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Cassandra Khaw (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  47. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If a Bird Can Be a Ghost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Allison Mills (Apex)<\/li>\n
  48. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the Blind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sunny Morraine (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  49. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Infinite Love Engine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Joseph Allen Hill (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  50. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153James, In the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  51. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Heaven Has Many Cats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Rachael K. Jones (Lackington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  52. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Later, Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tear Up The Inner Sanctum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A. Merc Rustad (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  53. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Longing for Stars Once Lost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A. Merc Rustad (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  54. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Making Us Monsters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sam J. Miller and Lara Elena Donnelly (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  55. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Marta Ranunculus Wolf Calf\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Gillian Barlow Graham (Lackington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  56. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe Look Up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jess Barber (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  57. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Milla\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini (trans. Rich Larson) (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  58. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never Truly Yours\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Marion Deeds (Podcastle)<\/li>\n
  59. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next Station, Shibuya\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Iori Kusano (Apex)<\/li>\n
  60. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nilda\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Junot Diaz (This Is How You Lose Her)<\/li>\n
  61. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nozizwe and Almahdi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by J.R. Dawson (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  62. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Grief and the Language of Flowers: Selected Arrangements\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Damien Angelica Walters (Mythic Delirium)<\/li>\n
  63. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paradox\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  64. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Phase Day: A Log of the Journalistic Career of Amaltua Obon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kara Dennison (Devilfish Review)<\/li>\n
  65. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Probably Still the Chosen One\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  66. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Promises of Spring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Caspian Gray (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  67. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Red Kelly Owns the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Shaenon K. Garrity (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  68. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remote Presence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Susan Palwick (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  69. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reversion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nin Harris (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  70. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  71. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rising Star\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Stephen Graham Jones (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  72. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rocket Surgery\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Effie Seiberg (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  73. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Run\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by C.R. Hodges (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  74. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Secret Keeper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  75. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seven Kinds of Baked Goods\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Maria Haskins (Luna Station Quarterly)<\/li>\n
  76. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seven Permutations of My Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lina Rather (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  77. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sex After Fascism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Audie Shushan (Luna Station Quarterly)<\/li>\n
  78. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shades of Infinity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Heather Morris (Shimmer)<\/li>\n
  79. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sunny Moraine (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  80. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Silenced\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Melissa Mead (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  81. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Snow, Blood, Fur\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Theodora Goss (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  82. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So Sings the Siren\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Annie Neugebauer (Apex)<\/li>\n
  83. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Soliloquy in a Cheap Diner Off Route 66\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by James Beamon (Apex)<\/li>\n
  84. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some Cupids Kill With Arrows\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  85. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bogi Tak\u00c3\u00a1cs (Clarkesorld)<\/li>\n
  86. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stealing Tales\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Mari Ness (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  87. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Still Life With Abyss\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jim Grimsley (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  88. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Still Tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Going to Be Another Working Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Amy Griswold (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  89. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Straight Lines\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Naru Dames Sundar (Escape Pod, reprint)<\/li>\n
  90. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sun, Moon, Dust\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Ursula Vernon (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  91. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Taking Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Gwendolyn Clare (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  92. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terra Nullius\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Hanu\u00c5\u00a1 Seiner (translated by Julie Nov\u00c3\u00a1kov\u00c3\u00a1) (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n
  93. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Texts from the Ghost War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Alex Yuschik (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  94. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That Game We Played During the War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Carrie Vaughn (Escape Pod, orig. Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  95. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The All of Nothing Days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Gus Moreno (Pseudopod)<\/li>\n
  96. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Better Part of Drowning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Octavia Cade (The Dark)<\/li>\n
  97. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Birding: A Fairy Tale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n
  98. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bone Plain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Karin Tidbeck (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  99. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bridgegroom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bo Balder (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  100. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Care of House Plants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jeremy Minton (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  101. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dark Birds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Ursula Vernon (Apex)<\/li>\n
  102. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Desert Cure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Daniel Ausema (Mythic Delirium)<\/li>\n
  103. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The First Stop Is Always the Last\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by John Wiswell (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  104. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  105. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The History of the Invasion Told in Five Dogs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kelly Jennings (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  106. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House at the End of the Lane Is Dreaming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A. Merc Rustad (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  107. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Joy of Baking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Holly Lyn Walrath (Luna Station Quarterly)<\/li>\n
  108. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ladder-Back Chair\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Barbara Krasnoff (Mythic Delirium)<\/li>\n
  109. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lamentation of Their Women\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  110. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Finbarr O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  111. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lies I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Told to Keep You Safe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Matt Dovey (Daily SF)<\/li>\n
  112. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lily Rose\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Emily B. Cataneo (The Dark)<\/li>\n
  113. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Mari Ness (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  114. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Man in the Crimson Coat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Andrea Tang (Apex)<\/li>\n
  115. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Names of the Sky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Matthew Claxton (PodCastle)<\/li>\n
  116. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ones Who Know Where They Are Going\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  117. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Quiltmaker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Mike Allen (Apex)<\/li>\n
  118. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Regression Test\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Wole Talabi (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  119. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Max Gladstone (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  120. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Stars and the Rain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Emily McCosh (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  121. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Stars That Fall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Samantha Murray (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  122. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Three-Tongued Mummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by E. Catherine Tobler (Apex)<\/li>\n
  123. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Toymaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Arundhati Hazra (F&SF)<\/li>\n
  124. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Water and the World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Premee Mohamed (Mythic Delirium)<\/li>\n
  125. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Weight of Sentience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Naru Dames Sundar (Shimmer)<\/li>\n
  126. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The White Fox\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by L.P. Lee (PodCastle)<\/li>\n
  127. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Whole Crew Hates Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  128. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wind You Touch When You Run\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by James Beamon (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  129. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The World Is Full of Monsters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jeff VanderMeer (Tor.com)<\/li>\n
  130. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These Constellations Will Be Yours\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Elaine Cuyegkeng (Strange Horizons)<\/li>\n
  131. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Is How I Wish to Be Restored\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Christie Yant (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  132. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To Budapest With Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Theodora Goss (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  133. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two Ways of Living\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Robert Reed (Clarkesworld)<\/li>\n
  134. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vegetablemen in Peanut Town\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by August Marion (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  135. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Water Like Air\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lora Gray (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  136. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wave-function collapse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Filip Wiltgren (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  137. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Are Not These Bodies, Strung Between The Stars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A.C. Wise (Pseudopod)<\/li>\n
  138. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Are Turning on a Spindle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Joanna Parypinski (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  139. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Welcome to Astuna\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Pip Coen (Apex)<\/li>\n
  140. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wendy, Darling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by A.C. Wise (Daily Science Fiction)<\/li>\n
  141. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I Told My Little Girl About the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us Into Hamburgers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n
  142. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by B. Morris Allen (Lackington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<\/li>\n
  143. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When First He Laid Eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Rachael K. Jones (reprinted at Pseudopod)<\/li>\n
  144. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Which Super Little Dead Girl\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nino Cipri (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  145. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While the Black Stars Burn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lucy A. Snyder (Apex)<\/li>\n
  146. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Matthew Kressel (Nightmare)<\/li>\n
  147. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With Cardamom I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll Bind Their Lips\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Beth Cato (Uncanny)<\/li>\n
  148. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Amelia Aldred (Flash Fiction Online)<\/li>\n
  149. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yosemite\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by D.S. McNab (Escape Pod)<\/li>\n
  150. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You and Me and Mars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sandy Parsons (Luna Station Quarterly)<\/li>\n
  151. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You Will Never Know What Opens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Mair Ness (Lightspeed)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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