My Favorite Short Stories I Read in 2018

My top 20 favorite short stories I read in 2018. (Many of these were published prior to 2018). I’m excluding stories I edited (many of my favorite stories from 2018 were of course from Sword and Sonnet).

Waterbirds by G. V. Anderson

The Third Martian Dick Temple by Sheila Marie Borideux

My Heart the Bullet in the Chamber by Stephanie Charette

The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg

Octopus vs. Bear by Kendra Fortmeyer

A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow

Hare’s Breath by Maria Haskins

When We Were Starless by Simone Heller

The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births by Jose Pablo Iriarte

A Priest of Vast and Distant Places by Cassandra Khaw

Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying by Alice Sola Kim

If a Bear… by Kathrin Köhler

The Foodie Federation’s Dinosaur Farm by Luo Longxiang

The Wind Cave by Haruki Murakami

Don’t Pack Hope by Emma Osborne

Monster Girls Don’t Cry by A. Merc Rustad

Cherry Wood Coffin by Eugenia M. Triantafyllou

Utopia, LOL? by Jamie Wahls

Tank! by John Wiswell

Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim