Genre short fiction, 2013–present

2013
Best of 2013
M. Bennardo, 'Final Corrections, Pittsburgh Times-Dispatch'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 3 JANUARY 2013)
Honorable mentions
M. Bennardo, 'I Heard You Got a Cat, I Heard You Named Him Charles'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 20 FEBRUARY 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'Dear Beto'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Andy Duncan, Ellen Klages, 'Wakulla Springs'  (TOR.COM, OCTOBER 2013)
Marc de Faoite, '2064'  (TROPICAL MADNESS, 2013)
Marc de Faoite, 'Sang Kancil'  (TROPICAL MADNESS, 2013)
Marc de Faoite, 'Siti Fatima and the Bomoh's Curse'  (TROPICAL MADNESS, 2013)
Roger Ebert, 'The Thinking Molecules of Titan'  (NEWYORKER.COM, 4 APRIL 2013)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt, 'The Ink Readers of Doi Saket'  (TOR.COM, 24 APRIL 2013)
Liu Cixin, '4/1/2018'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Ken Liu, 'Nova Verba, Mundus Novus'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 13 AUGUST 2013)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'Beautiful Curse'  (MEG TUITE, ed., SMOKING MIRRORS, 2013)
Christopher Reynaga, 'Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree'  (GIGANOTOSAURUS, 1 JANUARY 2013)
Shivani Sivagurunathan, 'Lungs'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Wang Jinkang, 'The Beekeeper'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
All stories
Terh Agbedeh, 'Mango Republic'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Ah Ding, 'Milk'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Kofo Akib, 'A Starlit Night'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Mia Arderne, 'Pigs in Golfs'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
Ayodele Arigbabu, 'Cold Fusion'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Dan Asenland, 'Black Void'  (EASTLIT, APRIL 2013)
Afolabi Muheez Ashiru, 'Amphibian Attack'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'The Hole'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'The Iraqi Christ'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'Crosswords'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'Sarsara's Tree'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'The Dung Beetle'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Hassan Blasim, 'A Thousand and One Knives'  (THE IRAQI CHRIST, 2013)
Nyki Blatchley, 'The Triarchy's Emissary'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
Paul Blonsky, 'Doctor Was Madman, Family Man'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 6 MARCH 2013)
Yelena Calavera, 'The Dead City Blues'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
Can Xue, 'Shadow People'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Gregg Chamberlain, 'Jimmy Smith Has a Dinosaur'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 14 MARCH 2013)
Chen Qiufan, 'The Endless Farewell'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Paolo Chikiamco, 'Philippine Magic: A Course Catalogue'  (JASON ERIK LUNDBERG, ed., LONTAR: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION #1, 2013)
Zen Cho, 'Love in the Time of Utopia'  (JASON ERIK LUNDBERG, ed., LONTAR: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION #1, 2013)
Marc de Faoite, 'Hungry Ghost in the Machine'  (TROPICAL MADNESS, 2013)
Seth Dickinson, 'A Plant (Whose Name Is Destroyed)'  (STRANGE HORIZONS, 19 AUGUST 2013)
Dilman Dila, 'The Terminal Move'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
M.M. Domaille, 'Three Weddings and an Objection'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 27 AUGUST 2013)
Lara Elena Donnelly, 'The Witches of Athens'  (STRANGE HORIZONS, 7 OCTOBER 2013)
Okey Egboluche, 'Animals on the Run'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Jeremy Erman, 'In Dreams'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 15 AUGUST 2013)
Rayo Falade, 'Coming Home'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
David Gill, 'Upon a Sea of Searching'  (FARTHER STARS THAN THESE, 17 JANUARY 2013)
Alexandra Grunberg, 'Casting Call'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 9 JANUARY 2013)
Amir Hafizi, 'Forms and Functions'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Shane Halbach, 'Downsizing Pluto'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 JANUARY 2013)
Han Shaogong, 'Doomsday'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Hao Jingfang, 'The Last Brave Man'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Chip Houser, 'Flip Side'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 29 AUGUST 2013)
Fadzilshah Johanabas, 'The Cure'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Gareth D. Jones, 'Hiking in My Head'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 12 AUGUST 2013)
Ahmed A. Khan, 'A Mynah for the King'  (A MYNAH FOR THE KING, NOVEMBER 2013)
Ee Leen Lee, 'Future Gardens'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Su-Yee Lin, 'Thirteen Steps in the Underworld'  (TOR.COM, NOVEMBER 2013)
Ling Chen, 'A Story of Titan'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Melissa Mead, 'Swan Song'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 24 APRIL 2013)
Anil Menon, 'The Parrot's Tale'  (BILL CAMPBELL, EDWARD AUSTIN HALL, eds., MOTHERSHIP: TALES FROM AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND, 2013)
Mari Ness, 'Seaweed'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 14 AUGUST 2013)
Elka Ray Nguyen, 'The Yellow River'  (JASON ERIK LUNDBERG, ed., LONTAR: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION #1, 2013)
Dayang Noor, 'Rehab'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, 'Annihilation'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Temitayo Olofinlua, 'Metal Feet'  (AYODELE ARIGBABU, ed., LAGOS_2060, 2013)
Kate Osias, 'Departures'  (JASON ERIK LUNDBERG, ed., LONTAR: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION #1, 2013)
Andaiye Reeves, 'Othello Pop'  (BILL CAMPBELL, EDWARD AUSTIN HALL, eds., MOTHERSHIP: TALES FROM AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND, 2013)
Luc Reid, 'Uh… Guys?'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 9 SEPTEMBER 2013)
Frances Silversmith, 'Finally Free'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 12 SEPTEMBER 2013)
Antom Sim, 'Project Hydra'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
Martin John Stokes, 'Passing Visions'  (MARIUS DU PLESSIS, ed., RAVENSMOOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, 2013)
Eric James Stone, 'Love Is Orange, Love Is Red'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 28 AUGUST 2013)
LaShawn M. Wanak, 'Ebb and Flow'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 11 SEPTEMBER 2013)
Andrew J. West, 'The Mansion'  (EASTLIT, JUNE 2013)
Andrew J. West, 'Art of Evil'  (EASTLIT, AUGUST 2013)
Angeline Woon, 'The Domed City'  (FUTURA, 2013)
Xing He, 'The Arms, the Arms'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Yang Ping, 'Chronicles of the Mountain Dwellers'  (PATHLIGHT: NEW CHINESE WRITING, SPRING 2013)
Caroline M. Yoachim, 'A Crown of Woven Nails'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 26 AUGUST 2013)
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Pathlight: New Chinese Writing  (PATHLIGHT, SPRING 2013)
Ayodele Arigbabu, ed., Lagos_2060  (DADA BOOKS, 2013)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ  (COMMA PRESS, 2013)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
Marc de Faoite, Tropical Madness  (FIXI NOVO, 2013)
Marius du Plessis, ed., Ravensmoot: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction  (FOX & RAVEN, 2013)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
Jason Erik Lundberg, ed., Lontar: The Journal of SouthEast Asian Speculative Fiction  (MATH PAPER PRESS, 2013)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
Amir Muhammad, ed., Futura  (POSKOD.MY, 2013)

2014
Best of 2014
Honorable mentions
Dilman Dila, 'Lights on the Water'  (WILL MARTIN, KAT PHAN, eds., THE SHORT ANTHOLOGY: FICTION FROM PHOTOGRAPHY, 2014)
Andrew Kaye, 'Items Found in the Pocket of a God Who Abandoned His People'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 5 JUNE 2014)
Natan Dubovitsky (Vladislav Surkov), 'Without Sky'  (RUSSIAN PIONEER #46, MAY 2014)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'No Little Bobos'  (BROOKLYN VOL. 1 , APRIL 2014)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'The Wire Mother (Or Harry's Book of Love)'  (CONFRONTATION MAGAZINE #116, FALL 2014)
Fran Wilde, 'Welcome Briefing At The Obayashi-Ragan Youth Hostel'  (ABYSS & APEX #52, OCTOBER 2014)
All stories
Simon Bisson, 'a dozen tigers dancing in the light of the apocalypse'  (HUMMINGBIRD FUTURES, 2014)
Simon Bisson, 'Hummingbird Futures'  (HUMMINGBIRD FUTURES, 2014)
Simon Bisson, 'Virtual Mists'  (HUMMINGBIRD FUTURES, 2014)
Aliette de Bodard, 'Memorials'  (ASIMOV'S, JANUARY 2014)
Aliette de Bodard, 'The Two Sisters in Exile'  (IAN WHATES, ed., SOLARIS RISING 1.5, 2014)
Nicky Drayden, 'Earth's Destruction: A Crowdfunding Campaign'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 23 MAY 2014)
Tom Hanks, 'Alan Bean Plus Four'  (THE NEW YORKER, 27 OCTOBER 2014)
Loreen Heneghan, 'Things to Do If We Survive'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 30 DECEMBER 2014)
Malia Robin Kawaguchi, 'Phoenix Rising'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 JULY 2014)
Mur Lafferty, 'Produce 1:1-10'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 18 MARCH 2014)
Micheal Larson 3rd, 'The Skeleton Hand'  (FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE, 19 MARCH 2014)
Jonathan L. Miller, 'Switch'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 14 AUGUST 2014)
Ernesto Pavan, 'Inscription on a Monument to the Star Explorer'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 27 NOVEMBER 2014)
Marcia Richards, 'By Trixie Kennedy'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 2 JULY 2014)
Michael Louis Ruggiero, 'Liable'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 16 JULY 2014)
Erica L. Satifka, 'Five Days to a Better You With Parallel Worlds (Executive Edition)'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 10 SEPTEMBER 2014)
Memory Scarlett, 'Princess No More'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 10 JULY 2014)
Lavie Tidhar, 'The Time-Slip Detective'  (ETGAR KERET, ASSAF GAVRON, eds., TEL AVIV NOIR, 2014)
Ian Whates, 'Trending'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 13 NOVEMBER 2014)
Brian Yamauchi, 'Fall Forever'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 19 MAY 2014)
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Simon Bisson, Hummingbird Futures  (2014)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
Will Martin, Kat Phan, eds., The Short Anthology: Fiction from Photography  (THE SHORT ANTHOLOGY, 2014)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2015
Best of 2015
Ted Chiang, 'The Great Silence'  (E-FLUX JOURNAL, MAY 2015)
Lesley Nneka Arimah, 'What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky'  (CATAPULT, SEPTEMBER 2015)
Honorable mentions
Lesley Nneka Arimah, 'Second Chances'  (THE TOAST, FEBRUARY 2015)
Eric Brown, 'Fixation Morbidity'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 3 NOVEMBER 2015)
Paul Cornell, 'Find a Way Home'  (UNCANNY MAGAZINE #6, SEPTEMBER 2015)
T. L. Huchu, 'The War?'  (SHATTERED PRISM #1, DECEMBER 2015)
L. P. Lee, 'The Man Root'  (EASTLIT #26, JANUARY 2015)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'Day of the Builders'  (BEECHER'S MAGAZINE #5, SPRING 2015)
Ken Poyner, 'The Last of Time'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 5 NOVEMBER 2015)
All stories
Hassan Abdulrazzak, 'Kuszib'  (SHATTERED PRISM #1, DECEMBER 2015)
Amy Aderman, 'Three Questions'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 16 APRIL 2015)
Lesley Nneka Arimah, 'Who Will Greet You at Home'  (NEW YORKER, OCTOBER 2015)
Roberto Bommarito, 'Stasis'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 JULY 2015)
Margaret Carruthers, 'A Halloween Tale'  (JOANNE HALL, ed., NORTH BY SOUTHWEST, 2015)
Seth Chambers, 'The Shortest SF Story Ever'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 17 DECEMBER 2015)
Curtis C. Chen, 'It's Machine Code'  (THE JOURNAL OF UNLIKELY CRYPTOGRAPHY, FEBRUARY 2015)
Sarina Dorie, 'Dragons for Dummies'  (SHATTERED PRISM #1, DECEMBER 2015)
Aiden Doyle, 'How I Saved the Galaxy (on a Limited Budget)'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 10 AUGUST 2015)
Elliotte Rusty Harold, 'For Your Safety'  (SF COMET, JUNE 2015)
Andrew Peter Hickey, 'Ten Things You'll Only Get If You Were a 50's Kid'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 17 NOVEMBER 2015)
Gareth D. Jones, 'Englebert'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 AUGUST 2015)
KJ Kabza, 'Road Test'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 13 AUGUST 2015)
Simon Kewin, 'In the Detail'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 31 JULY 2015)
S.E. Lewis, 'Masks'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 15 JANUARY 2015)
William Tham Wai Liang, 'KAKAK'  (ZEN CHO, ed., CYBERPUNK MALAYSIA, 2015)
Ian Millsted, 'House Blood'  (JOANNE HALL, ed., NORTH BY SOUTHWEST, 2015)
Ian Millsted, 'Lye Close'  (JOANNE HALL, ed., NORTH BY SOUTHWEST, 2015)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'Leviathan'  (NOELLE Q. De JESUS, ed., FAST FOOD FICTION DELIVERY, 2015)
Melanie Rees, 'Dichotomous key to "animals" discovered by the first settlers on Quintana: Kepler-186F'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 14 JANUARY 2015)
Peter Roberts, 'Yellowed'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 2 JULY 2015)
Peter A. Schaefer, 'Perfectly Justified Response'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 13 JANUARY 2015)
Julian Mortimer Smith, 'The Hospice'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 6 AUGUST 2015)
Karin Terebessy, 'Economy'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 10 DECEMBER 2015)
Lavie Tidhar, 'Like Bogart'  (SHATTERED PRISM #1, DECEMBER 2015)
Isabel Yap, 'Milagroso'  (TOR.COM, 12 AUGUST 2015)
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SHATTERED PRISM #1, DECEMBER 2015   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2016
Best of 2016
Clara Chow, 'Tree House'  (DREAM STOREYS, 2016)
Teo Yi Han, 'Nesting in the Crevice of a Human Ribcage'  (PATRICIA KARUNUNGAN et al, eds., THIS IS HOW YOU WALK ON THE MOON, 2016)
Honorable mentions
Runa Chatterjee, 'A Whisper of Feathers'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 13 JANUARY 2016)
Paul Cornell, 'Don't You Worry, You Aliens'  (UNCANNY MAGAZINE #13, NOVEMBER 2016)
Michelle Ann King, 'God State'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 19 AUGUST 2016)
Aaron Moskalik, 'Ghosts in the Machine'  (NATURE, 7 JANUARY 2016)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'Dominic & Dominic'  (AGE OF BLIGHT, 2016)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'The Ghost of Laika Encounters a Satellite'  (AGE OF BLIGHT, 2016)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'The Quarantine Tank'  (AGE OF BLIGHT, 2016)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'History of the World'  (AGE OF BLIGHT, 2016)
Marge Simon, 'The Shutdown'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 28 JANUARY 2016)
Kanishk Tharoor, 'A United Nations in Space'  (SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS, 2016)
All stories
Lou J. Berger, 'The Sixth Diplomatic Expedition'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 15 FEBRUARY 2016)
Eric Brown, 'The Hunt'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 OCTOBER 2016)
Oliver Buckram, 'Presidential Cryptotrivia'  (MITHILA REVIEW, 4 MAY 2016)
Sarina Dorie, 'Fairy Godmother Protocols'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 11 FEBRUARY 2016)
Dragon à Plumes, 'Ephemeride'  (SHORT ÉDITION, 2016)
Nicky Drayden, 'Spiralize Me!'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 14 JANUARY 2016)
Andrew Neil McDonald, 'Repeat One'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 28 JULY 2016)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'There's No Relief as Wondrous as Seeing Yourself Intact'  (AGE OF BLIGHT, 2016)
Marge Simon, 'Serving the Blind Girl'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 15 SEPTEMBER 2016)
Tade Thompson, 'The Madwoman of Igbobi Hospital'  (INTERFICTIONS ONLINE, OCTOBER 2016)
Filip Wiltgren, 'Ghost of the Ashwydds'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 7 JANUARY 2016)
JY Yang, 'Secondhand Bodies'  (LIGHTSPEED, JANUARY 2016)
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Kristine Ong Muslim, Age of Blight  (UNNAMED PRESS, 2016)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2017
Best of 2017
Catherynne M. Valente, 'The Ordinary Woman and the Unquiet Emperor'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
E. Lily Yu, 'The Wretched and the Beautiful'  (MOTHERBOARD, 17 FEBRUARY 2017)
Honorable mentions
Lesley Nneka Arimah, 'What Is a Volcano?'  (WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY, 2017)
Bruce Boston, 'Biographical Sketch of an Unknown Surrealist'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 18 APRIL 2017)
Amal El-Mohtar, 'Anabasis'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Ploy Pirapokin, 'The Greenest Gecko'  (TOR.COM, 1 FEBRUARY 2017)
E. J. Swift, 'Weather Girl'  (JONATHAN STRAHAN, ed., INFINITY WARS, 2017)
All stories
Charlie Jane Anders, 'Margot and Rosalind'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Brooke Bolander, 'The Last of the Minotaur Wives'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
H. Burford-Reade, 'How Long Is a Time Loop?'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 17 APRIL 2017)
Sarina Dorie, 'Clickbait for Paranormals: Ten Signs You or Someone You Know May Be a Necrophiliac'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 12 APRIL 2017)
Maria Dahvana Headley, 'Astronaut'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Kameron Hurley, 'Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Cassandra Khaw, 'The Day They Found the Train'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 27 APRIL 2017)
Michele Markarian, 'Voices'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 19 APRIL 2017)
Seanan McGuire, 'Persephone'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Faisal Oddang, 'Sawerigading Came from the Sea'  (CHAN WAI HAN, ed., THE FIRST FIVE, 2017)
Kristine Ong Muslim, 'Equations of State'  (WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, JANUARY 2018, FIRST APPEARED IN DECEMBER 2017)
Pongwut Rujirachakorn, 'A Dying Business '  (CHAN WAI HAN, ed., THE FIRST FIVE, 2017)
Nisi Shawl, 'More Than Nothing'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, 'Two lists discovered folded in the wallet of space explorer Jorge Finnegan after the Reliant wreckage was recovered from Tau Ceti e'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 21 FEBRUARY 2017)
Michael Z. Williamson, 'Choices and Consequences'  (FORGED IN BLOOD, 2017)
Carrie Vaughn, 'Alchemy'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
Alyssa Wong, 'God Product'  (TOR.COM, 8 MARCH 2017)
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Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky  (RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2017)
Chan Wai Han, ed., The First Five  (ETHOS BOOKS, 2017)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2018
Best of 2018
Honorable mentions
Monica Barraclough, 'Beneath Me the Sky'  (FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE, 23 FEBRUARY 2018)
All stories
Caw Miller, 'Missing Choir'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 26 JULY 2018)
Zora Mai Quỳnh, 'One Thousand Cranes'  (TERRAFORM, 14 OCTOBER 2018)
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S.P. Somtow, My Cold Mad Father  (DIPLODOCUS PRESS, 2018)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2019
Best of 2019
Honorable mentions
Mimi Mondal, 'His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light'  (TOR.COM, JANUARY 2019)
All stories
Alasdair D. MacLeod, 'Code Tide Rising – The Library of Code'  (OCEAN SKETCHBOOK, 2019)
Alasdair D. MacLeod, 'Tomorrow's Light'  (OCEAN SKETCHBOOK, 2019)
Alasdair D. MacLeod, 'When the Gods Make Merit'  (OCEAN SKETCHBOOK, 2019, first appeared in Chiang Mai City News, unknown year)
Jamie Mason, 'Eclipsed Seasons'  (ABYSS & APEX MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2019)
E. Lily Yu, 'The Time Invariance of Snow'  (TOR, 2020)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
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Alasdair D. MacLeod, Ocean Sketchbook  (SPANKING PULP PRESS, 2019)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2020
Best of 2020
ZZ Claybourne, 'Cynthia Yau Is Exquisite'  (GALAXY'S EDGE #45, JULY 2020)
Honorable mentions
Kay Kenyon, 'The Dictator and the Butterfly'  (GALAXY'S EDGE #45, JULY 2020)
Charles Yu, 'The Only Living Girl on Earth'  (SCRIBD ORIGINALS, DECEMBER 2020)   READ IN FIRST EDITION
All stories
Prateek Arora, 'The Zoo By Night'  (SUBSTACK, 11 JANUARY 2020)
Vida Cruz, 'Have Your #Hugot Harvested at This Diwata-Owned Café'  (STRANGE HORIZONS, 17 AUGUST 2020)
M. E. Garber, 'Jancy8146 and the RealHouse'  (DAILY SCIENCE FICTION, 24 AUGUST 2020)
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uncredited, ed., Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project  (TOR, 2020)   READ IN FIRST EDITION

2021
Best of 2021
Honorable mentions
M. Navin, 'Mona Fandey's Cassette, or Gray Feather'  (WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, SEPTEMBER 2021)
All stories
Fatimah Busu, 'The Lovers of Muharram'  (WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, SEPTEMBER 2021)
Melakah Portuguese oral tradition, 'The Gut Demons'  (WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, OCTOBER 2021)
Carlos Norcia, 'Our Bodies Sing the Stars'  (MITHILA REVIEW #15, MARCH 2021)