These are not sorted by anything but authorial last name. There are novellas, there are flash pieces. If you’re wondering why there’s a slight difference in formatting, the answer is that the ones I read early last year got formatted slightly differently, and I am too exhausted in the aftermath of my appendectomy + shingles to reformat everything to match each other, so as long as the link works I figured we could cope. I did try to find the places where autodefect had changed people’s names to adjectives or other charming alterations. Onward! Enjoy short fiction! I have already started compiling my 2020 list….
Morgan Al-Moor, The Beast Weeps With One Eye (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life (Tor.com)
Elizabeth Bear, Erase, Erase, Erase (F&SF)
Elizabeth Bear, A Time To Reap (Uncanny)
M. E. Bronstein, Elegy of a Lanthornist (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Octavia Cade, The Feather Wall (Reckoning)
Chen Qiufan, Coming of the Light (Broken Stars)
John Chu, Beyond the El (Tor.com)
John Chu, Probabilitea (Uncanny)
Deborah Coates, Girls Who Never Stood a Chance (F&SF)
Tina Connolly, A Sharp Breath of Birds (Uncanny)
Nicky Drayden, The Rat King of Spanish Harlem (Fiyah Issue 9)
Meg Elison, Hey Alexa (Do Not Go Quietly)
Ruthanna Emrys, Cassandra Draws the Four of Cups (Strange Horizons)
Theodora Goss, The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly (Uncanny)
A. T. Greenblatt, Give the Family my Love (Clarkesworld)
Gregory Neil Harris, “The Midnight Host” (Fiyah Issue #12)
Alix E. Harrow, Do Not Look Back, My Lion (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Amanda Hollander, Madness Afoot (F&SF)
Osahon Ize-Iyamu, More Sea Than Tar (Reckoning)
Rachael K. Jones, Oil Under Her Tongue (Do Not Go Quietly)
Cassandra Khaw, What We Have Chosen to Love (Do Not Go Quietly)
Jonathan Kincaid, The Ishologu (Fiyah Issue 9)
Carrie Laben, Postcards from Natalie (The Dark)
Jon Mayo, A House With a Home (Anathema)
Jo Miles, Your Guide to the Ever-Shrinking Solitude on Planet Earth (Nature)
Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light (Tor.com)
Ada Nnadi, Tiny Bravery (Omenana)
Karen Osborne, The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power (Uncanny)
Charles Payseur, Undercurrents (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Aimee Picchi, Search History for Elspeth Adair, Age 11 (Daily Science Fiction)
Rivqa Rafael, Whom My Soul Loves (Strange Horizons)
Jenn Reese, A Mindreader’s Guide to Surviving Your First Year at the All-Girls Superhero Academy (Uncanny)
Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, This Is Not My Adventure (Uncanny)
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor writing as A. Merc Rustad, With Teeth Unmake the Sun (Lightspeed)
Nibedita Sen, Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island (Nightmare)
D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Nutrition Facts (Uncanny)
Rachel Swirsky & P.H. Lee, Compassionate Simulation (Uncanny)
Lavie Tidhar, Venus in Bloom (Clarkesworld)
Eugenia Triantafyllou, We Are Here to Be Held (Strange Horizons)
Greg van Eekhout, Big Box (Uncanny)
Nghi Vo, Boiled Bones and Black Eggs (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Ginger Weil, The Day Our Ships Came In (Daily SF)
David Wellington, “Mummy Fever” (Spirits Unwrapped)
Kathryn Weaver, Darling (Metaphorosis)
John Wiswell, The Lie Misses You (Cast of Wonders)
John Wiswell, The Tentacle and You (Nature Futures)
Fran Wilde, A Catalog of Storms (Uncanny)
Fran Wilde, The Unseen (Fireside)
Xia Jia, Goodnight Melancholy (Broken Stars)
Caroline Yoachim, Just Coffee, Every Morning (Daily Science Fiction)
Caroline Yoachim, A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves (Daily Science Fiction)