Short stories (and poems) I've enjoyed this spring

[mrissa]

 

Notable Escapes, Leah Bobet (Strange Horizons)

"At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand," Marie Brennan (Sunday Morning Transport)

"What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata," P Djeli Clark (The Book of Witches)

"John Hollowback and the Witch," Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)

The State Street Robot Factory, Claire Humphrey (Apex)

"Catechism for Those Who Would Find Witches," Kathleen Jennings (The Book of Witches)

Better Living Through Algorithms, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)

Still Life With Slain God and Lemon, Anne Leonard (Translunar Travelers Lounge)

Steve Irwin and the Unicorn, Theo Nicole Lorenz (Strange Horizons)

"So Spake the Mirrorwitch," Premee Mohamed (The Book of Witches)

A Chronicle of the Mole-Year, Christi Nogle (Strange Horizons)

Little Apocalypses, Aparna Paul (Reckoning)

There's a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands)

"Amrit," Kiran Kaur Saini (F&SF May/Jun)

Blooms, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

"Drained," Sonya Taaffe (Not One Of Us #74)

Construction Sacrifice, Bogi Takács (Lightspeed)

"The Cost of Doing Business," Emily Y Teng (The Book of Witches)

She Blooms and the World Is Changed, Izzy Wasserstein (Lightspeed)

"Manic Pixie Girl," AC Wise (The Other Side of Never)

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

"Blooms" reminded me of Mirable, by Janet Kagan, if only Kagan had realized it was a horror story.