Short stories I have liked since last time I did one of these posts
If WordPress drops my links out of this I will cry.
The Virgin Played Bass, by Maria Dahvana Headley (Uncanny)
A Hundred and Seventy Storms, by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)
The Spy Who Never Grew Up, by Sarah Rees Brennan (Uncanny)
Blue Flowers: Fragments, by Sofia Samatar (Uncanny)
Foreign Tongues, by John Wiswell (Flash Fiction Online)
Fear Death by Water, by Arkady Martine (Unlikely Story)
Skills to Keep the Devil in His Place, by Lia Swope Mitchell (Shimmer)
Palingenesis, by Megan Arkenberg (Shimmer)
Zombies in Winter, by Naomi Kritzer (Persistent Visions)
Playing Prometheus, by Frances Rowat (Persistent Visions)
Once I, Rose, by Merc Rustad (Daily Science Fiction)
A Dead Djinn in Cairo, by P. Djeli Clark (Tor.com)
The Stone Garden, by C. A. Hawksmoor (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Sweetest Skill, by Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Das Steingeschopf, by G. V. Anderson (Strange Horizons)
Please note as always that I make no pretense of having read everything in the field or even everything in a particular magazine, so if you feel like recommending a story you’ve liked in the comments section, by all means do so. The only schedule I keep on these posts is that I do one at the end of the year with everything from that year all in one big post, so if you’re hoping I’ll have the time to read a particular story and like it, now’s your chance to speak up.
Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux