The Best American Short Stories 2018 Read online

Quarantine. The New Yorker, January 30.

  Risk Management. Kenyon Review, vol. XXXIX, no. 4.

  ORRINGER, JULIE

  Neighbors. Paris Review, no. 221.

  OTA, E. K.

  Silk and Dust. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no.1.

  PEARSON, JOANNA

  Fox Foot. Mississippi Review, vol. 45, nos. 1 & 2.

  PELISH, ALYSSA

  The Pathetic Fallacy. New England Review, vol. 38, no. 4.

  PENCE, CHARLOTTE, AND ADAM PRINCE

  So Far. Sewanee Review, vol. CXXV, no. 3.

  PEYNADO, BRENDA

  The Man I Could Be. Hunger Mountain, no. 21.

  The Whitest Girl. Ecotone, no. 23.

  PIETRZYK, LESLIE

  Happy Birthday in a Week. Southern Indiana Review, vol. 24, no. 1.

  POWER, SUSAN

  Backseat Rider. Water~Stone Review, vol. 20.

  PRICE, ADAM O’FALLON

  A Natural Man. Paris Review, 22.

  PUCHNER, ERIC

  Expression. Hopkins Review, vol. 10, no. 1.

  QUADE, KIRSTIN VALDEZ

  Christina the Astonishing (1150–1224). The New Yorker, July 31.

  QUINN, MOLLY

  A Danger to Ourselves. Iowa Review, vol. 47, no. 1.

  RECONCO, ANDRÉS

  La Garroba. Lunch Ticket.

  REYN, IRINA

  The Western Ones. Ploughshares, vol. 42, no. 4.

  ROBERTSON, ELIZA

  The Pirates of Penance. Masters Review, vol. V.

  ROTH, MATTHUE

  One Part Finger. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no. 1.

  ROUPENIAN, KRISTEN

  Cat Person. The New Yorker, December 11.

  SARVIS, CALEB MICHAEL

  An Unfaded Black. Oyster River Pages, August.

  SCOTT, RION AMILCAR

  The Nigger Knockers. New York Tyrant.

  SHARMA, AKHIL

  You Are Happy? The New Yorker, April 17.

  SHEPARD, KAREN

  Rescue. Tin House, vol. 19, no. 1.

  SITTENFELD, CURTIS

  Show Don’t Tell. The New Yorker, June 5 & 12.

  SKINNER, JOSÉ

  Peons. Isthmus, no. 6.

  SWEARINGEN, RACHEL

  A Habit of Seeing. Fifth Wednesday, no. 20.

  TALLENT, ELIZABETH

  Rawness. Threepenny Review, 150.

  THAMMAVONGSA, SOUVANKHAM

  How to Pronounce Knife. Granta, 141.

  TSENG, JENNIFER

  To Drink from the Lion’s Mouth. Tin House, vol. 18, no. 3.

  UPTON, LEE

  Portrait of the Artist’s Son. Idaho Review, no. 16.

  VAPNYAR, LARA

  Deaf and Blind. The New Yorker, April 24.

  WALLACE, DANIEL

  Sea Girls. Tin House, vol. 18, no. 4.

  WALTER, JESS

  Fran’s Friend Has Cancer. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no. 1.

  WARD, LIZA

  The Shrew Tree. ZYZZYVA, no. 110.

  WASHINGTON, BRYAN

  610 North, 610 West. Tin House, vol. 19, no. 1.

  WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR

  JB + FD. Harper’s, February.

  Writing Teacher. The New Yorker, January 22.

  American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories

  Able Muse Review

  African American Review

  AGNI

  Alaska Quarterly Review

  Alligator Juniper

  The American Scholar

  American Short Fiction

  Antioch Review

  Appalachian Heritage

  Arcadia

  Arkansas Review

  Arts & Letters

  Ascent

  Asterix Journal

  The Atlantic

  Baltimore Review

  The Believer

  Bellevue Literary Review

  Bennington Review

  Blackbird

  Black Warrior Review

  Bomb

  Booth

  Bosque

  Boston Review

  Boulevard

  Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers

  Briar Cliff Review

  Bright Eight

  BuzzFeed

  Callaloo

  Carolina Quarterly

  Carve Magazine

  Catamaran Literary Reader

  Catapult

  Chattahoochee Review

  Chautauqua

  Cherry Tree

  Chicago Quarterly Review

  Chicago Tribune, Printers Row

  Cimarron Review

  Cincinnati Review

  Colere

  Colorado Review

  Commentary

  The Common

  Confrontation

  Conjunctions

  Consequence

  Copper Nickel

  Cossack Review

  Crab Orchard Review

  Crazyhorse

  Cream City Review

  CutBank

  The Dalhousie Review

  December

  Delmarva Review

  Denver Quarterly

  Descant

  Dogwood

  Ecotone

  805 Lit + Art

  Electric Literature

  Eleven Eleven

  Emrys Journal

  Epiphany

  Epoch

  Event

  Fairy Tale Review

  Fantasy and Science Fiction

  Faultline

  Fence

  Fiction

  Fiction International

  The Fiddlehead

  Fifth Wednesday

  Five Points

  The Flexible Persona

  Florida Review

  Flying South

  Foglifter

  The Forge

  Four Way Review

  Fourteen Hills

  Freeman’s

  Gamut Magazine

  Gemini

  Georgia Review

  Gettysburg Review

  Glimmer Train

  Gold Man Review

  Grain

  Granta

  Green Mountains Review

  Greensboro Review

  Grist

  Guernica

  Gulf Coast

  Hanging Loose

  Harper’s Magazine

  Harvard Review

  Hayden’s Ferry Review

  High Desert Journal

  Hopkins Review

  Hotel Amerika

  Hudson Review

  Huizache

  Hunger Mountain

  Idaho Review

  Image

  Indiana Review

  Iowa Review

  Iron Horse Literary Review

  Isthmus

  Jabberwock Review

  Joyland

  Juked

  Kenyon Review

  Kweli Journal

  Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

  Lake Effect

  Lalitamba

  The Lenny Letter

  Lilith

  Literary Review

  Lit Mag

  Little Patuxent Review

  Louisiana Literature

  Louisville Review

  Lunch Ticket

  Madison Review

  Make

  Manoa

  Mary

  Massachusetts Review

  Masters Review

  McSweeney’s Quarterly

  Memorious

  Meridian

  Michigan Quarterly Review

  Mid-American Review

  Midwestern Gothic

  Minnesota Review

  Mississippi Review

  Missouri Review

  Montana Quarterly

  Moon City Review

  Mount Hope

  n + 1

  Narrative Magazine

  Natural Bridge

  New England Review

  New Guard

  New Haven Review

  New Letters

  New Madrid

  New Ohio Review
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  New Quarterly

  New South

  The New Yorker

  Nimrod International Journal

  Ninth Letter

  Noon

  The Normal School

  North American Review

  North Carolina Literary Review

  North Dakota Quarterly

  Notre Dame Review

  Ocean State Review

  The Offing

  One Story

  Opossum

  Orion

  Oxford American

  Oyster River Pages

  Pakn Treger

  PANK

  Paper Darts

  Paris Review

  Passages North

  Pembroke Magazine

  Pigeon Pages

  The Pinch

  Pleiades

  Ploughshares

  PoemMemoirStory

  Portland Review

  Post Road

  Potomac Review

  Prairie Fire

  Prairie Schooner

  Prism International

  Profane

  Provincetown Arts

  Provo Canyon Review

  A Public Space

  Puerto del Sol

  Pulp Literature

  Raritan

  Redivider

  Reservoir

  River Styx

  Roanoke Review

  Room Magazine

  Ruminate

  Salamander

  Salmagundi

  Santa Monica Review

  Saturday Evening Post

  Sewanee Review

  Sierra Nevada Review

  Sixfold

  Slice

  Solstice

  Southampton Review

  South Carolina Review

  South Dakota Review

  Southeast Review

  Southern Humanities Review

  Southern Indiana Review

  Southern Review

  Southwest Review

  Sou’wester

  StoryQuarterly

  StringTown

  Subtropics

  Summerset Review

  The Sun

  Sycamore Review

  Tablet

  Tahoma Literary Review

  Tampa Review

  Terraform

  Territory

  Third Coast

  This Land

  Threepenny Review

  Timber Creek Review

  Tin House

  The Tishman Review

  Transition

  TriQuarterly

  The Turnip Truck(s)

  upstreet

  Vermont Literary Review

  Vice

  Virginia Quarterly Review

  War, Literature, and the Arts

  Washington Square Review

  Water~Stone Review

  Waxwing Magazine

  Weber Studies

  West Branch

  Western Humanities Review

  Whitefish Review

  Wildness

  Willow Springs

  Wired

  Witness

  World Literature Today

  Yale Review

  Yellow Medicine Review

  Your Impossible Voice

  Zoetrope: All-Story

  ZYZZYVA

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  About the Editors

  Roxane Gay, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, which received the NBCC Members’ Choice Award; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. She is also the editor of the New York Times best-selling Not That Bad. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, among others. She is the author of the World of Wakanda series for Marvel.

  Heidi Pitlor, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

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