2018 was an excellent year for original fiction at Strange Horizons! We published over two hundred thousand words in five novelettes and 42 short stories, including three themed special issues featuring original fiction, focusing on work by trans and nonbinary writers in January; by writers from India in April; and an extra-large issue with work by writers who are black, indigenous, and/or people of color from the Southeastern USA in July, the fiction selections for which were curated and edited by guest editors Sheree Renée Thomas, Rasha Abdulhadi, and Erin Roberts.

Short stories

• “Big Mother” by Anya Ow
• “Refugee; or, a nine-item representative inventory of a better world” by Iona Sharma
• “The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls” by Senaa Ahmad
• “Obscura” by Yoon Ha Lee
• “A Snow, A Flood, A Fire” by Jamie Berrout
• “Her Beautiful Body” by Adrienne Celt
• “On the Occasion of A Burial of Ernest Zach Ulrich” by Mary Kuryla
• “Early Morning Service” by Irette Y. Patterson
• “Of Warps and Wefts” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
• “A Very Large Number of Moons” by Kai Stewart
• “Princess Mine” by Darby Harn
• “Strange Waters” by Samantha Mills
• “All of Us Told, All of It Real” by Evan Dicken
• “Old Fighter Pilots” by Samuel Jensen
• “The RIght Way To Be Sad” by Shankar Gopalakrishnan
• “Things That Happened While We Waited For Our Magical Grandmother to Die—No. 39” by Kuzhali Manickavel
• “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” by Octavia Cade
• “Variations on a Theme from Turandot” by Ada Hoffman
• “Salt Lines” by Ian Muneshwar
• “Like Smoke, Like Light” by Yukimi Ogawa
• “Quietly Gigantic” by K. C. Mead-Brewer
• “The Metal Eater of Luminous Smoke” by Minsoo Kang
• “The Athuran Interpreter’s Flight” by Eleanna Castroianni
• “The Trees of My Youth Grew Tall” by Mimi Mondal
• “Dying Lessons” by Troy L. Wiggins
• “The People Who Sleep Beneath the Waves” by Malena Crawford
• “Hide Me In The Shadow of Your Wings” by Christopher Caldwell
• “Venus Witch's Ring” by Inda Lauryn
• “Strange Mercy” by Christopher R. Alonso
• “Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone” by Eden Royce
• “Copy Cat” by Alex Shvartsman and K.A. Teryna
• “Orphan Tsunami Heathens” by Tiera Greene
• “Seedlings” by Audrey R. Hollis
• “Mountaineering” by Leah Bobet
• “Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker” by Gabriela Santiago
• “The Names of Women” by Natalia Theodoridou
• “Asphalt, River, Mother, Child” by Isabel Yap
• “Some Personal Arguments in Support of the BetterYou (Based on Early Interactions)” by Debbie Urbanski
• “Missed Connections” by Alena Flick
• “Toothsome Things” by Chimedum Ohaegbu
• “How Pleasant The Red Bloom” by Lucy Harlow
• “Sequestration; Vitrification” by AJ Lucy

Novelettes

• “Chasing the Start” by Evan Marcroft
• “What Man Knoweth” by Russell Nichols
• “The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson” by Margaret Killjoy
• “The Palace of the Silver Dragon” by YM Pang
• “De MotherJumpers” by Celeste Rita Baker

Thank you for reading with us this year! We hope you love these stories as much as we do.