What I read in December, and the best of 2013
First, what I finished last month:
“The Decent Thing” by Dex Fernandez
“Totality” by Tony Pisculli
“Goldfish” by Elizabeth Archer
“We Are All But Embers” by Gemma Noon
“Silence” by Lydia Waldman
“Followers” by S. R. Algernon
“The Clasp” by Jarod K. Anderson
“Asleep” by Jeremy Minton
“Patchwork Blouse” by James E Guin
“The Christmas Zombie” by Marissa James
Dominoes by John Boden
I didn’t read half of my 50-book goal, but I read a hell of a lot more short stories than in years past. We’ll see if I can keep that going. Below, my favorites.
“Unwanted” by Holly Jennings
“Little Red Robin Hood” by Melissa Mead
“Three Kisses” by Henry Szabranski
“Hungry” by Robert E. Stutts
“They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson
“I Heard You Got a Cat, I Heard You Named Him Charles” by M. Bennardo
Are You Listening? (The Fathomless Abyss) by J.M. McDermott
“The Sandman’s Dreams” by Jess Hyslop
“Legerdemain” by Gabriel Murray
“Puppet Man” by Cate Gardner
“Jumbo Gumdrop Serenade” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Pictures in Crayon” by Elizabeth Shack
“Airship Hope” by Laurel Amberdine
“Chasing Unicorns” by Terra LeMay
“City of Chrysanthemum” by Ken Liu
“Holy Diver” by Grá Linnaea
“Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall” by Usman T Malik
“Such Days Deserved” by Lee Hallison
“Squeak” by Emma Osborne
“Theories of Pain” by Rose Lemberg
“The Witch’s Cat” by Kalisa Ann Lessnau
“The Velveteen Rabbit Says Goodbye” by Melissa Mead
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
“Scraps” by Michael Haynes
“The World Will End in Fire” by K. C. Norton
“Wolf, or Faith in the Future” by Michelle Ann King
“The Dollmaker’s Grief” by Michelle M. Denham
“The Princess and Her Tale” by Mari Ness
Dominoes by John Boden