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This short story originally appeared on Slate.com, June 27th 2018, and was later anthologized in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen (2019), edited by Jonathan Strahan and Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) from Unnamed Press.

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This short story originally appeared in Tin House Magazine, Issue 72, Summer 2017, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, Issue 107, April 2019.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, July 2014. It can also be found in the anthologies Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects (2014), edited by John Joseph Adams, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams.

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Shirley Jackson, Tiptree, Lambda, and Locus Award-nominated Collection

In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice.

A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest.

Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, and anger becomes erotic. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.

Table of Contents:

• The Husband Stitch - (2014) - novelette
• Inventory - (2013) - short story
• Mothers - (2014) - short story
• Especially Heinous - (2013) - novella
• Real Women Have Bodies - novelette
• Eight Bites - (2017) - short story
• The Resident - novelette
• Difficult at Parties - (2012) - short story

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 12, September-October 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, edited by Paula Guran.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, April 2014. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (2015), edited by Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly.

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Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Granta, October 30, 2014. The story can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (2015), edited by Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly, The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (2015), edited by David Steffen, Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, edited by Mercedes Lackey, and The New Voices of Fantasy (2017), edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. The story is included in the collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017).

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This short story originally appeared in Fairy Tale Review, The Ocher Issue (2016), and was reprinted in Lightspeed, April 2018.

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Shirley Jackson Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017). The story can also be found in the anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, edited by N.K. Jemisin and John Joseph Adams.

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in 2018. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from tenderness to fear, each of these stories challenge the way we see our place in the cosmos. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 represents a wide range of the most accomplished voices working in science fiction and fantasy, in fiction, today -- each story dazzles with ambition, striking prose, and the promise of the other and the unencountered.

Table of Contents:

• Pitcher Plant - short story by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine)
• What Everyone Knows - short story by Seanan McGuire (Kaiju Rising II)
• The Storyteller's Replacement - short story by N. K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• Poor Unfortunate Fools - short story by Silvia Park (The Margins Transpacific Literary Project, November 1, 2018)
• Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women - short story by Theodore McCombs (Nightmare Magazine)
• Hard Mary - novelette by Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Variations on a Theme from Turandot - short story by Ada Hoffmann (Strange Horizons)
• Through the Flash - novelette by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black)
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good - novelette by LaShawn M. Wanak (FIYAH)
• The Kite Maker - short story by Brenda Peynado (Tor.com)
• The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington - short story by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine)
• When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis - short story by Annalee Newitz (Future Tense Fiction)
• Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung - novelette by Usman T. Malik (Nightmare Magazine)
• STET - short story by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine)
• What Gentle Women Dare - short story by Kelly Robson (Uncanny Magazine)
• Nine Last Days on Planet Earth - novelette by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com)
• Dead Air - novelette by Nino Cipri (Nightmare Magazine)
• Skinned - short story by Lesley Nneka Arimah (McSweeney’s #53, August 21, 2018)
• Godmeat - short story by Martin Cahill (Lightspeed Magazine)
• On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog - short story by Adam R. Shannon (Apex Magazine)
• Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories from 2018