Best American Fantasy

A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year. Hard truth about waste management / Sumanth Prabhaker -- Stolen father / Eric Roe -- Saffron gatherer / Elizabeth Hand -- Whipping / Julia Elliott -- Better angel / Chris Adrian -- Draco Campestris / Sarah Monette -- Geese / Daniel Courdriet -- Chinese boy / Ann Stapleton -- Flying woman / Meghan McCarron -- First kisses from beyond the grave / Nik Houser -- Song of the selkie / Gina Ochsner -- Troop [sic] of baboons / Tyler Smith -- Pieces of Scheherazade / Nicole Kornher-Stace -- Origin story / Kelly Link -- Experiment in governance / E.M. Schorb -- Next corpse collector / Ramola D -- Village of Ardakmoktan / Nicole Derr -- Man who married a tree / Tony D'Souza -- Fable with slips of white paper ... / Kevin Brockmeier -- Pregnant / Catherine Zeidler -- Warehouse of saints / Robin Hemley -- Ledge / Austin Bunn -- Lazy taekos / Geoffrey A. Landis -- For the love of Paul Bunyan / Fritz Swanson -- Accounting / Brian Evenson -- Abraham Loncoln has been shot / Daniel Alarcon -- Bit forgive / Maile Chapman -- End of narrative (1-29; or 29-1) / Peter LaSalle -- Kiss / Melora Wolff