AndyHat's 2005 Reading
This is a list of all short fiction published in 2005 that I've read. You can also view my recommended stories or my very top picks.
Stories available online are linked from this page. Please see my sources page for information on other publications.
Please send corrections or comments to web@andyhat.net.
Novellas
- "Mr. Nobody At All", Ann Beattie (McSweeney's #16)
- Retribution, Inc., Geoff Cooper (Cemetery Dance)
- Blue November Storms, Brian Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
- "The Follower", Damon Galgut (The Paris Review #174)
- "Her Destiny", Guy Hasson (InterNova #1)
- "O Great Rosenfeld!", Daniel Wallace (Amazon.com)
- Inside Job, Connie Willis (Subterranean Press)
Novelettes
- "The Stepfather", Chris Adrian (McSweeney's #18)
- "The Court of the Beast-Emperor", John Aegard (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "I've Been Told: A Story's Story", John Barth (Conjunctions #44)
- "The Lives of Rocks", Rick Bass (Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2005)
- "Piccadilly Circus", Chris Beckett (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "Home", Moshe Bennaroch (Book of Voices)
- "When You'll Be Ten", Eddy C. Bertin (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Bargains", Richard Lee Byers (Magic Tails)
- "God's Gut", Eduardo J. Carletti (InterNova #1)
- "Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee", Robert Coover (Conjunctions #44)
- "Dharma Bums", Jack Dann (Postscripts #4)
- "The Sky Green Box", Rudi Dornemann (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Home to Harlem", Roddy Doyle (McSweeney's #16)
- "The Chiaroscurist", Hal Duncan (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Marionettes on the Moon", J. Alan Erwine (Marionettes on the Moon and Other Stories)
- "Pretty Boy", Richard Ford (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "The Safety of Thorns", Craig Laurance Gidney (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Offertory", Amy Hempel (The Dog of the Marriage)
- "Black and Green and Gold", David Herter (Postscripts #3)
- "Happiness Reminders", Rachel Haley Himmelheber (McSweeney's #18)
- "Lost", Sarah A. Hoyt (Chronicle 10/05)
- "Go Tell the Phoenicians", Matthew Hughes (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "Weightlifting for Catholics", Mark Jacobs (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "On the Road to Godiva", Brian James (Book of Voices)
- "Third Day Lights", Alaya Dawn Johnson (Interzone 10/05)
- "Considering the Bittersweet End of Susan Falls", Adam Levin (McSweeney's #16)
- "Gears Grind Down", Sean Melican (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "The House on Kronenstrasse", Shira Nayman (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "Pharaoh's Cat", Lisanne Norman (Magic Tails)
- "Smother", Joyce Carol Oates (The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005)
- "Somoza's Dream", Daniel Orozco (McSweeney's #18)
- "At the End of the World", András Pályi (Out of Oneself)
- "Beyond", András Pályi (Out of Oneself)
- "Master Lao and the Flying Horror", Lawrence Person (Postscripts #4)
- "Haruspex", Tim Pratt (Shadows of Saturn #2)
- "Abducted Souls", Robert Reed (The Cuckoo's Boys)
- "Zima Blue", Alastair Reynolds (Postscripts #4)
- "A Perfect Stranger", Roxana Robinson (One Story #55)
- "The Injustice Collector", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (I, Alien)
- "So Much for Artemis", Patrick Ryan (One Story #53)
- "Cat Among the Pigeons", Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Magic Tails)
- "Tell Them, Please Tell Them", Maximilian Schlaks (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "Daniel Dreams", E. Sedia (Fortean Bureau 3/05)
- "The 'Velt", Lucius Shepard (Amazon.com)
- "The Tetrahedron", Vandana Singh (InterNova #1)
- "Ina Grove", R.T. Smith (The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005)
- "Saving Mars", Jason Stoddard (Interzone 10/05)
- "Book of the Flagellants", Mikal Trimm (Lone Star Stories 8/05)
- "Curious Green Colours Sleep Furiously", Stephen Volk (Postscripts #3)
- "The Snow Queen", Michelle West & Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Magic Tails)
- "My Hustlers", Edmund White (McSweeney's #18)
- "What Colour Is the Wind?", Aleksandar Ziljak (InterNova #1)
- "The Cell", Zoran Zivkovic (Postscripts #4)
Short Stories
- "No Cry of Distress in Our Streets", Alan Ackman (McSweeney's #18)
- "Agu Dunba", Alai (Conjunctions #44)
- "The Locust Blossoms", Alai (Conjunctions #44)
- "Terminós", Dean Francis Alfar (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Seven Times Seven", Dorothy Allison (Tin House #25)
- "Pick, I Am, I Am", James Allison (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "No One Here But Us Chickens", Steve Almond (Tin House #25)
- "The Rules", Andrew Foster Altschul (One Story #62)
- "My Little Angel", Kim Antieau (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "At the End of the Road", Robert Antoni (Conjunctions #44)
- "The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized", Ian Donnell Arbuckle (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "The Life of Birds", Jo Van Arkel (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "The Perfect Pair", Jenny Ashley (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Chicken Little Goes Too Far", Margaret Atwood (Harper's Magazine 10/05)
- "The Tent", Margaret Atwood (Harper's Magazine 10/05)
- "The Clients of Caralios", C.S. Barlow (Infinity Plus 6/05)
- "A Shade Less Perfect", Max Barry (Online 5/05)
- "Taste of Life", Paul Bartel (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Poor Devil", Charles Baxter (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "A Contestation of Greasepaint and Glory", Greg Beatty (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "A Fully Integrated Marketing Plan", Greg Beatty (Fictitious Force #1)
- "The Norwegian Women's Auxiliary Laughed, At First", Greg Beatty (Deathlings.com 200501-06)
- "Watercolors in the Rain", Beth Bernobich (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Walking West", Joel Best (Fictitious Force #1)
- "The Dress", Sam Binnie (Guardian 6/9/05)
- "Building a Taller Chair", Leah Bobet (Fortean Bureau 3/05)
- "Maenad", Angela Boord (Lone Star Stories 2/05)
- "The Best of the Evening", Bruce Boston (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "Vision", Hannah Wolf Bowen (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Aggie Leaves", Amy Bowers (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Circle Dance", Richard Bowes (Postscripts #3)
- "Because We Hear Voices", John Bowker (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Dragon Kings Play Songs of Love", Chaz Brenchley (Postscripts #3)
- "Anakoinosis", Tobias S. Buckell (I, Alien)
- "Proof Most Positive", Jerry Budinski (Deathlings.com 200507-12)
- "The Little Tailor", Stephanie Burgis (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Stitching Time", Stephanie Burgis (Fortean Bureau 3/05)
- "Pedagogy", Michael A. Burstein (I, Alien)
- "Frost Line", Frederick Busch (Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2005)
- "Flight to L.A.", Michael Canfield (Flytrap #4)
- "The Devil's Bridge", Edward Carmien (Magic Tails)
- "Home on the Rain", Jonathan Carroll (Conjunctions #44)
- "A Taste for Flowers", Jay Caselberg (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Fragments", Matthew Cheney (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Apex Predator", Kevin Cockle (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "(Just Like) Starting Over", Stephen Couch (Fictitious Force #1)
- "And I Will Sing a Lullaby", Paul Crilley (I, Alien)
- "To the Interstate", Rebecca Curtis (Conjunctions #44)
- "Thirst", Rachel Cusk (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "The Music You Never Hear", Quinn Dalton (One Story #61)
- "Dreaming with the Angels", Jack Dann (Postscripts #3)
- "After I Got Kicked Out and Before We Swam in the Dark", Pilar Davis (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "The Loaves and the Fishes", John DeChancie (I, Alien)
- "Watch", Stephen Dedman (Never Seen by Waking Eyes)
- "Resident Alien", Barbara Delaplace (I, Alien)
- "Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion", Charles de Lint (Magic Tails)
- "Lonely", Keith Demanche (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "Cabinet Number 67", Kris Dikeman (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "City on Fire", James S. Dorr (Shadows of Saturn #1)
- "Sinking Venice", Dawn Rae Downton (Descant #130)
- "On the Bones", Aidan Doyle (Borderlands #5)
- "New Boy", Roddy Doyle (McSweeney's #18)
- "The Author in Estonia", Rikki Ducornet (Conjunctions #44)
- "Koi", Rikki Ducornet (Conjunctions #44)
- "Mimi Ungerer and Janet", Rikki Ducornet (Conjunctions #44)
- "First Contract", Linda J. Dunn (I, Alien)
- "Bastogne V.9", Christopher East (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "Negative Spirits", Troy D. Ehlers (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "Driveway", Pia Z. Ehrhardt (McSweeney's #16)
- "The Camp Counselor", Julia Elliott (Conjunctions #44)
- "How We Avenged the Blums", Nathan Englander (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "ohtakemehomelord.com", Bernardine Evaristo (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Mudder Tongue", Brian Evenson (McSweeney's #16)
- "Kiss Franky Goodnight", John Ezzy (Borderlands #5)
- "Death on Elsewhere Street", Jaine Fenn (Shadows of Saturn #1)
- Her Life Sentence, Charles Coleman Finlay (Subterranean Press)
- "Elegy for the Square Deal Towns", Toiya Kristen Finley (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Suck It Up", Katie Flynn (Rhapsoidia Summer 2005)
- "Boatman's Holiday", Jeffrey Ford (Book of Voices)
- "Holt", Jeffrey Ford (Flytrap #4)
- "Ali Babette", Alan Dean Foster (Magic Tails)
- "Other", Bob Franklin (Borderlands #5)
- "Natural Selection", Laura Frankos (I, Alien)
- "God's Gift", Esther Freud (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Lonely Planet", Joshua Furst (Conjunctions #44)
- "Tattooed Ladies", C.A. Gardner (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "House Hunting", Ray Garton (Grave Tales #4)
- "The Piano Lesson", William H. Gass (Conjunctions #44)
- "A Question of Balance", Stephen Gauer (Descant #130)
- "Tasting Pebbles", Vanessa Gebbie (Rhapsoidia Winter 2005)
- "The Pursuit of Artemisia Guile", Scott Geiger (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "The Room", C.V. Gelvin (Deathlings.com 200507-12)
- "Xenoforming Earth", Tom Gerencer (I, Alien)
- "Pilot, Co-Pilot, Writer", Manuel Gonzales (One Story #66)
- "Nobodies", Adrienne Gormley (I, Alien)
- "The Belt", Theodora Goss (Flytrap #4)
- "Animal Magnetism", Daphne Gottlieb (Flytrap #4)
- "The Clockwork Atom Bomb", Dominic Green (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "You and I in the Year 2012", Eric Gregory (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Shining the Light", Neil Grimmett (Book of Voices)
- "Zoo Tornado", Carlos Guzman (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Minx Mouse Monster", Jennifer de Guzman (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "Phosphorescence", Tessa Hadley (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "The Light in Autumn's Leaves", Paul Haines (Borderlands #5)
- "Stump Louie", Lisa Halliday (The Paris Review #174)
- "Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier", Larry Hammer (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Kronia", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions #44)
- "No Mosquito Is a God", Jon Hansen (Lone Star Stories 6/05)
- "Girl Reporter", Stephanie Harrell (One Story #60)
- "City Visit", Adam Haslett (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "Festival", Fiona Heath (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Peacekeeper", Alan Heathcock (The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005)
- "What Can You Tell from the Title?", L.A. Heberlein (Rhapsoidia Winter 2005)
- "Thinking of Her Made Him Think of Her", Jack Helbig (Rhapsoidia Summer 2005)
- "The Dog of the Marriage", Amy Hempel (The Dog of the Marriage)
- "Jesus Is Waiting", Amy Hempel (The Dog of the Marriage)
- "Memoir", Amy Hempel (The Dog of the Marriage)
- "Debbie and the Deep Blue Sea", Samantha Henderson (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died", Samantha Henderson (Fortean Bureau 3/05)
- "Manuscript Found Written in the Paw Prints of a Stoat", Samantha Henderson (Lone Star Stories 4/05)
- "The Tailor and the Fairy", Samantha Henderson (Lone Star Stories 8/05)
- "Man's Best Friend", Patricia Highsmith (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Best New Horror", Joe Hill (Postscripts #3)
- "Harvesting", Nina Kiriki Hoffman (I, Alien)
- "Beyond Each Blue Event Horizon", Andrew Hook (Book of Voices)
- "Fever", Rhoda Huffey (Tin House #25)
- "Correspondence with a Breeder", Janis Ian (I, Alien)
- "Lucky", Denis Johnson (McSweeney's #16)
- "Jubilation, Florida", N.M. Kelby (One Story #54)
- "Time, As Seen in a Merry-Go-Round Blur", Michael Kelly (Lone Star Stories 2/05)
- "No Story At All", Scott Kelly (Book of Voices)
- "The Last Wave", Kay Kenyon (I, Alien)
- "A Bet", Etgar Keret (The Paris Review #174)
- "Degrees of Separation", Richard Kerslake (Borderlands #5)
- "The Red Phone", John Kessel (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Murders in the White Garden", Garry Kilworth (Postscripts #3)
- "Little Apocalypse", Matthew Kirby (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Water Babies", Greg Kishbaugh (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Let's Talk about Death, Baby", Sven Klöpping (InterNova #1)
- "Something About Spiders", Gwyn Knauer (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "Hopeful New Century", Jeff Kozzi (Deathlings.com 200501-06)
- "The Kingfish and the Tunguska Machine", Bill Kte'pi (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Hari Kunzru (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Braids of Glass", Jonathan Laden (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "The Hangman Isn't Hanging", Jay Lake (Lone Star Stories 6/05)
- "Like Cleveland, Without the Sparkle", Jay Lake (Fictitious Force #1)
- "The Lizard of Ooze", Jay Lake (Flytrap #4)
- "The Man Who Swallowed Mirrors", Jay Lake & Scott William Carter (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "The Scent of Cinnamon", Charles Lambert (One Story #64)
- "Among the Dead", Joel Lane (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Scenarios for Lee's Forgiveness", John Leary (One Story #63)
- "The Flame", Tanith Lee (Book of Voices)
- "Cerology", Tom Lee (Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2005)
- "Moon, Paper, Scissors", Yoon Ha Lee (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "You", Stephen Leigh (I, Alien)
- "Hot Pink", Adam Levin (McSweeney's #18)
- "Alien Ground", Anthony R. Lewis (I, Alien)
- "The Cold Just Does Things to You", Jolie Lewis (Tin House #25)
- "The Proprietress", Yiyun Li (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "Story Hunter", Derrick Lin (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "The Great Divorce", Kelly Link (One Story #59)
- "Quilt Cirq", Susan Urbanek Linville (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Hooked", Martin Livings (Borderlands #5)
- "Peak Time", Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro (InterNova #1)
- "Solipsister", Jason Erik Lundberg (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann", David Lunde (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Strings", David Mace (Interzone 10/05)
- "Room No. 12", Naguib Mahfouz (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "Beyond Mao", Barry N. Malzberg & Paul Di Filippo (Postscripts #4)
- "Cat Whisker Wound", Christina Manucy (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "The Student and the Professor", Myra Margolin (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "Pixie on a Pin", Melissa Marr (Flytrap #4)
- "How Beautiful, How Moving", Oscar Martens (Descant #130)
- "Creature for Hire", Paul E. Martens (I, Alien)
- "Young H Saved from Infamy", Carole Maso (Conjunctions #44)
- "Pinkie", Elizabeth Massie (A Little Magenta Book of Mean Stories)
- "The Shriner", Ryan Masters (Rhapsoidia Summer 2005)
- "Aquarius", Susan R. Matthews (I, Alien)
- "The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang", Sharon May (Tin House #25)
- "In Gavin Slough", Robert McCarthy (Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2005)
- "Some Terpsichore", Elizabeth McCracken (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "Constituent Work", Sandra McDonald (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "The Heirs of Cenpa", Sandra McDonald (Lone Star Stories 4/05)
- "The Writer's Orchard", Sandra McDonald (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Bleeders", Annie McFadyen (Tin House #25)
- "Threshold", Terry McGarry (I, Alien)
- "The First Thing That Happened", Jon McGregor (Conjunctions #44)
- "Wicked", Maureen F. McHugh (Mothers & Other Monsters)
- "Horse Years", Will McIntosh (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Soft Apocalypse", Will McIntosh (Interzone 10/05)
- "New York City Vs. The World", Lauren McLaughlin (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "Spring in the Shadows", Gordon C. McRae (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Paper Tigers", Melissa Mead (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Reality Goes On Here More or Less", Kat Meads (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Reading Chekhov", David Means (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "In the Woods", Karen Meisner (Flytrap #4)
- "A Spec(i)Fic Retrospective", Sean Melican (Fictitious Force #1)
- "The Doctor of Mental Health", Miranda Mellis (McSweeney's #16)
- "People Are Becoming Clouds", Joe Meno (McSweeney's #18)
- "One Day This Will All Be Yours", Philipp Meyer (McSweeney's #18)
- "Viva Mesopotamia", Nathaniel Minton (McSweeney's #16)
- "The Medicine Man", Kevin Moffett (McSweeney's #16)
- "The Widening", Carol Moldaw (Conjunctions #44)
- "Do No Harm", Brian E. Moore (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Imagine: Thinking the Unthinkable About Ronald Reagen by Lester Bangs", Edward Morris (Interzone 10/05)
- "The Last Bee Tree in Lynchburg County", Catherine M. Morrison (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Gardener of Heart", Bradford Morrow (Conjunctions #44)
- "Chance Traveler", Haruki Murakami (Harper's Magazine 7/05)
- "In a Bear's Eye", Yannick Murphy (McSweeney's #18)
- "The Age of Universal Deceit", Patrick Neate (Book of Voices)
- "Jakob Wywialowski and the Angels", Audrey Niffenegger (Amazon.com)
- "The Soul Surgeons", Gregory Norminton (Book of Voices)
- "The Cobwebbed Princess", Andre Norton (Magic Tails)
- "Sleeping Beauties", Jody Lynn Nye (Magic Tails)
- "Bad Habits", Joyce Carol Oates (McSweeney's #18)
- "*BD* 11 1 86", Joyce Carol Oates (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "The Lost Brother", Joyce Carol Oates (Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2005)
- "Polenta", Marc Paoletti (Book of Voices)
- "An Examination into the Chinese Made Roman Toga", Ben Peek (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "Shadder", Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "The Perfect Lie", D.B.C. Pierre (Guardian 1/18/05)
- "There Is No Real Name for Where We Live", Hannah Pittard (McSweeney's #16)
- "A Treatise on Fewmets", Sarah Prineas (Lone Star Stories 8/05)
- "Winged Victory", Sarah Prineas (Lone Star Stories 2/05)
- "Hoof-Boots & Bolo Tie", Annie Proulx (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Animals Here Below", Eric Puchner (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "Electric Fence", Gary Quinn (Book of Voices)
- "Suede This Time", Jean Rabe (Magic Tails)
- "Dasi", Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar (Book of Voices)
- "Yuhana Am", David Redd (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "The Road to Damascus", Steve Redwood (Rhapsoidia Winter 2005)
- "All the Pigs' Houses", Mickey Zucker Reichert (Magic Tails)
- "The Railway Nurse", Nelly Reifler (McSweeney's #18)
- "Cerenkov Blue", Ernie Reimer (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Diary of a Galactic Émigré", Laura Resnick (I, Alien)
- "Me", Mike Resnick (I, Alien)
- "Another Day", Mark Rich (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Ballerina Ballerina", Eric Rickstad (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Bargonns Can Swizzle", Mercurio D. Rivera (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "The Skeptic", Jennifer Roberson (I, Alien)
- "And Future King", Adam Roberts (Postscripts #4)
- "Within This Present Time", Karen M. Roberts (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Life Happens", Ralph Roberts (I, Alien)
- "Aftermath", Bruce Holland Rogers (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "Star", Bruce Holland Rogers (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "Sangre", Tim Rook (Descant #130)
- "Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch", Rudy Rucker (Interzone 10/05)
- "After You Come Others", Michael Samerdyke (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "Acts", William Sanders (I, Alien)
- "The Cuckoo in the Clock", Brett Alexander Savory & Paul Tremblay (Deathlings.com 200507-12)
- "The Eagle Has Landed", Robert J. Sawyer (I, Alien)
- "How Far We Fall from Grace", Michelle Scalise (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Three Urban Folk Talks", Eric Schaller (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "A Good Hair Day in Anarchy", Ken Scholes (Lone Star Stories 6/05)
- "Miss", David Schuman (Conjunctions #44)
- "Flash Bison", David J. Schwartz (Rhapsoidia Winter 2005)
- "Breathing Fermatas", Aaron Scott (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "The Bedtime Story", Edward Serken (Magic Tails)
- "The Easy Way", Harry Shannon (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Sick Days", Heather Shaw (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "Trample the Dead, Hurdle the Weak", Jim Shepard (Harper's Magazine 9/05)
- "Cat-Friend", Josepha Sherman (Magic Tails)
- "What Must Be", Josepha Sherman (I, Alien)
- "Apocrypha of the Midwest", J.M. Shiveley (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Never Far from Mind", David B. Silva (A Little White Book of Lies)
- "Practical Villainy", Janni Lee Simner (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Like Birds in the Rain", Marge Simon (Sybil's Garage #2)
- "The Sign in the Window", Vandana Singh (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Director's Cut", George Singleton (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "Three Creations", Jeremy Adam Smith (Flytrap #4)
- "Little Sorrel", R.T. Smith (Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2005)
- "Sally Moore", Yolande Sorores (Book of Voices)
- "We Lived in a House", Cara Spindler (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", Justin Stanchfield (On Spec Spring 2005)
- "Hydroplane", Susan Steinberg (Conjunctions #44)
- "Running Years", Jessica Stong (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Triceratops Summer", Michael Swanwick (Amazon.com)
- "On the Blindside", Sonya Taaffe (Flytrap #4)
- "White Shadows", Sonya Taaffe (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "The Emperor's Backscratcher", Anna Tambour (Infinity Plus 4/05)
- "Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts", Anna Tambour (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Love Sucker", Jeff Tannen (Rhapsoidia Summer 2005)
- "The Ambush", Donna Tartt (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "Buddha's Fall", M. Thomas (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "Hard Time", Mark W. Tiedemann (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "The Rat Sprayer", Ezra Titus (Tin House #25)
- "Famous Blue Raincoat", Colm Toibin (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "The Dead Are Only Sleeping", Rose Tremain (Guardian 6/25/05)
- "For Cassie", Zoe Trope (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "Snow in April", Zoe Trope (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Hi, Colonic", Harry Turtledove (I, Alien)
- "Voyagers", Frederic Tuten (Conjunctions #44)
- "Deb Olin Unferth", Deb Olin Unferth (McSweeney's #18)
- "Malaria", Deb Olin Unferth (Conjunctions #44)
- "The Psalm of the Second Body", Catherynne M. Valente (Book of Voices)
- "The Secret Life of Librarian Bob Scheffel", Jeff VanderMeer (Flytrap #4)
- "Away", Sara Veglahn (Conjunctions #44)
- "Capable Motion", Sara Veglahn (Conjunctions #44)
- "Avery Dog Has His Day", Steve Verge (Deathlings.com 200501-06)
- "Home Security", Tim Waggoner (Cemetery Dance #52)
- "Ceasefire", John Walters (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "The Oracle of Brick and Bone", Kyla Ward (Borderlands #5)
- "Slow Mergers of Local Stars", Paul West (Conjunctions #44)
- "Walking to Tahiti", Marianne Westphal & David J. Schwartz (The Dogtown Review #2)
- "Far from Home", Jamie Wild (Chronicle 6/05)
- "The Cat That Loved Shakespeare", Jack Williamson (Chronicle 7/05)
- "The Euonymist", Neil Williamson (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "He Flies Faster Than Cellophane", Elise Winn (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "Comber", Gene Wolfe (Postscripts #3)
- "Dragons Just Wanna Have Fun", Paul Woodlin (Fictitious Force #1)
- "The Harps of the Titans", Sharon E. Woods (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Mouse Pad", Wu Yan (InterNova #1)
- "Aortic Insubordination", Batya Swift Yasgur & Barry N. Malzberg (I, Alien)
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