Here’s a list of all the short stories I read in the first half of 2025. I decided to break them up by month and then within each month by where they were published, with links where appropriate and available.
JANUARY
Lightspeed Magazine #176, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness” by B. Pladek
“The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire” by Will McMahon
“Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster” by Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko
“After the God Has Moved On” by Kate Elliott
“A Heap of Petrified Gods” by Adelehin Ijasan
“Bone and Marrow Woven Into Song” by Neon Yang
“I Eat the Sky For Us” by Vijayalaxmi Samal
“Chickenfoot Soup” by Marika Bailey
Uncanny #62 edited by Lynne Thomas and Michael Damien Thomas
“Kaiju Agonistes” by Scott Lynch
“Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson
Janie's Got A Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith ed. by Michael Bracken
“Sight For Sore Eyes” by John C. Bruening
Pulp Reality #5 edited by Charles F. Millhouse and Mary Ann Millhouse
“No Quarter” by Jim Beard
Nightmare #148 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“The Morning Room” by Katharine Tyndall
“They Bought a House” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
“Karabasan” by Leyla Hamedi
Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson edited by Jesse J. Holland
“Everyone's Hero” by Maurice Broaddus
“Exclusive Content” by Sheree Renee Thomas
The Dark #116 edited by Sean Wallace
“Four Questions with Something Like God” by Carlie St. George
“In the Blue Room” by Orrin Grey
“Lost You Again” by Ian Rogers
“Coffin Dancing” by Chris Kuriata
Do Not Go Quietly edited by Jason Sizemore & Leslie Connor
“Kill The Darlings (Silicone Sisters Remix)” by E. Catherine Tobler
Strange Locations edited by Marissa Van Uden
“See the Empress of Yesteryear!” by Violet Marr
“Echoes of Toyland on the Harmonic Coast” by Daisy Lyle
“The Ephemeral Conservatory of Dr. Carmen Sol Echeverria” by Silvathcus Riddle
“A Plea to Our Readers” by Steve Neal
“Those Who Stand Beneath Sagrada” by Akis Linardos
“For the Pilgrims of Mary Magdalena” by Salena Casha
“Late Exhibition” by Guilherme Vieira
“The Theatre Meridian” by Nicholas Jay
“Heroica” by Andrew Kao
“If Nothing, The Cloud Remembers” by Mwenya S. Chikwa
“The People's Republic of You” by Gordon Brown
You Glow In the Dark (single author collection)
“The Cave” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
“Atomito” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
FEBRUARY
Lightspeed Magazine #177, edited by John Joseph Adams
“It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand” by Lowry Poletti
“Books to Take At the End of the World” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“My Girlfriend is a Nebula” by David DeGraff
“An Omodest Proposal” by Andrew Dana Hudson
“Standardized Test” by Seoung Kim
“Some to Cradle, Some to Eat” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
“What We Don't Know About Angels” by Kristina Ten
You Glow In the Dark (single author collection)
“The Debt” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
“Chaco” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
“The Greenest Eyes” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
“The Narrow Way” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
“You Glow in the Dark” by Liliana Colanzi (trans. by Chris Andrews)
Dark Corners (Amazon short story collection, editor unknown)
“The Sleep Tight Motel” by Lisa Unger
Strange Locations edited by Marissa Van Uden
“The Urban Explorer: Site 1337” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“Wiki.StrangePlaces/TheLeaningSlabGallery” by Sarena Ulibarri
“Summer's Crimson Shadow” by Jonathan Wood
“A Review of the Myrkvi Black Sand Beach Tours” by Dale Rappineau
“Visitors' Guide: Personal Hygiene on Jones Atoll” by Kay Vaindal
“Fecal-Oral Tours Presents: Anusha's Bed and Breakfast” by Nina Miller
Nightmare #149 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“God of the Black Moon” by Dan Stintzi
Clarkesworld #220 edited by Neil Clarke
“When There Are Two of You: A Documentary” by Zun Yu Tan
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #424 edited by Scott H. Andrews
“Late Autumn on the Pilgrim's High Road” by Samuel Jensen
“The Garden Must Thrive” by Anaea Lay
The Deadlands Winter 2025 edited by E. Catherine Tobler
“Extreme Sports Club for Octogenarians” by Kate Lechler
Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025 edited by Robert Greenberger
“57 Seconds” by Christopher Priest
“Doc Dresden and the Lost Hollow” by Bobby Nash
“The Collar” by Charles Ardai
“She-Devil of Paris” by Win Scott Eckert
“Stories You Tell When You Get to Hell” by Paul Kupperberg
“Goldmark's Universe” by Elliot S! Maggin
“The Game of Wons and Toos” by Michael Jan Friedman
“The Thing in the Crate” by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
“The Bonds of Friendship” by Aaron Rosenberg
“The Tale of the Never Be” by Dan Abnett
“My Crush” by William F. Wu
“Gnat” by Russ Colchamiro
“Zayne Stormrunner and the Prince of Saturn” by Mary Fan
“ESPD” by Hildy Silverman
“Grey” by Liz Braswell
MARCH
Lightspeed Magazine #178, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library” by Cadwell Turnbull
“Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
“Message in a Babel” by Adam-Troy Castro
“Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition” by Rachael K. Jones
“Pure of Heart” by Jake Kerr
“Memories of Temperance” by Anya Ow
“The Shift” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“The Lexicon of Lethe” by Sunwoo Jeong
“Chide the Waves” by Seanan McGuire
Uncanny #63 edited by Lynne Thomas and Michael Damien Thomas
“10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills
“Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson
“Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down” by Wen-yi Lee
Clarkesworld #222 edited by Neil Clarke
“From Enceladus, with Love” by Ryan Cole
Strange Horizons February 2025 ed. by Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz, Hebe Stanton, Kathryn Weaver and Aigner Loren Wilson
“Ticket po mamser” by Caroline Hung
Nightmare #150 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“sharp house” by Samir Sirk Morato
Strange Locations edited by Marissa Van Uden
“1 Star, March 15th 2022” by M. Lopes da Silva
“Prometheus Live” by Sasha Brown
“The Food Truck at the Corner of the Street Where I Live That Everybody Sys is Overrated But Eat at Anyway” by Sek Han Foo
“A Disappointing Experience After 'Unintentionally' Consuming a Bioluminescent Mushroom in the Glow Wood” by Rachel Ashcraft
“A Travel Advisory For Your Past” by Ende Mac
“Welcome to Resurrection Lodge” by Chris Clemens
“Exploring the Tangents of Indus: The Mad Omnivorous Ruins of Lakir” by Amayah Perveen
“Ghost Tours of Eaden Marsh” by Marie Croke
“Ephemera” by Derrick Boden
“The-Town-Where-All-the-Residents-Are-Saints” by Avra Margariti
“Greendam” by Kurt Fawver
“Welcome Home - An Art Tour of Your New Apartment” by Ashley K. Frantik
“A Walk Down Emberley Road” by Amanda Van Rhyn
The Dark #118 edited by Sean Wallace
“Malo Malo Malo Malo” by Louis Inglis Hall
The Deadlands Winter 2025 edited by E. Catherine Tobler
“His Love's Ashes On His Tongue” by Monte Lin
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #427 edited by Scott H. Andrews
“Bind the Herbs to Bring the Shift” by R.Z. Held
Installment Immortality (InCryptid novel)
“Mourner's Waltz” by Seanan McGuire
Shivers Collection (Amazon Originals), editor unknown
“Jackknife” by Joe Hill
Kaleidotrope Winter 2025 edited by Fred Coppersmith
“The Diamond Mountain” by Helen De Cruz
“Once, Now, Always” by Ire Coburn
Apex Magazine #148 edited by Jason Sizemore
“One By One” by Lindz McLeod
APRIL
Lightspeed Magazine #179, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Does Harlan Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep” by Sarah Langan
“Meditations From the Event Horizon” by Deborah L. Davitt
“Talk: "The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”” by Domenica Phettleplace
“To Navigate the Night” by Rich Larson
“The Price of Miracles” by Nigel Faustino
“The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy with Tribal Marks On His Face” by Oyedotun Damilola Muess
“The Other River” by John Lasser
Stand-Alone E-Book
“The Bee Wife” by Francesca Forrest
Kaleidotrope Winter 2025 edited by Fred Coppersmith
“Hidden Meaning” by Lindsey Duncan
MAY
Lightspeed Magazine #180, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Rthing It Up: An Oral History” by Gene Doucette
“The Temporal Displacement of the Graves” by Russel Nichols
“Through the Machine” by P.A. Cornell
“The Meaning We Seek” by Nancy Kress
“Shadows on the Pavement” by R.P. Sand
“The Price of Manners” by Martin Cahill
“Ninnagan Says Remember” by Jonathan Olfert
Nightmare #152 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“Beak” by Ian Muneshwar
Amplitudes: Tales of Queer and Trans Futurity edited by Lee Mandelo
“The Republic of Ecstatic Consent” by Sam J. Miller
“Trans World Takeover” by Nat X Ray
“The Orgasm Doula” by Colin Dean
“The Shabbos Bride” by Esther Alter
“MoonWife” by Sarah Gailey
“Forever Won't End Like This” by Dominique Dickey
“They Will Give Us a Home” by Wen-yi Lee
“There Used to Be Peace” by Margaret Killjoy
“Fettle & Sunder” by Ramez Yoakeim
“Six Days” by Bendi Barrett
The Bloody Chamber (single-author collection)
“The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter
“The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” by Angela Carter
“The Tiger's Bride” by Angela Carter
“Puss-in-Boots” by Angela Carter
“The Snow Child” by Angela Carter
JUNE
Lightspeed Magazine #181, edited by John Joseph Adams
“The Twenty-One Second God” by Peter Watts
“Multi-Spatial Apartment Complex Malfunction Results in Body Horror” by Reyes Ramirez
“See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax” by Lowry Poletti
“All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” by Marissa Lingen
“Eyes Grown Thick on the World” by Will McMahon
“When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm” by Vanessa Fogg
“A Week at the Raven Feather Salon” by Carrie Vaughn
“My Mother, the Supervillain” by Benjamin Blattberg
Amplitudes: Tales of Queer and Trans Futurity edited by Lee Mandelo
“The They Whom We Remember” by Sunny Moraine
“When the Devil Comes From Babylon” by Maya Deane
“Copper Boys” by Jamie McGhee
“A Few Degrees” by Ash Huang
“Where The World Goes Sharp and Quiet” by Ewen Ma
“Circular Universe” by Ta-wei Chi (trans. Ariel Chu)
“The Garden of Collective Memory” by Neon Yang
“Sugar, Shadows” by Aysha U. Farah
“A Step Into Emptiness” by Aiki Mira (trans. by CD Covington)
“pocket futures in the present past” by Katharine Duckett
“Bang Bang” by Meg Elison
Apex Magazine Bonus Issue #1 edited by Jason Sizemore
“The Swap” by Lavie Tidhar
Nightmare #153 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“Here I Go Again” by Lindz McLeod
“Eleven Songs for Another Lover” by V.H. Chen
“Edgar Addison, the Author of Devorer (1862 - 1933)” by Ben Peek
Strange Horizons May 2025 ed. by Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz, Hebe Stanton, Kathryn Weaver and Aigner Loren Wilson
“Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse” by Mar Vincent
Kaleidotrope Spring 2025 edited by Fred Coppersmith
“Mabinogion” by Katie McIvor
“What's Fair to Offer in Exchange” by Seanan McGuire
The Dark #121 edited by Sean Wallace
“The Death of Abigail Goudy” by Neil Williamson
Amazon Original Stories (editor unknown)
“Abscond” by Abraham Verghese
Clarkesworld #225 edited by Neil Clarke
“Emily of Emerald Starship” by Ng Yi-Sheng
Sunday Morning Transport edited by Julian Yap and Fran C. Wilde
“Welcome 2 the Freedom Galaxy” by Maurice Broaddus
And there’s the first half of 2025! Tune in next week for the list of stories I read in July through December of 2025.