Last week on Sunday Shorts I listed all of the stories I read in January through June of 2025, with links (where possible) to where they could be found. Today I present the list of all the short stories I read in the second half of 2025. As with the first post, I decided to break them up by month and then within each month by where they were published. I am really going to try to do monthly round-ups instead of waiting until the end of the year.
JULY
Lightspeed Magazine #182, edited by John Joseph Adams
“The Lord of Mars” by Meghan McCarron
“How to Win Against the Robots” by Katherine Crighton
“Domestic Disputes” by Naomi Kanakia
“Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide” by Leah Cypess
“What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City” by Sadoeuphemist
“A Dish Best Served Cold, or, an Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
“Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective” by Spencer Nitkey
“You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb” by Paul Crenshaw
Nightmare #154 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“Asking For It” by Kristi DeMeester
“The Hearth” by Benjamin Percy
Clarkesworld #226 edited by Neil Clarke
“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna
The Dark #122 edited by Sean Wallace
“Skin and Bones” by Gary McMahon
The Shivers (Amazon Originals) (editor unknown)
“The Indigo Room” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Letter Slot” by Owen King
“The Blanks” by Grady Hendrix
“Night and Day in Misery” by Catriona Ward
Kaleidotrope Summer 2024 edited by Fred Coppersmith
“How to Create a God” by Rachel Meresman
AUGUST
Lightspeed Magazine #183, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Five Dispatches From Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-Battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis” by David Anaxagoras
“Feast of Famine” by Adam-Troy Castro
“The Dream Tourists” by Sarah Langan
“To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter” by V.M. Ayala
“It Might Be He Returns” by Fatima Taqvi
“Dad Went Out to Get the Milk” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
“Savannah and the Apprentice” by Christopher Rowe
“Anti-Capitalism vs. The Man of Flowers” by Naomi Kanakia
“Those Three Girls From Rush's Bend” by Seanan McGuire
Carribean Phantom and Other Stories (single-author collection)
“The Ghost Crutches” by Mary Gann
“The Wanted Bone” by Mary Gann
“Juan” by Mary Gann
“On Board the Argolla” by Mary Gann
“The Winking Eye” by Mary Gann
“There Is A Way” by Mary Gann
“The Governor's Visit” by Mary Gann
SEPTEMBER
Lightspeed Magazine #184, edited by John Joseph Adams
“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by Kel Coleman
“The Place I Came To” by Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zarko
“The Girlfriend Experience” by C.Z. Tacks
“City of One” by Stephen S. Power
“Beginning Before and After The End” by Jake Stein
“Apeiron” by Cadwell Turnbull
“On An Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting” by Bogi Takacs
“Human Voices” by Isabel J. Kim
“Married in Gray” by Seanan McGuire
Nightmare #156 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“Autogas Ferryman” by Champ Wonsatayanont
Carribean Phantom and Other Stories (single-author collection)
“Across the Bluff” by Mary Gann
“The Bungalow of Mystery” by Mary Gann
“Outwitting Justice” by Mary Gann
“What Was It?” by Mary Gann
“What Happened to Jim MacNarth” by Mary Gann
“The Black Bat” by Mary Gann
“Dr. Holm's Unsolved Problem” by Mary Gann
“Xcunya” by Mary Gann
“Orchid Hall” by Mary Gann
“Heirlooms” by Mary Gann
“Admonition” by Mary Gann
“The Tide of Retribution” by Mary Gann
“Port Quin” by Mary Gann
“Little Pitchers” by Mary Gann
“The Little Wood” by Mary Gann
Black Hole Heart and Other Stories (single-author collection)
“Black Hole Heart” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Songs of the Snow Whale” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“The Errata” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Untitled” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Morpheus” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Copy Cat” by K.A. Teryna and Alex Shvartsman
“The Chartreuse Sky” by K.A. Teryna and Alexander Bachilo
“The Jellyfish” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“No One Ever Leaves Port Henri” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Madame Felides Elopes” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Anatoly Belilovsky)
“The Tin Pilot” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“Lajos and His Bees” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
“The Farctory” by K.A. Teryna (Translator: Alex Shvartsman)
OCTOBER
Lightspeed Magazine #185, edited by John Joseph Adams
“O Mechfighter, O Starfighter” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
“The Porniest Porn in Porntown” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Everyone Hates the Auditor” by Megan Chee
“Thaw” by An Owomoyela
“At the Bottom of the Bonfire” by Martin Cahill
“Dirge and Gleam” by Micah Dean Hicks
“Dating Fortune” by Sean McMullen
“Drosera regina” by A.L. Goldfuss
Asimov's Science Fiction #596/597 edited by Sheila Williams
“Frankenstein's Book Launch” by Karen Heuler
“Seek Sweet Safety” by Seanan McGuire
Nightmare #157 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
“Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead” by Sam J. Miller
“The Version of Yourself That You're Better Off Without” by Aimee Ogden
Silver and Lead (October Daye Novel)
“Seas and Shores” by Seanan McGuire
Complete Tales and Poems (single-author collection)
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
NOVEMBER
Lightspeed Magazine #186, edited by John Joseph Adams
“How to Set Up Your Mourning Robot” by Angela Liu
“Elegy For Zephyr One” by Gene Doucette
“Visible Damage” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“Operation: Grapevine” by Joel W.D. Buxton
“In the Zone” by Lisa M. Bradley
“Beneath the Umdlebe Tree; or, A Vegetable Love Story” by Modupeoluwa Shelle
“How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl” by Tina S. Zhu
“The Cold Burning Light of Her” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“What We Forget, What We Forgive” by Seanan McGuire
Delphi Anthology One (single-author collection)
“Kade & Karger: Big Trouble for Lil' Easy” by Randy Duncan
“The Four Aces: Zombies of Howling Cave” by Randy Duncan
“Conrad's Crew: The Crimson Triangle” by Randy Duncan
DECEMBER
Lightspeed Magazine #187, edited by John Joseph Adams
Reality Check by Nancy Kress
Us, In Another Universe by A.C. Wise
The Hub Living Among the Stars by Oyadotun Damilola Muess
The Space Between Us by P.A. Cornell
You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World by Aimee Ogden
Cricket in the Lost Light by Jonathan Olfert
HagioClass by Jose Pablo Iriarte
Memories of the MindMine by David Marino
Infringement by Seanan McGuire
Lies I Tell Myself: Stories (single-author collection)
How to Make A Souffle in 38 Easy Steps by Jeffrey Ricker
Looking for Bigfoot by Jeffrey Ricker
Peripheral by Jeffrey Ricker
Shepherd by Jeffrey Ricker
Multiverse by Jeffrey Ricker
Nightmare #159 edited by Wendy N. Wagner
The Short History of a Long-Forgotten, Ill-Fated Telenovela by Dante Luiz
Review: When the Baby Sleeps by Lyndsie Manusos
Shahmeran by Leyla Hamedi
The Dark #127 edited by Sean Wallace
Most Likely To ... (Class of 1997) by A.C. Wise
Lustre Mining by Eliza Chan
Uncanny #67 edited by Lynne Thomas and Michael Damien Thomas
The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
Who Are You Wearing? by Russell Nichols
To Speak in Silence by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plott Hound #3 edited by Allison Thai
The Cemetary Cat by Renee Carter Hall
A Mountain Retirement by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
Clarkesworld #229 edited by Neil Clarke
The Job Interview by Carrie Vaughn
In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand by Phoebe Barton
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #447 edited by Scott H. Andrews
A Good Brother by Anne Wilkins
Vanya and the Dog Witch by Walter J. Wiese
Upon The Midnight Queer (single-author collection)
Dolph by 'Nathan Burgoine
Frost by 'Nathan Burgoine
Reflection by 'Nathan Burgoine
The Five Crowns and Colonel's Sabre by 'Nathan Burgoine
Five Shillings and Sixpence by 'Nathan Burgoine
The Doors of Penlyon by 'Nathan Burgoine
A Day (Or Two) Ago by 'Nathan Burgoine
The Future in Flame by 'Nathan Burgoine
Not The Marrying Kind by 'Nathan Burgoine
All of '81 by 'Nathan Burgoine
Folly by 'Nathan Burgoine
Wonder by 'Nathan Burgoine
A Winter's Hourglass by 'Nathan Burgoine
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction #773 edited by Sheree Renee Thomas
Soul Rebel by Maurice Broaddus
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days (single-author collection)
Spirit of Christmas by Jeanette Winterson
The SnowMama by Jeanette Winterson
Dark Christmas by Jeanette Winterson
Christmas in New York by Jeanette Winterson
The Mistletoe Bride by Jeanette Winterson
O'Brien's First Christmas by Jeanette Winterson
The Second-Best Bed by Jeanette Winterson
Christmas Cracker by Jeanette Winterson
Ghost Story by Jeanette Winterson
The Silver Frog by Jeanette Winterson
The Lion, The Unicorn and Me by Jeanette Winterson
The Glow-Heart by Jeanette Winterson
Strange Horizons November 2025 ed. by Joyce Chng, Dante Luiz, Hebe Stanton, Kathryn Weaver and Aigner Loren Wilson
Palimpset by Melissa A Watkins
If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear (single-author collection)
If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear by Ken Scholes
The Doom of Love in Small Spaces by Ken Scholes
Golden Age Christmas Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler
Mystery For Christmas by Anthony Boucher
Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow
The Importance of a Tidy Home by Christopher Golden
The Ones He Takes by Benjamin Percy
His Castle by Alma Katsu
The Mawkin Field by Terry Dowling
The Blessing of the Waters by Nick Mamatas
Dry and Ready by Glen Hirschberg
Last Drinks at Bondi Beach by Garth Nix
Return to Bear Creek Lodge by Tananarive Due
The Ghost of Christmases Past by Richard Kadrey
Our Recent Unpleasantness by Stephen Graham Jones
All The Pretty People by Nadia Bulkin
Loyla Sow-na by Josh Malerman
Cold by Cassandra Khaw
Gravé of Small Birds by Kaaron Warren
The Visitation by Jeffrey Ford
The Lord of Misrule by M. Rickert
No Light, No Light by Gemma Files
After Words by John Langan
Mysterious Bookshop Chapbook, edited by Otto Penzler
A Christmas Delivery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Jericho Hill Books Chapbook, editor unknown
A Night in the Lonesome by Richard Chizmar and W.H. Chizmar
A Good Night For Bad Dreams by W.H. Chizmar
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, editor unknown
A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bascombe Valley Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Only Way Out Is Through The Window (single-author collection)
Build My Body Around My Bones by Christine Vartoughian
All The Falling Stars of Rome by Christine Vartoughian
As Far As My Body Can Take Me by Christine Vartoughian
The Only Way Out Is Through The Window by Christine Vartoughian
The Color of Forgotten Dreams by Christine Vartoughian
Small Creatures Vanishing by Christine Vartoughian
The Benefits of Being Misunderstood by Christine Vartoughian
Animals of A Vicious Kind by Christine Vartoughian
No One Dies Here by Christine Vartoughian
The Last Encore by Christine Vartoughian
