We’ve nominated these pieces for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series:
The Best American Short Stories:
“Hippasus of Metapontum” by Robert Perron
“Mr. O’Brien’s Last Soliloquy” by Robert Garner McBrearty
The Best American Essays:
“Squirrel Pie and the Golden Derrière” by Scott Dominic Carpenter
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (BASFF Volume 6):
“Security” by Rob Dinsmoor
The Best American Travel Writing:
“The Accidental Peacemaker” by Mary Donaldson-Evans
“Touched by the (Tuscan) Sun” by Olga Pavlinova Olenich
“Squirrel Pie and the Golden Derrière” by Scott Dominic Carpenter
“Show Me the Bust of Marcus Agrippa” by Christie B. Cochrell
“Miniatures” by Valerie Nieman