The Best American Short Stories 2013

Other Distinguished Stories of 2012

ALMOND, STEVE

Gondwana. Ploughshares, vol. 38, no. 1.

APPEL, JACOB M.

The Price of Storks. Western Humanities Review, vol. 66, no. 2.

BAKER, MATTHEW

Everything That Somehow Found Us Here. New England Review, vol. 33, no. 2.

BARRETT, ANDREA

The Particles. Tin House, no. 51.

BEAMS, CLARE

World’s End. One Story, no. 166.

BEATTIE, ANN

The Astonished Woodchopper. Paris Review, no. 201.

BERGMAN, MEGAN Mayhew

Phoenix. Ploughshares Pshares Singles, no. 3.

BLACK, ALETHEA

You, on a Good Day. One Story, no. 163.

BOSWELL, ROBERT

American Epiphany. American Short Fiction, vol. 15, no. 54.

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Birnam Wood. The New Yorker, September 3.

BRADLEY, DAVID

You Remember the Pin Mill. Narrative Magazine, Spring.

BROWN, KAREN

Stillborn. Epoch, vol. 61, no. 2.

CARLSON, RON

Line from a Movie. Zyzzyva, no. 96.

CELONA, MARJORIE

The Everpresent Hell of Other People. Harvard Review, no. 42.

CHABON, MICHAEL

Citizen Conn. The New Yorker, February 13 & 20.

CLARK, GEORGE MAKANA

The Incomplete Priest. Ecotone, no. 114.

COOPER, RAND Richards

Tunneling. Commonweal, July.

CORE, LEOPOLDINE

The Underside of Charm. Joyland, vol. 1, no. 2.

CREWS, HARRY

You’ll Like My Mother’s Grave. Georgia Review, vol. 66, no. 3.

DAHLIE, MICHAEL

The Pharmacist from Jena. Harper’s Magazine, January.

DARK, ALICE ELLIOT

Rumm Road. The Literarian, no. 7.

DE JARNATT, STEVE

Mulligan. Cincinnati Review, vol. 8, no. 2.

DEWILLE, JAMES

Last Days on Rossmore. American Short Fiction, vol. 15, no. 55.

DÍAZ, JUNOT

The Cheater’s Guide to Love. The New Yorker, July 23.

DONOGHUE, EMMA

Onward. The Atlantic, September.

DUVAL, PETE

Orchard Tender. Meridian, no. 28.

EDOCHIE, CHIDELIA

The King of Hispaniola. Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 51, no. 1.

EGAN, JENNIFER

Black Box. The New Yorker, June 4 & 11.

ELLIOTT, JULIA

LIMBs. Tin House, no. 51.

ERDRICH, LOUISE

Nero. The New Yorker, May 7.

FRISCH, SARAH

Housebreaking. Paris Review, no. 203.

GALCHEN, RIVKA

Appreciation. The New Yorker, March 19.

GENI, ABBY

Dharma at the Gate. Glimmer Train, no. 83.

GILSON, WILLIAM

At the Dark End of the Street. New England Review, vol. 33, no. 1.

GROFF, LAUREN

Abundance. Ecotone, no. 13.

A Season by the Shore. Glimmer Train, no. 82.

HAIGH, JENNIFER

A Place in the Sun. The Common, no. 4.

HARDY, EDWARD

Hole in the Sand. Glimmer Train, no. 85.

HEMPEL, AMY

A Full-Service Shelter. Tin House, vol. 13, no. 4.

JAMES, TANIA

Lion and Panther in London. Granta, no. 119.

The Scriptological Review. A Public Space, no. 15.

KADETSKY, ELIZABETH

An Incident at the Plaza. Antioch Review, vol. 70, no. 1.

KING, STEPHEN

Batman and Robin Have an Altercation. Harper’s Magazine, September.

KRAUSS, NICOLE

An Arrangement of Light. Byliner, August.

LA FARGE, PAUL

Another Life. The New Yorker, July 2.

LANCELOTTA, VICTORIA

So Happy. Hayden’s Ferry Review, no. 50.

LERNER, BEN

The Golden Vanity. The New Yorker, June 18.

LIPSYTE, SAM

The Republic of Empathy. The New Yorker, June 4 & 11.

LODATO, VICTOR

P.E. The New Yorker, April 2.

MARTIN, JEFF

When the Water Rises. Greensboro Review, no. 92.

MCCANN, COLUM

Transatlantic. The New Yorker, April 16.

MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH

A Dream of Being Sufficient. Zoetrope: All-Story, vol. 13, no. 3.

MCDERMOTT, ALICE

Someone. The New Yorker, January 30.

MCGRAW, ERIN

Step. Image, no. 73.

MCGUANE, THOMAS

The Casserole. The New Yorker, September 10.

A Prairie Girl. The New Yorker, February 27.

MELOY, MAILE

The Proxy Marriage. The New Yorker, May 21.

MOORE, LORRIE

Wings. Paris Review, no. 20.

MORRISSEY, COLLEEN

Good Faith. Cincinnati Review, vol. 9, no. 2.

MUNRO, ALICE

Amundsen. The New Yorker, August 27.

Haven. The New Yorker, March 5.

NAIDITCH, DOVBER

The Angel in the House. Prairie Schooner, vol. 86, no. 4.

NELSON, KENT

La Mer de L’Ouest. Georgia Review, vol. 66, no. 2.

NULL, MATTHEW Neill

Telemetry. Ploughshares, vol. 38, no. 4.

OKPARANTA, CHINELO

America. Granta, no. 118.

ORNER, PETER

The Hole. Ecotone, no. 13.

PARAMESWARAN, RAJESH

On the Banks of Table River (Planet Lucina, Andromeda Galaxy, a.d. 2319). Zoetrope: All-Story, vol. 16, no. 1.

PARRY, LESLIE

New Heaven. Missouri Review, vol. 35, no. 2.

PEARLMAN, EDITH

Life Lessons. Cincinnati Review, vol. 8, no. 2.

Stone. Agni, no. 75.

PODOS, REBECCA

The Fourth. Glimmer Train, no. 84.

POOLE, NATHAN

Stretch Out Your Hand. NarrativeMagazine, Winter.

POWERS, RICHARD

Genie. Byliner, November.

RATCLIFFE, JANE

You Can’t Be Too Careful. New England Review, vol. 33, no. 1.

RAWLINGS, WENDY

Tics. Agni, no. 76.

ROW, JESS

Summer Song. Tin House, vol. 13, no. 4.

RUSKOVICH, EMILY

An Impending Change of Heart. Zoetrope: All-Story, vol. 16, no. 4.

RUSSELL, KAREN

Reeling for the Empire. Tin House, vol. 14, no. 2.

SCHAFFERT, TIMOTHY

Lady of the Burlesque Ballet. Ploughshares Pshares Singles, no. 1.

SCHUTZ, GREG

The Sweet Nothings. Carolina Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2.

SHAPIRO, GERALD

A Drunkard’s Walk. Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 51, no. 2.

SHIPSTEAD, MAGGIE

The Great Central Pacific Guano Company. American Short Fiction, vol. 15, no. 54.

In the Olympic Village. Subtropics, no. 13.

SIEGEL, ROBERT ANTHONY

The Right Imaginary Person. Tin House, vol. 14, no. 2.

SLOUKA, MARK

Russian Mammoths. Orion, March/April.

SNEED, CHRISTINE

The Finest Medical Attention. New England Review, vol. 33, no. 1.

SPENCER, DARRELL

Squeeze Me, I Sing. Georgia Review, vol. 66, no. 1.

SPENCER, ELIZABETH

Blackie. Epoch, vol. 61, no. 1.

TAYLOR, JUSTIN

After Ellen. The New Yorker, August 13 & 20.

THEROUX, PAUL

Our Raccoon Year. Harper’s Magazine, May.

TOUTONGHI, PAULS

The Limit of the World. Epoch, vol. 61, no. 3.

TROY, JUDY

My Buried Life. Kenyon Review, vol. 34, no. 3.

VAN DEN BERG, LAURA

Lessons. American Short Fiction, vol. 15, no. 54.

Opa Locka. Southern Review, vol. 48, no. 3.

VAPNYAR, LARA

Fischer vs. Spassky. The New Yorker, October 8.

VIERGUYTZ, DINA NAYARI

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea. Southern Review, vol. 48, no. 2.

VOLLMER, MATTHEW

Advanced Placement Question 3, Free Response. The Normal School, vol. 5, no. 2.

WALTER, JESS

Thief. Harper’s Magazine, March.

WATERS, DON

Full of Days. Southwest Review, vol. 97, no. 1.

WATKINS, CLAIRE VAYE

The Archivist. Glimmer Train, no. 83.