Swamped with short stories

Here’s the compiled list of freely available short stories from the sources mentioned in the previous post (apart from the Locus list and Sheet of Doom which are too long), complemented with a couple of other good stories I’ve enjoyed (but which haven’t been on any recommendation lists so far):

• “Elephants and Omnibuses” by Julia August
• “Covenant” by Elizabeth Bear
• “This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth Bear
• “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard
• “The Truth about Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar
• “When it Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster
• “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology” by Theodora Goss
• “Tuesdays with Molakesh the Destroyer” by Megan Grey
• “Copy Machine” by Shane Halbach
• “Hunting Monsters” by S.L. Huang
• “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel
• “She Commands Me and I Obey” by Ann Leckie
• “Resurrection Points, Usman” by T. Malik
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik
• “Death and the Girl From Pi Delta Zeta” by Helen Marshall
• “Still Life, with Oranges” by John P. Murphy
• “Icarus Falls” by Alex Shvartsman
• “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul” by Natalia Theodoridou
• “Bonfires in Anacostia” by Joseph Tomaras
• “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon
• “The Floating Girl: A Documentary” by Damien Angelica Walters
• “Santos de Sampaguitas” by Alyssa Wong
• “The Fisher Queen” by Alyssa Wong
• “The Tongtong’s Summer” by Xia Jia
• “Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points” by JY Yang
• “Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion” by Caroline M. Yoachim

I’ve read maybe half of these myself, and hope to get them all read before the deadline. The Breath of War, Covenant, The Truth about Owls, The Fisher Queen and Hunting Monsters are maybe the best ones so far, but that may change when I get to the end of the list.