Below you'll find a short, sporadically updated list of some good short fiction I've come across in 2003. This list will likely not grow too unwieldy.
* Note -- Well, the list didn't grow too unwieldy now, did it? See, I didn't actually read as much published short fiction as I would have liked. I read a ton of slush for ChiZine, and that, of course, consumed a lot of time and energy. I still have several books and magazines and e-zines I'd like to get at. But they'll have to wait. And I have some writing I'd like to do. In the meantime, you'll have to content yourself with this meager but magnificent list of stories.
-Mike
Voice C, by Tom Piccirilli, Cemetery Dance #42
Crow Man, by Sarah Singleton, The Third Alternative #33
With Acknowledgements To Sun Tzu, by Brian Hodge, The Third Alternative #33
Imbroglio, by Conrad Williams, The Museum of Horrors
The Bird Catcher, by S.P. Somtow, The Museum of Horrors
Tin Cup Heart, by Hannah Wolf Bowen, ChiZine #16
Genie, by Anonymous, Nemonymous #3
Five Things Of Beauty, by Patrick Samphire, Strange Horizons
In The Darkening Green, by Mike O'Driscoll, The Third Alternative #34
You Go Where it Takes You, by Nathan Ballingrud, SciFi.com
Some Other Me, by Brian Hodge, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Creation, by Jeffrey Ford, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in The Air, by Glen Hirshberg, SciFi.com
To Ghosts, by Jack Slay Jr., Cemetery Dance #45
At the Mouth of the River of Bees, by Kij Johnson, SciFi.com
Walking, by Seth Lindberg & Brett Alexander Savory, Denying Death