A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Hard truth about waste management / Sumanth Prabhaker --
Stolen father / Eric Roe --
Saffron gatherer / Elizabeth Hand --
Whipping / Julia Elliott --
Better angel / Chris Adrian --
Draco Campestris / Sarah Monette --
Geese / Daniel Courdriet --
Chinese boy / Ann Stapleton --
Flying woman / Meghan McCarron --
First kisses from beyond the grave / Nik Houser --
Song of the selkie / Gina Ochsner --
Troop [sic] of baboons / Tyler Smith --
Pieces of Scheherazade / Nicole Kornher-Stace --
Origin story / Kelly Link --
Experiment in governance / E.M. Schorb --
Next corpse collector / Ramola D --
Village of Ardakmoktan / Nicole Derr --
Man who married a tree / Tony D'Souza --
Fable with slips of white paper ... / Kevin Brockmeier --
Pregnant / Catherine Zeidler --
Warehouse of saints / Robin Hemley --
Ledge / Austin Bunn --
Lazy taekos / Geoffrey A. Landis --
For the love of Paul Bunyan / Fritz Swanson --
Accounting / Brian Evenson --
Abraham Loncoln has been shot / Daniel Alarcon --
Bit forgive / Maile Chapman --
End of narrative (1-29; or 29-1) / Peter LaSalle --
Kiss / Melora Wolff