Staff Picks Short Fiction: Caroline M. Yoachim, John Chu, and A.T. Greenblatt

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Short fiction reviewer Karen Burnham selects some top stories of the year:

“The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. Yoachim in Lightspeed;
“Beyond the El” by John Chu in Tor.com;
and “Give the Family My Love” by A.T. Greenblatt in Clarkesworld.

She also gives special mention to:
“Tiny Bravery” by Ada Nnadi in Omenana;
“Mulch” by Vajra Chandrasekera in See the Elephant #4;
“Streetlight Discovers Kandinsky” by Beth Goder in Constellary Tales;
and “Waking in the Cold and the Dark” by Lü Momo in Future SF Digest.