Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise “adult” anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection.

Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists.

Table of Contents

• Selkie Stories Are For Losers - Sofia Samatar


• By Bone-Light - Juliet Marillier


• The Myriad Dangers - Lavie Tidhar


• Carpet - Nnedi Okorafor


• I Gave You My Love by the Light of the Moon - Sarah Rees Brennan


• 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides - Sam J. Miller


• The Minotaur Girls - Tansy Rayner Roberts


• Not With You, But With You - Miri Kim


• Ghost Town - Malinda Lo


• December - Neil Gaiman


• An Echo in the Shell - Beth Cato


• Dan's Dreams - Eliza Victoria


• As Large As Alone - Alena McNamara


• Random Play All and the League of Awesome - Shane Halbach


• Mah Song - Joanne Anderton


• What We Ourselves Are Not - Leah Cypess


• The City of Chrysanthemum - Ken Liu


• Megumi's Quest - Joyce Chng


• Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys - Steve Berman


• Flight - Angela Slatter


• We Have Always Lived on Mars - Cecil Castellucci