“The Golden Age of Fire Escapes” (Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo) honorable mention
“The Mystery of Our Baraboo Lands” (Polyphony, Volume 3) honorable mention
“You Go Where It Takes You” (Sci Fiction 16 Jul 2003) honorable mention
“The Reincarnate” (Conjunctions 41: Two Kingdoms) honorable mention
“Come Dance with Me” (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian) honorable mention
“The Brief History of the Dead” (The New Yorker 8 Sep 2003) honorable mention
“Ash City Stomp” (Trampoline: An Anthology) honorable mention
“The Wolf at the Door” (StoryQuarterly) honorable mention
“After the Disaster” (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) honorable mention
“The Annals of Eelin-Ok” (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm) winner
“Bitter Grounds” (Mojo: Conjure Stories) honorable mention
“Custer's Angel” (New Voices in Science Fiction) honorable mention
“Pip and the Fairies” (Strange Horizons) honorable mention
“Second Person, Present Tense” (Asimov's Sep 2005) honorable mention
“The Immortal Feet” (One Story) honorable mention
“Girl Reporter” (One Story) winner
“Best New Horror” (Postscripts) honorable mention
“They Took My Body Apart and Made Another Me” (Conjunctions 41: Two Kingdoms) honorable mention
“The Shortest Distance Between Me and the World” (Missouri Review) honorable mention
“Music Lessons” (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #14 2004) honorable mention
“The Faery Handbag” (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm) honorable mention
“A Precursor of the Cinema” (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) honorable mention
“The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations” (F&SF Aug 2005) honorable mention
“Things Penguins Do” (Fence Magazine) honorable mention
“The People of Paper” (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) honorable mention
“A History of the Ghosts of Judy, Tennessee” (StoryQuarterly) honorable mention
“The Fishie” (by PR &
Harvey Welles) (
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #12 Jun 2003) honorable mention
“Anyway” (Sci Fiction 24 Aug 2005) honorable mention
“Cold Fires” (F&SF Oct/Nov 2004) honorable mention
“Bread & Bombs” (F&SF Apr 2003) honorable mention
“The Mushroom Duchess” (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #17 2005) honorable mention
“The Lethe Man” (Say... #4 2004) honorable mention
“The Specialist” (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) winner
“Lemmings in the Third Year” (Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction) honorable mention
“Retrospective” (Not One of Us #31) honorable mention
“The Fishie” (by
Philip Raines & HW) (
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #12 Jun 2003) honorable mention
“Death Penality” (Sci Fiction 19 Feb 2003) honorable mention
“Zavtra aptBaZ” (Scheherazade) honorable mention
“The Pond” (Missouri Review) honorable mention