Story update: Owl Abbas in Year’s Best

A writing update! My (Ditmar-award-winning!) Tor.com short story “The Heart of Owl Abbas” has been collected in Prime Book’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019, edited by Rich Horton.

It is a Baroque, word-sprung story for specific and elaborate tastes, and I’m delighted so many people have enjoyed it.

Here is the full table of contents (from the ebook ToC):

• A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix E. Harrow
• Intervention — Kelly Robson
• The Donner Party — Dale Bailey
• How to Identify an Alien Shark — Beth Goder
• The Tale of the Ive-Ojan-Akhar’s Death — Alex Jeffers
• Carouseling — Rich Larson
• The Starship and the Temple Cat — Yoon Ha Lee
• Grace’s Family — James Patrick Kelly
• The Court Magician — Sarah Pinsker
• The Persistence of Blood — Juliette Wade
• Lime and the One Human — S Woodson
• Bubble and Squeak — David Gerrold & Ctein
• Sour Milk Girls — Erin Roberts
• The Unnecessary Parts of the Story — Adam-Troy Castro
• The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish — Octavia Cade
• The Gift — Julia Nováková
• The Buried Giant — Lavie Tidhar
• Jump — Cadwell Turnbell
• Umbernight — Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Today is Today — Rick Wilber
• The Heart of Owl Abbas — Kathleen Jennings
• The Spires — Alec Nevala-Lee
• The House by the Sea — P H Lee
• Foxy and Tiggs — Justina Robson
• Beautiful — Juliet Marillier
• Dayenu — James Sallis
• Firelight — Ursula K Le Guin