Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction 2023
Curated by Nebula-award winner Vajra Chandrasekera
Death is an integral part of life, waiting on the other side for each of us. Writers, however, have no need to wait. They can cross the boundary as easily as stepping from one room to another. These eighteen stories from 2023 will take you into that room and beyond. From death’s chamber to the hood of a Camaro, from quiet woods to shrieking space. Death awaits. Let us go and meet it.
Enjoy amazing, death-focused fiction from:
Isabel J. Kim, Tehnuka, Michael Roch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Will McMahon, Bendi Barrett, Diana Dima, Eden Royce, B. Pladek, Avra Margariti, EC Dorgan, Gabrielle Emem Harry, Samir Sirk Morató, M. L., Krishnan, Jill Tew, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Sydney Paige Guerrero, J.A.W. McCarthy.
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My short story “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” is a futuristic retelling of Rebecca, in which a woman finds herself trapped in a smart house controlled by an AI replica of her fiancé’s dead lover. But all is not what it seems…