“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