Contents

Below are the stories in the first edition of Best American Fantasy, which includes work published in 2006:

A Hard Truth About Waste Management
by Sumanth Prabhaker
from Identity Theory

The Stolen Father
by Eric Roe
from Redivider

The Saffron Gatherer
by Elizabeth Hand
from Saffron & Brimstone (M Press)

The Whipping
by Julia Elliott
from The Georgia Review

A Better Angel
by Chris Adrian
from The New Yorker

Draco Campestris
by Sarah Monette
from Strange Horizons

Geese
by Daniel Coudriet
from The Mississippi Review

The Chinese Boy
by Ann Stapleton
from Alaska Quarterly Review

The Flying Woman
by Meghan McCarron
from Strange Horizons

First Kisses from Beyond the Grave
by Nik Houser
from Gargoyle

Song of the Selkie
by Gina Ochsner
from Tin House

A Troop [sic] of Baboons
by Tyler Smith
from Pindeldyboz

Pieces of Scheherazade
by Nicole Kornher-Stace
from Zahir

Origin Story
by Kelly Link
from A Public Space

An Experiment in Governance
by E.M. Schorb
from The Mississippi Review

The Next Corpse Collector
by Ramola D
from Green Mountains Review

The Village of Ardakmoktan
by Nicole Derr
from Pindeldyboz

The Man Who Married a Tree
by Tony D'Souza
from McSweeney's

A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets
by Kevin Brockmeier
from Oxford American

Pregnant
by Catherine Zeidler
from Hobart

The Warehouse of Saints
by Robin Hemley
from Ninth Letter

The Ledge
by Austin Bunn
from One Story

Lazy Taekos
by Geoffrey A. Landis
from Analog

For the Love of Paul Bunyan
by Fritz Swanson
from Pindeldyboz

An Accounting
by Brian Evenson
from Paraspheres (Omnidawn)

Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot
by Daniel Alarcón
from Zoetrope: All-Story

Bit Forgive
by Maile Chapman
from A Public Space

The End Of Narrative (1-29; Or 29-1)
by Peter LaSalle
from The Southern Review

Kiss
by Melora Wolff
from The Southern Review