TY - BOOK AU - Freed,Lynn AU - Strout,Elizabeth AU - Vapnyar,Lara TI - The O. Henry Prize stories 2019: [the best short stories of the year] SN - 9780525565536 PY - 2019/// KW - Short stories KW - American fiction KW - 21st century KW - lcgft N1 - Introduction -- Funny little snake / Tessa Hadley -- Synchronicity / John Keeble -- No Spanish / Moira McCavana -- Girl of few seasons / Rachel Kondo -- Julia and Sunny / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Unstuck / Stephanie Reents -- Mermaid river / Alexia Arthurs -- Bad girl / Valerie O'Riordan -- Aguacero / Patricia Engel -- Soma / Kenan Orhan -- Goodnight nobody / Sarah Hall -- 610 North, 610 West / Bryan Washington -- Mr. Can'aan / Isabella Hammad -- Omakase / Weike Wang -- Prime / Caoilinn Hughes -- Slingshot / Souvankham Thammavongsa -- The shrew tree / Liza Ward -- Flowers for America / Doua Thao -- Lagomorph / Alexander MacLeod -- Maps and ledgers / John Edgar Wideman -- Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories -- Writing the O. Henry Prize stories -- Publications submitted -- Permissions N2 - The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty breathtaking stories— by a vibrant mix of established and emerging writers— selected by the series editor from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The collection includes essays by the three eminent guest jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction ER -