THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO YA SHORT STORIES BY YOUR FAVORITE YA AUTHORS Part 2- Authors G - Z

YA SHORT STORIES BY YA WRITERS- PART Two

NEIL GAIMAN

• “Bloody Sunrise”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Sleeper and the Spindle” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Witch Work” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

ERIC GANSWORTH

• “Don’t Pass Me By”  (Fresh Ink)

KAMI GARCIA

• “Burn 3” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Improbable Futures” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Red Run” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “The Soul Collector” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

SONIA GENSLER

• “Untethered” (Grim)

LAUREN GIBALDI 

• “Life: Starring Tallulah Grey” (Welcome Home)
• “What We Love” (Color Outside the Lines)

SHANNON GIBNEY

• “Salvation” (Welcome Home)

LAMAR GILES

• “Black. Nerd. Problems” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “The Historian, the Garrison, and the Cantankerous Cat Woman” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Oval Filter” (His Hideous Heart)

STEVEN GOULD

• “Rust with Wings” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

MICHAEL GRANT

• “This Is a Mortal Wound” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

TESSA GRATTON

• “Beast / Beast” (Grim)
• “Before She was Blood”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The King of Greenlight City”  (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Night-Tide” (His Hideous Heart)
• “This Was Ophelia”(Defy The Dark)
• “Three Witches” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages)

CLAUDIA GRAY

• “Bloodshed” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Free” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Giovanni’s Farewell” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “I Don’t Like Your Girlfriend” (Vacations From Hell)
• “A Real Boy” (Grim)

JOHN GREEN

• “Freak the Geek” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Great American Morp” (21 Proms)

BETHANY HAGEN

• “Unus, Duo, Tres”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

JENNY HAN

• “Polaris is Where You’ll Find Me” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

FRANCES HARDINGE

• “Payment Due” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

KIM HARRISON

• “Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper” (Prom Nights From Hell)

KATE HART

• “The Well Witch” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

BRETT HARTINGER 

• “The Question: A Play in One Act” (21 Proms)

RACHEL HAWKINS

• “Eyes in the Dark” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Key” (Grim)

KAREN HEALEY

• “Careful Magic” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

HEIDI HEILIG

• “The Long Road” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “What We’re Born With and What We Pick Up Along the Way” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

LEAH HENDERSON 

• “Warning: Color May Fade” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

CHRISTINE HEPPERMANN

• “The Devil Inside” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

FAITH ERIN HICKS

• “Untitled” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

TANUJA DESAI HIDIER 

• “Eight Minutes” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

AMANDA HOCKING

• “The Pink” (Grim)

NANCY HOLDER

• “Changed” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Letters to Romeo” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)
• “Pale Rider” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Passing” with Debbie Viguie (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

ELLEN HOPKINS 

• “Before the Rose Bloomed” (Grim)
• “Tiffany Twisted” (Behind The Song)

NALO HOPKINSON

• “The Easthound” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

A.G. HOWARD

• “Stitches” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

JAMES HOWE

• “How Miracles Begin” (Behind The Song)

SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

• “Better” (Grim)
• “Defying Definition” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Inferno and the Butterfly” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

JUSTINA IRELAND

• “Dread South” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Kissing Sarah Smart” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

TIFFANY D. JACKSON

• “It’s Carnival!”  (His Hideous Heart)

S. JAE-JONES

• “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

MICHELLE JAFFE

• “Kiss and Tell” (Prom Nights From Hell)

BRIAN JAMES

• “Filthadelphia” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

N. K. JEMISIN

• “Valedictorian” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

BOOK RIOT EDITOR KELLY JENSEN

• “The Light Bulb, the Broom, and the Work They Don’t Tell You about” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Owning My Feminism”(Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON

• “A Hundred Thousand Threads” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

CHRISTINE JOHNSON

• “Shadowed” (Defy The Dark)
• “Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tongue” (Grim)

MAUREEN JOHNSON

• “The Children of the Revolution” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Law of Suspects”  (Vacations From Hell)

VARIAN JOHNSON

• “Black Enough”  (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• “Like Me” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “A Thousand Words” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

E.K. JOHNSTON

• “Work in Progress” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

SUSAN JUBY

“Flattened” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

JULIE KAGAWA

• “The Brothers Piggett” (Grim)
• “Eyes like Candlelight” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

RAHUL KANAKIA

• “Next Door” (Diverse Energies)
• “Spear Carrier” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

LYDIA KANG

• “Yuna and the Wall” (Color Outside the Lines)

SHEBA KARIM

• “On Your Own Level” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

MICHELLE RUIZ KEIL

• “Gilman Street” (Color Outside the Lines)

BETH KEPHART

• “The Opposite of Ordinary” (Behind The Song)

KODY KEPLINGER

• “Britt And The Bike God” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “The Choice Is Yours” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Walking After Midnight” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

CAITLIN R. KIERNAN

• “Fake Plastic Trees” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Behind the Red Door” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “The Vast Machinery of Dreams” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

ELLEN KLAGES

• “The Education of a Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

ELIZABETH KNOX

• “Gethsemane” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

RON KOERTGE

• “Call Me!” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

RON KOERTGE

“Baby” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

E.M. KOKIE

• “Quick Change” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

JAY KRISTOFF

• “Sleepless” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

STEPHANIE KUEHN

• “Being Heard and Hating Sound” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Happy Days, Sweetheart” (His Hideous Heart)

ELLEN KUSHNER

• “The Threefold World” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

NINA LACOUR

• “The End of Love” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Print Shop” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

MARGO LANAGAN

• “Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “A Thousand Flowers”(Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

JUSTINE LARBALESTIER 

• “Thinner Than Water” (Love Is Hell)

JAMES LECESNE

• “Still Not Dead” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

LORI M. LEE 

• “Starlight and Moondust” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Steel Skin” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

MACKENZI LEE

• “Burnt Umber” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “You’re a Stranger Here” (The Radical Element)

STACEY LEE

“Land of the Sweet, Home of the Brave” (The Radical Element)

TANITH LEE

• “Felidis” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Table Manners” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Why Light?” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

Y.S. LEE

• ‘The Legendary Garrett Girls” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

DAVID LEVITHAN

• “The Hold” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “Lost Sometimes” (21 Proms)
• “Quiz Bowl Antichrist” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Vulnerable Hours” (Up All Night)
• “Your Temporary Santa” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

ELIE LICHTENSCHEIN

• “He Who Revives the Dead” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

KELLY LINK

• “The Lady and the Fox” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Secret Identity” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “The Summer People” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)

LESLEY LIVINGSTON

• “Rude Mechanicals” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

EMILY LLOYD-JONES

• “A Drop of Stolen Ink” (His Hideous Heart)

MALINDA LO

• “Forever Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Ghost Town” (Defy The Dark)
• “Good Girl” (Diverse Energies)
• “Meet Cute” (Fresh Ink)
• “New Year” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “One True Love” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Twelfth Girl” (Grim)

KATHERINE LOCKE

• “Per Aspera Ad Astra” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)
• “Some Days You’re the Sidekick; Some Days You’re the Superhero” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

E. LOCKHART

• “How I Wrote to Today” (21 Proms)

ALEX LONDON

• “Indoor Kids” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

KATHERINE LONGSHORE

• “Hard Times” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

EMERY LORD

• “The Five People You Overhear When Depressed at the Van Gogh Exhibit” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “The Gherin Girls”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Oomph” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

AMANDA LOVELACE

• “The Raven (Remix)” (His Hideous Heart)

MARIE LU 

• “The Girl Without a Face” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• ‘The Journey” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

ELISA LUDWIG

• “About You Now” (Behind The Song)

BARRY LYGA

• “The Truth about Dino Girl” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

CHRIS LYNCH

• “Lucky Buoy” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

JONATHAN MABERRY

• “Fat Girl With a Knife” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “You Know Something’s Happening Here” (Behind The Song)

KAREN MAHONEY 

• “Falling to Ash” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “The Spirit Jar” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

SANGU MANDANNA

• “Five Times Shiva Met Harry” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Upon the Horizon’s Verge” (Welcome Home)

KEKLA MAGOON

• “For a Moment, Underground” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Makeshift” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)
• “Out of the Silence” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)
• ”Pulse of the Panthers” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

MELISSA MARR

• “Awakened” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Corpse Eaters” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Love Struck” (Love Is Hell)
• “Transition” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

ZOE MARRIOTT

• “Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

WENDY MASS

• “The Stars at the Finish Line” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

ELIZABETH MAY

• “Why they Watch Us Burn” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

LISH MCBRIDE

• “We Should Get Jerseys ‘Cause We Make a Good Team” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

SARAH MCCARRY

• “Girl Lessons” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

PATRICIA MCCORMICK 

• “Orange Alert” (Up All Night)
• “Smoking Lessons” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

MYRA MCENTIRE

• “Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)
• “Naughty or Nice” (Defy The Dark)

KATHARINE MCGEE

• “Click” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

MINDY MCGINNIS

• “Census Man” (Welcome Home)

L.L. MCKINNEY

• “Your Life Matters” (Color Outside the Lines)

ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE

• “Glamour” (The Radical Element)
• “Love Spell”(Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Roja” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Turn the Sky to Petals” (Color Outside the Lines)

LISA MCMANN

• “The Angriest Man” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)

RICHELLE MEAD

• “Blue Moon” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “Homecoming” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Sunshine”  (Kisses From Hell)

MEG MEDINA

• “The Birth of Susi Go-Go” (The Radical Element)

TEHLOR KAY MEJIA

• “Healing Rosa” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “Starsong” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

BILLY MERRELL

• “My Boyfriend Refuses To Speak In Iambic Pentameter” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)
• “Off Like a Prom Dress” (21 Proms)

MARISSA MEYER 

• ”Gold in the Roots of the Grass” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Sea Witch” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

STEPHENIE MEYER

• “Hell on Earth” (Prom Nights From Hell)

ELIZABETH MILES

• “Defense Mechanisms” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

KIRSTEN MILLER

• “Nemesis” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

SAUNDRA MITCHELL

• ”Bonnie and Clyde” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “The Chosen One” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Now Bid Time Return” (Defy The Dark)
• “Thinner than Water” (Grim)

SARAH MLYNOWSKI 

• “Cruisin'” (Vacations From Hell)
• “Your Big Night” (21 Proms)

GOLDY MOLDAVSKY 

• “Good Shabbos” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

HILLARY MONAHAN

• “Red” (His Hideous Heart)

KASS MORGAN

• “259 Million Miles” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

LAUREN MORRILL

• “Invited” (Welcome Home)

HANNAH MOSKOWITZ

• “Neilah” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

JULIE MURPHY 

• “Lessons for Beginners” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Something Real” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

E.C. MYERS

• “City Girl” (Behind The Song)
• “Kiss and Kiss and Kiss and Tell” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Land of the Morning Calm” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

LILY MYERS

• “I Have Always Eaten The Bread” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Shrinking Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

WALTER DEAN MYERS

• “Tags”  (Fresh Ink)

LAUREN MYRACLE

• “The Corsage” (Prom Nights From Hell)

G. NERI

• “Under Berlin” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

MARIEKE NIJKAMP

• “Better For All The World” (The Radical Element)
• “Changeling” (His Hideous Heart)
• “The Day The Dragon Came” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

GARTH NIX

• “A Handful of Ashes” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Happy Go Lucky”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Highest Justice” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Losing Her Divinity” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)
• “Peace in Our Time” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Quiet Knight” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Triangle Solo” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “Vampire Weather” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “You Won’t Feel a Thing” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

ALYSON NOEL

• “Bring Me to Life” (Kisses From Hell)

NAOMI NOVIK

• “Purity Test” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

• “Lexicon” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

SARAH OCKLER

• “The Moth and the Spider” (Defy The Dark)

DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER

• “Many Stories, Many Roads” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “A Stranger at the Bochinche” (Fresh Ink)

ELLEN OH

• “The Last Day”  (Diverse Energies)
• “Second Chances” (Behind The Song)

TOCHI ONYEBUCHI

• “Samson and the Delilahs” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

DANIELLE PAIGE 

• “The Dark, Scary Parts and All” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Prom” (Color Outside the Lines)

NATALIE C. PARKER

• “Cass, An, and Dra” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)
• “The Sweet Trade” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

SHANNON PARKER 

• “Tunneling Through” (Welcome Home)

JACKSON PEARCE 

• “Sell Out” (Grim)
• “Where The Light Is” (Defy The Dark)

MARY E. PEARSON

• “Gargouille” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

SUSAN BETH PFEFFER 

• “Reunion” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

ASHLEY HOPE PÉREZ

• “The ‘Nice Girl’ Feminist” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

MITALI PERKINS

• “Three Pointer” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

STEPHANIE PERKINS

• “In Ninety Minutes, Turn North” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “It’s a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

DIANA PETERFREUND

• “Burned Bright” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Errant”(Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “Foundlings” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Stray Magic” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

APRILYNNE PIKE

• “Nature” (Defy The Dark)

MARCELLA PIXLEY

• “Hush” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

CINDY PON

• “Beautiful Venom” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Blue Skies” (Diverse Energies)
• “The Crimson Cloak” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

JAMES PRELLER 

• “The Mistake” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

LIZ PRINCE

• “So I Guess This Is Growing Up” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

CJ REDWINE 

• “These Broken Stars” (Welcome Home)

AMY REED

• “Bless This Mess” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)

DIA REEVES

• “Chickie Hill’s Badass Ride” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “The Dark Side of the Moon” (Defy The Dark)

BETH REVIS

• “Love is a Choice” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Night Swimming” (Defy The Dark)
• “The Other Elder” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• ”Pearls”  (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

JASON REYNOLDS

• “Eraser Tattoo”  (Fresh Ink)
• “The Ingredients” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

KARUNA RIAZI 

• “Faithfull” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “Plus One” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

RANDY RIBAY

• “The Snow-Covered Sidewalk” (Welcome Home)

DEBBIE RIGAUD

• “Voilà!” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

CAROLINE TUNG RICHMOND

• “The Coward’s Guide to Falling in Love” (Color Outside the Lines)
• ”The Red Raven Ball” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

WILLIAM RITTER

• “Deeply” (Welcome Home)

CALEB ROEHRIG

• “The Glittering Death” (His Hideous Heart)

MATTHUE ROTH

• “The Ambush” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)
• “Find the River” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)
• “The Waitress” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

VERONICA ROTH

• “Hearken” (Shards and Ashes)
• “Inertia” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “Vim and Vigor”  (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

RAINBOW ROWELL 

• “Midnight” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

LANCE RUBIN

• “Jewbacca” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

MEREDITH RUSSO

• “Coda” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Somewhere That’s Green” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

CARRIE RYAN

• “After the Cure” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)
• “Almost Normal” (Defy The Dark)
• “Bougainvillea” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “The Dream Eater” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Hare Moon” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)
• “In the Forest Dark and Deep” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The Killing Garden” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “Miasma” (Shards and Ashes)
• “That the Machine May Progress Eternally”(Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

AISHA SAEED 

• “The Smile” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

AMINAH MAE SAFI

• “Be Cool For Once” (Fresh Ink)

SOFIA SAMATAR

• “Walkdog” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

ALEX SANCHEZ 

• “The Secret Life of a Teenage Boy” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

LISA ANN SANDELL

• “See Me” (21 Proms)

KATE SCELSA

• “The Coven” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

TIFFANY SCHMIDT

• “Anyone Other Than Me” (Behind The Song)

SAMANTHA SCHUTZ 

• “Picking” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

VICTORIA SCHWAB

• “Black Hole” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Death Knell” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

DANA SCHWARTZ 

• “El Al 328” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

MICHAEL SCOTT

• “Deadwood” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

TARUN SHANKER

• “Giving Up the Ghost” with Kelly Zekas (Color Outside the Lines)

TESS SHARPE

• “The Girl With the Blue Lantern” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Heart in Her Hands” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

NISI SHAWL

• “Otherwise” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

SARA SHEPARD 

• “The Intern” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)

MEGAN SHEPHERD

• “Hide and Seek” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Lady Firebrand” (The Radical Element)

DELIA SHERMAN

• “Flying”  (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• “The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor” (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories)
• “The Witch in the Wood” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)

ADAM SILVERA

• “Happiness Goes On” ((Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health)
• “Something Gay and Magical” (Color Outside the Lines)
• “You, You, It’s All About You” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

LAURA SILVERMAN 

• “Be Brave and All” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

TARA SIM

• “Death and the Maiden” (Color Outside the Lines)

JON SKOVRON

• “Love is the Last Resort” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)
• “The Raven Princess”(Grim)
• “There’s Nowhere Else” (Defy The Dark)

JORDAN SONNENBLICK

• “The Sweeter the Sin” (I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life)

CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH

• “Cupid’s Beaux” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)
• “Haunted Love” (Immortal: Love Stories with Bite)
• “The Wrath of Dawn” with Greg Leitich Smith (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

BOOK RIOT CONTRIBUTOR ERIC SMITH 

• “In Pieces” (Welcome Home)
• “Sandwiched in Between” (Color Outside the Lines)

JENNIFER E. SMITH

• “A Thousand Ways This Could All Go Wrong” (Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories)

LINDSAY SMITH

• ”City of Angels” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Death in the Sawtooths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)

JERI SMITH-READY

• “Bridge” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Figment” (Grim)
• “Thief” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

MARIA V SNYDER

• “Berserker Eyes” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)
• “Sword Point” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Under Amber Skies” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)

RACHEL LYNN SOLOMON

• “Aftershocks” (It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

JESSICA SPOTSWOOD 

• “Beware of Girls with Crooked Mouths” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”Madeleine’s Choice” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)
• “Step Right Up” (The Radical Element)

LILI ST. CROW

• “Ambition” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
• “Say Yes” (Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite)

COURTNEY C. STEVENS

• “Peace of Paper” (Welcome Home)

MAGGIE STIEFVATER

• “The Hounds of Ulster” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

MARGARET STOHL 

• “Death for the Deathless” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “IV League” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
• “Necklace of Raindrops”(Shards and Ashes)
• “Sirocco” (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales)

LAURIE FARIA STOLARZ

• “Sleeping with the Spirit” (Love Is Hell)

NIC STONE

• “Grounded” (Snow In Love)
• “Happy Beginning” (Welcome Home)
• “Into the Starlight” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

FRANCISCO X. STORK

• “Brotherly Love” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Captain, My Captain” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

NOVA REN SUMA

• “The Birds of Azalea Street” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “The One Who Stayed” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Reading Worthy Women” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Twelve Frames”(It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories)

COURTNEY SUMMERS

• “The Likability Rule” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “Sleepstalk” (Defy The Dark)

SABAA TAHIR

• “Waiting” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

ROBIN TALLEY

• “The Dresser and The Chambermaid” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)
• “The Legend of Stone Mary” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• ”The Whole World is Watching” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

LIARA TAMANI

• “Stop Playing” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

SARVENAZ TASH

• “The Belle of the Ball” (The Radical Element)

LAINI TAYLOR

• “Gentlemen Send Phantoms” (Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction)
• “The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

MCCORMICK TEMPLEMAN

• “A Girl Who Dreamed of Snow” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

SHVETA THAKRAR 

• “Daughter of the Sun” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)
• “Krishna Blue”(Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)
• “The Moonapple Menagerie” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “A Thousand Paper Cuts” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

SCOTT TRACEY

• “Willows” (All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages)

APRIL GENEVIEVE TUCHOLKE

• “The Flicker, the Fingers, the Beat, the Sigh” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)
• “Indigo and Shade” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

• “In the Future When All’s Well” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)

CARRIE VAUGHN

• “Now Purple With Love’s Wound” (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire)

JESSICA VERDAY

• “At The Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show” (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)

DEBBIE VIGUIE

• “Passing” with Nancy Holder  (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)

RACHEL VINCENT 

• “Fearless” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

SIOBHAN VIVIAN

• “Corny Won’t Kill Your Cred: Rearview Mirror Reflections on Feminism and Romance” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

NED VIZZINI

• “Apology #1” (21 Proms)

CECILY VON ZIEGESAR 

• “All She Wants” (21 Proms)

ADRIENNE MARIA VRETTOS

• “Mom Called, She Says You Have to Go to Prom” (21 Proms)

K.M. WALTON

• “Doomed?” (Behind The Song)

LESLEY WALTON

• ”El Destinos” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

DANIEL WATERS

• “Many Happy Returns” (Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love)

KATE WATSON

• “The Take-Back” (Welcome Home)

SARAH WEEKS

• “Superman is Dead” (Up All Night)

ELIZABETH WEIN

• ”The Color of the Sky” (A Tyranny of Petticoats)

KASIE WEST

• “Snow and Mistletoe” (Snow In Love)

SCOTT WESTERFIELD 

• “Definitional Chaos” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
• “Inoculata” (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
• “Stupid Perfect World” (Love Is Hell)

KAYLA WHALEY

• “Broken Body, Worthless Girl, and Other Lies I Called The Truth” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)
• “The Leap and the Fall” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

KIERSTEN WHITE

• “Tick, Tick, Boom” (Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances)
• “Welcome to Christmas, CA” (My True Love Gave To Me: 12 Holiday Stories)

FRAN WILDE

• “The Fall of the Bank of Usher” (His Hideous Heart)

RITA WILLIAMS 

• “Whoa!” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

SEAN WILLIAMS

• “The Legend Trap” (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories)

CAT WINTERS

• “Emmeline” (Slasher Girls & Monster Boys)

ELLEN WITTLINGER 

• “The we-are-like-everybody-else-game” (Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves)

ALYSSA WONG

• “Olivia’s Table” (A Thousand Beginnings and Endings)

CHRIS WOODING

• “People Watching” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)

JACQUELINE WOODSON

• “Geechee Girls Dancing” (21 Proms)

ERIKA T. WURTH

• “Dear Teen Me: It Would Have Changed Everything; It Would Have Changed Nothing” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

KRISTINE WYLLYS 

• “Ballad Of Weary Daughters” (Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens)

WENDY XU

• “The Princess and the Witch” (Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World)

GENE LUEN YANG

• “The Motherless One” (Up All Night)
• “Paladin/Samurai” (Fresh Ink)
• “Why I Won’t Be Watching the Last Airbender Movie” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)

LISA YEE

• “Everyone But You”  (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

JANE YOLEN

• “Andersen’s Witch” (Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron)
• “Gray” (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia)

DAVID YOO

• “Becoming Henry Lee” (Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices)
• “Everyone’s Nice” (Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance)

NICOLA YOON

• “The Department of Dead Love” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “Sera” (Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy)
• “Super Human” (Fresh Ink)

SUZANNE YOUNG

• “The Ride” (Behind The Song)

BRENNA YOVANOFF 

• “Daughters of Baba Yaga” (Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft)
• “Vega” (Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles)

SARA ZARR

• “This is My Audition Monologue” (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)

IBI ZOBOI 

• “Hourglass” (Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet)
• “The (R)evolution of Nigeria Jones” (Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America)

MARKUS ZUSAK

• “The First Six Killers” (This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge)