Year’s Best Lesbian Fiction 2008 Fran Walker, editor 182 pp., 5.5×8.5 $11.95, £7.80 paperback 978-1-934452-28-8

The first annual collection of lesbian short stories published in 2008, selected from over eighty nominations by Fran Walker, author of Lavender Ink: Writing and Selling Lesbian Fiction and judges, Lynne Pierce, moderator of lesfic_unbound and Joan Opyr, author of Idaho Code.

This year’s stories originally appeared in Read These Lips: Second Helpings, Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Khimairal Ink, Toe to Toe: Standing Tall and Proud, and Ewaipanoma by Nebula Winner, Mary A. Turzillo.

• “Sweet Baby Dyke” by Renée Strider
• “Silent Journey” by DeJay
• “One Horse Town” by Melissa Scott
• “The Abomination of the Blue Hibiscus” by Ovidia Yu
• “Gay Day” by Sandra Barret
• “Mind Games” by Tracey Shellito
• “Water Rites” by Mary Douglas
• “Games With Chance” by Andi Marquette
• “Ewaipanoma” by Mary A. Turzillo
• “Kissing on the Ferris Wheel” by Meg White
• “Words Like Candy Conversation Hearts” by Kathleen Bradean
• “To Dance With No Music” by Lois C. Hart
• “The One I Left Behind” by M. Christian