Year's Best Lesbian <br>Fiction 2008 - Paperback

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