Best American short stories 2018 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Roxane Gay with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Roxane Gay.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Cougar / Maria Anderson -- A family / Jamel Brinkley -- The art of losing / Yoon Choi -- Los Angeles / Emma Cline -- Unearth / Alicia Elliott -- Boys go to Jupiter / Danielle Evans -- A history of China / Carolyn Ferrell -- Come on, silver / Ann Glaviano -- What got into us / Jacob Guajardo -- Everything Is Far from Here / Cristina Henriquez -- Good with boys / Kristen Iskandrian -- Control Negro / Jocelyn Nicole Johnson -- The brothers Brujo / Matthew Lyons -- A big true / Dina Nayeri -- Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure / Téa Obreht -- The baptism / Ron Rash -- Suburbia! / Amy Silverberg -- The prairie wife / Curtis Sittenfeld -- Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver / Rivers Solomon -- What Terrible Thing It WasBack Matter / Esmé Weijun Wang -- Contributors' Notes -- Other Distinguished Stories of 2017 -- American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories.

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.