The Best American Short Stories 2023A collection of the years best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Without stories, we cannot live well, shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of contemporary fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become

the long days of summer wind down

Regardless of what you want to accomplish

all those years ago

and adventure—no prior knowledge of the Last Apprentice series is necessary

‘This was a book that had me smiling

Tom is intent on saving three missing girls

When Sammy attempts to solve the problem

In the pages of this wickedly clever little book

Darren’s wooing his crush with a song—one he never meant for her to hear

Yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why

soon to be a series on Paramount+

calls for readers to choose action over complacency