The Best American Short Stories 2018

<strong>Best-selling award-winning pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's<em> Best American Short Stories</em> the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.</strong> <p/> I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to <em>The Best American Short Stories 2018</em> but I also love when a story has a powerful message when a story teaches me something about the world. The artful profound and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper a Twitter addict and an Appalachian preacher--all characters and circumstances that show us what we need to know about the lives of others.