Best American Short Stories 2025, TheShort stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values, writes guest editor Celeste Ng. In a time when our values are being tested daily, its hard to think of anything more important. The Best American Short Stories 2025 resonates precisely at this pitch: twenty pieces that upend expectations and test the foundation of our beliefs. From a bereaved medical actress obsessed with a student in her rotation to a mysterious

death to the experiential

long-lasting weight loss

operations and photos

Kyouhei’s getting more and more jealous of her cousin Subaru for no real reason (that Nanami can tell)

Trillion Dollar Triage goes inside the Federal Reserve

But as midnight passes the New Year is marked by a white flash on the horizon - a German torpedo

proving that the next generation is already crushing it

The search takes Wolf across a city in the grip of the rise of a very British Fascism

Within these pages will be found anecdotes culled from forty-five years of living with dogs

And if he is ever to win a place in Dru's affections

Matt Mayberry is no exception

What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success