My selection of the best print short fiction I've read for the year:
"The Wilds" by Julia Elliot in
Tin House, Volume 9, Number 1, Fantastic Women"Stone and the Librarian" by William Browning Spencer in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2007
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" by Kij Johnson in
Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
"The Constable of Abal" by Kelly Link in
Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
"Old Mr. Boudreaux" by Lisa Tuttle in
Subterranean #7 Guest Edited by Ellen Datlow
"Don't Ask" by M. Rickert in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007
"The Good Detective" by M. John Harrison in
Interzone, April 2007
"Bluecoat Jack" by Sarah Totton in
Text:Ur The New Book of Masks edited by Forrest Aguirre
"Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 2007
"Known Forms or How the Aliens Stole My Clone Babies for Jesus" by Melissa Moorer in
Say...what's the combination?"Do (This)" by Stephen Graham Jones in
Asimov's, December 2007
"How the World Became Quiet: A Post Human Creation Myth by Rachel Swirsky in
Electric Velocipede, #13, Fall 2007
"Spider Comes Home" by Gerald Houarner in
Weird Tales, April-May 2007
"Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" by John Lanagan in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 2007
"Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear in
Asimov's, June 2007
I wasn't able to read many many many of the online fantasy/sf/horror stories, so I excluded online publications from my list. But a special mention should go to the slipstream, flash fiction in the March issue of
Ideomancer.