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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.

A man who cannot count his years moves between worlds living the lives of other men. A soulless ebony giantess seeks freedom in warfare but cannot escape the tragedy buried in her forgotten past. An aging mercenary and nonbeliever may be the unwitting savior of his—and all—times. A blinded war hero barters for a mythical stone in the hope that it may restore his former glory. An undead God seeks an end to his torment by bringing about an end to all things.