| The Best American Short Stories 2003 | |
| Editor: | Katrina Kenison and Walter Mosley |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published: | 2003 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0618197338 |
| Preceded By: | The Best American Short Stories 2002 |
| Followed By: | The Best American Short Stories 2004 |
The Best American Short Stories 2003, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Walter Mosley.[1] [2] [3]
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Rationing" | The Missouri Review | |
| "Mines" | Zoetrope | |
| "Coins" | Harper's Magazine | |
| "Heaven Lake" | Harvard Review | |
| "Kavita Through Glass" | Tin House | |
| "Ghost Knife" | Ploughshares | |
| "Marie-Ange's Ginen" | Callaloo | |
| "Moriya" | Ontario Review | |
| "Every Tongue Shall Confess" | Ploughshares | |
| "Further Emergencies" | Esquire | |
| "Devotion" | The Yale Review | |
| "Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down" | Tin House | |
| Louise Erdrich | "Shamengwa" | The New Yorker |
| "The Shell Collector" | Chicago Review | |
| "Baby Wilson" | The New Yorker | |
| "Night Talkers" | Callaloo | |
| "Johnny Hamburger" | Esquire | |
| "The Bees" | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern | |
| "Space" | The Georgia Review | |
| "Compassion" | Tin House | |
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2002" were Andrea Barrett, Rick Bass, Robert Coover, Donald Hall, Brad Vice, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, John Updike and John Edgar Wideman.