WINNER

• "Girl Reporter", Stephanie Harrell (One Story)

HONORABLE MENTION

• "Anyway", M. Rickert (Sci Fiction 24 Aug 2005)
• "Best New Horror", Joe Hill (Postscripts)
• "A History of the Ghosts of Judy, Tennessee", Michael Poore (StoryQuarterly)
• "Lemmings in the Third Year", Jerome Stueart (Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction)
• "The Mushroom Duchess", Deborah Roggie (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #17 2005)
• "Pip and the Fairies", Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons)
• "A Precursor of the Cinema", Steven Millhauser (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
• "Second Person, Present Tense", Daryl Gregory (Asimov's Sep 2005)
• "The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations", Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF Aug 2005)