Pushcart 2026 L: Wrapping Up Year 50

Here are 77 brilliant selections from 62 presses, plus lists of special mentions. Our devotion extends to all of the editors and writers worldwide who helped to gather this Small Good Thing, our 50th year! And of course our thanks to you Dear Reader. Without your caring it is all futile. Bill Henderson, Introduction You’re welcome, Mr. Henderson. And thank you for providing such a broad view of the year’s short publications. I’m going to get to my usual wrap-up content of general impressions and favorite pieces in a moment, but first, I’d like to try to find out more about who is reading here. I don’t really understand WordPress stats, so I’m going to ask more directly: Who are you, and why are you reading here? While I get very few hits on new posts, at least until someone assigns them for a class (and even then, AI summaries have really taken their toll), I recently started paying attention to email stats. It seems somewhere between 30 and 70 email subscribers actually open those…