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Ok, here's everything that's a novelette. Five favorites in bold.

The Year Without Sunshine, Naomi Kritzer, Uncanny, novelette. Community solidarity and climate-collapse survival. Locus, spreadsheet.

The Fifteenth Saint, Ursula Whitcher, Asimov's, novelette. Spreadsheet.

One Man's Treasure, Sarah Pinsker, Uncanny, novelette. Garbage collectors and the perils of magical item disposal day. Locus, spreadsheet.

The Case of the Blood-Stained Tower, Ray Nayler, Asimov's, novelette. This is a case where if I tell you everything I liked about it, it would spoil the story, but I'm going to go ahead and spoil part of it and say that it's a sort of Holmes-and-Watson riff set in what I think, with a little research, is 17th-century Tehran. Spreadsheet.

Even If Such Ways Are Bad, Rich Larson, Reactor (the new name of Tor.com's online publishing, apparently), novelette. Living ships and memory modification and AI corporations who still need humans for some things.

On the Fox Roads, Nghi Vo, Reactor, novelette. Bank robbers, running away, finding yourself. Locus, spreadsheet.

Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Uncanny, novelette. Grief and deals with the devil. Locus, spreadsheet.

Contracting Iris, Peter Watts, Lightspeed, novelette. Disease and transformation. If you liked What Moves the Dead. Locus.

Ivy, Angelica, Bay, C.L. Polk, Reactor, novelette. A sequel to a story from a couple of years ago, about witches and bee magic. Locus, spreadsheet.

A Chronicle of the Mole-Year, Christi Nogle, Strange Horizons, novelette. A very different take on time loops, or maybe on virtual life.