Here are the stories I picked for the 2003 Strange Horizons Readers' Poll:

• The Book of Things Which Must Not Be Remembered, by C. Scavella Burrell
• Pressure, by Jeff Carson
• Sunfast, Shadowplay, and Saintswalk, by Rudi Dornemann
• The Cleansing Fire of God by Jay Lake
• Circus of Regret by Aynjel Kaye

Here are some other stories I like:

• Her, by Tobias S. Buckell
• Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar), by Cory Doctorow
• The Constellation Game, by Rudi Dornemann
• The Legend of Saint Ignatz the Provider, by Samantha Henderson
• Sleeping Beauty, by Bruce Holland Rogers