In 2009, he returned to short fiction, with five stories published in Asimov's magazine, one online at Tor.com, and several others elsewhere. Two of these stories were selected for three 2010 "Year's Best" anthologies. Another, "Under the Moons of Venus," appeared in five 2011 "Year's Best" anthologies. The novelette "Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone", co-written with Broderick's wife Barbara Lamar, appeared in the 2010 anthology "Engineering Infinity", edited by Jonathan Strahan. "The Beancounter's Cat" was selected in Gardner Dozois' 2012 "Year's Best" volume. "This Wind Blowing, and this Tide" was reprinted on-line in "Clarkesworld 100" in 2015.