Introduction / Bill Campbell --
Walking awake / N.K.Jemisin --
The black box / Malka Older --
A song transmuted / Sarah Pinsker --
Underworld 101 / Mame Bougouma Diene --
The faithful soldier, prompted / Saladin Ahmed --
Beautiful curse / Kristine Ong Muslim --
Real Boys / Clara Kumagai --
Born out of frost / Mélanie Fazi --
The coffin-maker's daughter / Angela Slatter
I make people do bad things /
Blood drive / Jeffrey Ford --
Six things we found during the autopsy / Kuzhali Manickavel --
Madeleine / Amal El-Mohtar --
Notes from liminal spaces / Hiromi Goto --
Medusa / Christopher Brown --
A universal elegy / Tang Fei --
Lalibela / Gabriel Teodros --
The copper scarab / K. Tempest Bradford --
The arrangement of their parts / Shweta Narayan
Lacrimosa / Silvia Moreno-Garcia --
Those shadows laugh / Geoff Ryman --
There is nothing to bind our hearts together / Sabrina Huang --
Douen Calling / Brandon Mc Ivor --
Spectral evidence / Victor LaValle --
A model apartment / Bryan Thao Worra --
Water in the rice fields up to my knees / Johary Ravaloson --
The spooky Japanese girl --
The executioner / Jennifer Marie Brissett --
Girl, I love you / Nadia Bulkin --
The castaway / Sergio Gaut vel Hartman --
A good home / Karin Lowachee --
How to piss off a failed super soldier / John Chu --
Super duper fly / Maurice Broaddus --
Rabbits / Csilla Kleinheincz --
A different mistake / Eve Shi --
Lost bonds / Margrét Helgadóttir --
The bones shine through with light / Joyce Chng --
Ana's tag / William Alexander --
Flush / Francesco Verso --
No kissing he dolls unless Jimi Hendrix is playing / Clifton Gachagua --
A pinch of salt / Hal Duncan --
Escape to hell / Iheoma Nwachukwu --
The lady and the poet / Walter Tierno --
Salvation / Claudia De Bella --
How to remember to forget to remember the old war / Rose Lemberg --
Bottled-up messages / Basma Abdel Aziz --
The day it all ended / Charlie Jane Anders