Introduction: launching rockets --
How to get back to the forest / Sofia Samatar --
Help me follow my sister into the Land of the Dead / Carmen Maria Machado --
Tortoiseshell cats are not refundable / Cat Rambo --
The bad graft / Karen Russell --
A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson --
Each to each / Seanan MaGuire --
Orges of East Africa / Sofia Samatar --
Cimmeria: from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology / Theodora Goss --
How the marquis got his coat back / Neil Gaiman --
Windows / Susan Palwick --
The thing about shapes to come / Adam-Troy Castro --
We are the cloud / Sam J. Miller --
The blue afternoon that lasted forever / Daniel H. Wilson --
Skullpocket / Nathan Ballingrud --
I can see right through you / Kelly Link --
The empties / Jess Row --
The one they took before / Kelly Sandoval --
The relieve box / T. C. Boyle --
How to become a robot in 12 easy steps / A. Merc Rustad --
Other notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2014.
