Meet me in Iram / Sofia Samatar (from Meet me in Iram/Those are pearls) --
The game of smash and recovery / Kelly Link (from Strange horizons) --
Interesting facts / Adam Johnson (from Harper's magazine) --
Planet Lion / Catherynne M. Valente (from Uncanny magazine) --
The apartment dweller's bestiary / Kij Johnson (from Clarkesworld magazine) --
By degrees and dilatory time / S. L. Huang (from Strange horizons) --
The mushroom queen / Liz Ziemska (from Tin house) --
The daydreamer by proxy / Dexter Palmer (from The bestiary) --
Tea time / Rachel Swirsky (from Lightspeed magazine) --
Headshot / Julian Mortimer Smith (from Terraform) --
The Duniazát / Salman Rushdie (from The New Yorker) --
No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven (from Asimov's science fiction) --
The thirteen mercies / Maria Dahvana Headley (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction) --
Lightning Jack's last ride / Dale Bailey (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction) --
Things you can buy for a penny / Will Kaufman (from Lightspeed magazine) --
Rat catcher's yellows / Charlie Jane Anders (from Press start to play) --
The heat of us: notes toward an oral history / Sam J. Miller (from Uncanny magazine) --
Three bodies at Mitanni / Seth Dickinson (from Analog science fiction and fact) --
Ambiguity machines: an examination / Vandana Singh (from Tor.com) --
The great silence / Ted Chiang (from e-flux journal).