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Sol Prayer: By the Oracle Duality Chang Shen / Song of the Star Cradle by C.S. MacCath

Bal Macabre by Theodora Goss

A Dragon’s Advice to Young Heroes by Constance Cooper

Ezilie in Cavaillon by Sheree Renee Thomas

Tarahumara Chiles by Gary Every

At the Earth’s Core by Darrell Schweitzer

To a Lover Dying Old by Lida Broadhurst

The Garden Party by Wanda Waterman St. Louis

Long Ago by Jaime Lee Moyer

Transformation by Julie Shiel

Atthis in Boston by Sonya Taaffe

Conjunctivitis of the Third Eye by Danny Adams

Carne Vale by Sonya Taaffe

Always on a Sunday by K.L. Monahan

Sigyn’s Lament by Erzebet YellowBoy

Charon of Birds by Darja Malcolm-Clarke

Two Rivers by JoSelle Vanderhooft
 
Illustrations by Paula Friedlander, Bob Snare,
Don Eaves and Terrence Mollendor, and Daniel Trout.

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The Longest Nights by Constance Cooper

The Descent of the Corn-Queen of the Midwest by Catherynne M. Valente

Stephanos by C.S. MacCath

Death and the Miser by A.D. Eldritch

Wintertime Loves by Sonya Taaffe

Termination Shock, Voyager by Ann K. Schwader

From the Oort Cloud by Deborah P. Kolodji, oino sakai, Teri Santitoro, Mary Margaret Serpento and ushi

Dragons Complaining, Overhead by Suzette Haden Elgin

Trapped Words by Anna Tambour

Cobwebs in Heaven by Ian Watson

Africa Screams by Mikal Trimm

muscle boy by Michael A. Arnzen

letter from newton to his mother by John Peery

The Minotaur’s Last Letter to His Mother by JoSelle Vanderhooft
 
Illustrations by Paula Friedlander, Stephanie Rodriguez,
Bob Snare, Don Eaves and Terrence Mollendor,
and Daniel Trout.

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The Queen of Hearts by Catherynne M. Valente

Hunger by Kristine Ong Muslim

Arise by Aurelio Rico Lopez III

Highbinder by Marge Simon

Lacunae by Yoon Ha Lee

How the Sea People Mourn by Constance Cooper

Les Berceaux by Jaida Jones

Helen Returns to Troy by Darrell Schweitzer

Not the Song of Briseis by Sonya Taaffe

Ibis, Scribe by Sonya Taaffe

Crow Eats Carrion by Carma Lynn Park

Healing Ritual by Lisa M. Bradley

Unapishtim on Friday After Dessert by Danny Adams

Motion by Abraham Linik

Even Old Ogres Must Pass by Karen R. Porter

Inuit Sky by Gary Every

Grooves to Erakis by Drew Morse
 
Illustrations by Paula Friedlander, Don Eaves
and Terrence Mollendor, and Bob Snare.

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Genetics by Charles Saplak

Tarot in the Dungeon by Sonya Taaffe

The Magic of Crystals by Christina Sng

Rapunzel, Rapunzella by Kendall Evans

The Bitter Watches by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Wordhoard by Ursula K. Le Guin

Survive by John Peery

Lost Over East Texas by Ann K. Schwader

Getting the Most Out of Your Retracive Tools by Robert Frazier

All That Surrounds Us by Roger Dutcher

The Last Cut by Jennifer Crow

Stardust by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

Curse of Tinkerbell’s Husband by Bruce Boston

Prosthetic Wings by K.S. Hardy

Eelgrass and Blue by Sonya Taaffe

The Damsel’s Unicorn by Yoon Ha Lee
 
Illustrations by Tim Mullins, Don Eaves
and Terrence Mollendor, Paula Friedlander,
Bob Snare, Gary Bryant, and Daniel Trout.

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Saint Neil by K.S. Hardy

If Only by Kendall Evans

Three Observations Upon the Discovery that Water Once Existed on Mars by Bud Webster

Rude Awakening by Bud Webster

Giant Bread by K.S. Hardy

High Concept by Charles Saplak

Ceremony by Serena Fusek

The Night Priests by Ann K. Schwader

The Laying-Out by Sonya Taaffe

Pasupati by Ursula K. Le Guin

Azurite Mine by Gary Every

The Prairie Whales Are All Extinct by Nicholas Ozment

Discovery of an Idiosyncratic Dada Two Clicks from Entropy by Charlee Jacob

The Wyvern’s Workday by Constance Cooper

Enlitenment – as Near as Your All-Nite Pharmacy by Laurel Winter

How to Confuse a RoboDetective by Bruce Boston

Tzaddik by Sonya Taaffe

Drums by Ursula K. Le Guin
 
Illustrations by Don Eaves and Terrence
Mollendor, Tim Mullins, Bob Snare, Paula Friedlander,
Gary Bryant, Daniel Trout and Rowan-Michelle Black.