Meet me in Iram / Sofia Samatar (from Meet me in Iram/Those are pearls) -- 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) -- Apartment dweller's bestiary / Kij Johnson (from Clarkesworld magazine) -- By degrees and dilatory time / S. L. Huang (from Strange horizons) -- Mushroom queen / Liz Ziemska (from Tin house) -- Daydreamer by proxy / Dexter Palmer (from The bestiary) -- Tea time / Rachel Swirsky (from Lightspeed magazine) -- Headshot / Julian Mortimer Smith (from Terraform) -- Duniazát / Salman Rushdie (from The New Yorker) -- No placeholder for you, my love / Nick Wolven (from Asimov's science fiction) -- 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) -- 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) -- Great silence / Ted Chiang (from e-flux journal).