Introduction / Catherynne Valente -- Best of twines, the worst of rhymes : a tale of two c++ies (or, why game writing is bad and great) / Seth Dickinson -- Queering chaos / Foz Meadows -- Lois McMaster Bujold and being a grand master / LaShawn Wanak -- Give the family my love / A. T. Greenblatt -- Dead, in their uncontrollable power / Karen Osborne -- And now his lordship is laughing / Shiv Ramdas -- Ten excerpts from an annotated bibliography on the cannibal women of Ratnabar Island / Nibedita Sen -- A catalog of storms / Fran Wilde -- How the trick is done / A.C. Wise -- A strange uncertain light / G. V. Anderson -- For he can creep / Siobhan Carroll -- His footsteps, through darkness and light / Mimi Mondal -- Blur in the corner of your eye / Sarah Pinsker -- Excerpt : Carpe glitter / Cat Rambo -- Archronology of love / Caroline M. Yoachim -- Excerpt : A song for a new day / Sarah Pinsker -- Excerpt : Riverland / Fran Wilde -- Excerpt : Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom / Ted Chiang -- Excerpt : Haunting of Tram Car 015 / P. Djèlí Clark -- Excerpt : This is how you lose the time war / Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone -- Her silhouette, drawn in water / Vylar Kaftan -- Excerpt : Deep / Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes -- Excerpt : Catfish lullaby / A.C. Wise -- Biographies.