Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xxi • Introduction (xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths) • essay by Kate Bernheimer
• 1 • Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family • short story by Laura van den Berg
• 5 • Argos • short story by Joy Williams
• 8 • The Sisters • novelette by Sabina Murray
• 32 • Sawdust • short story by Edward Carey
• 42 • Friend Robin • short story by Maile Chapman
• 54 • The Veiled Prophet • novelette by David B.
• 85 • Henry and Booboo • novelette by Elanor Dymott
• 106 • Modern Coyote • short story by Shane Jones
• 117 • Devourings • short story by Aimee Bender (variant of The Devourings)
• 132 • Labyrinth • short story by Ron Currie, Jr.
• 140 • The Last Flight of Daedalus • short story by Anthony Marra
• 144 • Daphne • short story by Dawn Raffel
• 147 • Demeter • (2012) • short story by Maile Meloy
• 159 • Kid Collins • short story by Willy Vlautin
• 165 • Sleeping Beauty • short story by Gina Ochsner
• 172 • Galatea • (2013) • short story by Madeline Miller
• 186 • The Hand • short story by Manuel Muñoz
• 193 • The Dummy • short story by Benjamin Percy
• 199 • The Girl with the Talking Shadow • short story by Kate Bernheimer
• 209 • Wait and See • (2012) • short story by Edith Pearlman
• 224 • An Occasional Icarus • short story by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
• 237 • Killcrop • short story by Victor LaValle
• 246 • The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun • short story by Ben Loory
• 252 • Birdsong from the Radio • short story by Elizabeth McCracken
• 261 • The Lotus Eaters • short story by Aurelie Sheehan
• 269 • Slaves • short story by Elizabeth Evans
• 272 • Drona's Death • short story by Max Gladstone
• 286 • So Many-Headed Gates • short story by Sheila Heti
• 289 • The Status of Myth • short story by Kelly Braffet and Owen King
• 307 • Narcissus • short story by Zachary Mason
• 314 • Back to Blandon • short story by Michael Jeffrey Lee
• 323 • The Story I Am Speaking to You Now • short story by Davis Schneiderman
• 329 • The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt • short story by Imad Rahman
• 349 • Dark Resort • short story by Heidi Julavits
• 359 • Mystery Spot: 95065 • short story by Karen Tei Yamashita
• 364 • Lost Lake • novelette by Emma Straub and Peter Straub
• 388 • What Wants My Son • short story by Kevin Wilson
• 397 • Thousand • short story by Laird Hunt
• 403 • Belle-Medusa • novelette by Antoine Volodine [as by Manuela Draeger]
• 432 • The Swan's Wife • short story by Aamer Hussein
• 447 • Sanna • short story by Kathryn Davis
• 457 • Madame Liang • short story by Antoine Volodine [as by Lutz Bassmann]
• 465 • Sissy • short story by Kit Reed
• 474 • In a Structure Simulating an Owl • short story by Ander Monson
• 487 • Cat's Eye • short story by Donají Olmedo
• 492 • Betrayal • short story by Sigrid Nunez
• 499 • A Horse, a Vine • short story by Johanna Skibsrud
• 513 • The Hungers of an Old Language • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 520 • The White Horse • short story by Sarah Blackman