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• 1 • A Claw from the Western Paradise • short story by Gwendolyn Clare
• 7 • The Good Daughter • short story by Aaron Polson
• 14 • Ghost Horses and Dream Dogs • short story by Shanna Germain
• 23 • The Gold in the Straw • short story by Amanda C. Davis
• 27 • The Bright Air That Breathes No Pain • short story by Eric Schaller
• 41 • Boll Weevil • short story by Nathaniel Lee
• 44 • The Customs Shed • short story by John Walters
• 55 • Ezekiel • short story by Desmond Warzel
• 68 • Ocean Daughters • short story by Jaime Lee Moyer
• 78 • City of Bones • short story by Deborah Walker
• 86 • In Ruins • short story by J. M. Odell
• 100 • In the Shadow of God, There Is Fire • short story by Sandra M. Odell
• 113 • Lord God Bird • short story by Sarah Frost
• 118 • Norms • short story by Cynthia Ward
• 129 • To Rule, Do Nothing • short story by T. F. Davenport
• 131 • Zafir, the Saudi Superhero • short story by Madhvi Ramani
• 139 • Twilight's Last Gleaming • short story by H. L. Fullerton
• 143 • A Lack of Charity • short story by James Beamon
• 151 • To Give the Perfect Dewdrop • short story by Dawn Lloyd
• 155 • The Party • short story by Christopher Nadeau
• 164 • The Reel • short story by H. M. Tanzen
• 169 • The Last Cyborg • short story by M. Yang
• 180 • A Feast of Kings • short story by David Sklar
• 185 • The Charnel Pit • short story by Stephen Gaskell
• 200 • God in the Machine • short story by Charles Patrick Brownson
• 215 • Seedling • short story by Eric Zivovic
• 217 • The Loss of Pain • short story by Amy Treadwell
• 233 • Mikeys • (2004) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 245 • Afterward (Last Contact) • essay by Jamie Lackey and Stephen V. Ramey [as by Jamie Lackey and Steve Ramey]