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• xiii • Introduction: Better Than a Mirror (Three Messages and a Warning) • essay by Bruce Sterling
• xvii • When Fixed Ideas Take Flight • essay by Eduardo Jiménez Mayo
• xxi • Introduction (Three Messages and a Warning) • essay by Chris Nakashima-Brown [as by Chris N. Brown]
• 1 • Today, You Walk Along a Narrow Path • short story by María Isabel Aguirre
• 5 • The Guest • short story by Amparo Dávila (trans. of El huésped 1959)
• 13 • Murillo Park • short story by Agustín Cadena (trans. of Parque Murillo)
• 25 • The Hour of the Fireflies • short story by Karen Chacek (trans. of La hora de las luciérnagas 2010)
• 31 • Waiting • short story by Iliana Estañol
• 43 • Hunting Iguanas • short story by Hernán Lara Zavala (trans. of A la caza de iguanas 1985)
• 51 • 1965 • short story by Edmée Pardo
• 59 • Variation on a Theme of Coleridge • short story by Alberto Chimal (trans. of Variación sobre un tema de Coleridge 2009)
• 61 • Photophobia • short story by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras (trans. of Fotofobia 2000)
• 79 • The Last Witness to Creation • short story by Jesús Ramírez Bermúdez (trans. of El último testigo de la creación 2009)
• 89 • Rebellion • short story by Queta Navagómez
• 91 • Future Perfect • short story by Gerardo Sifuentes (trans. of Radiotechnika Cantina 1999)
• 101 • Luck Has Its Limits • short story by Beatriz Escalante (trans. of La suerte tiene un límite 2001)
• 111 • The Stone • short story by Donají Olmedo (trans. of La piedra unpublished)
• 115 • Trompe-l'œil • short story by Mónica Lavín (trans. of Trampantojo 2012)
• 121 • Lions • short story by
  Bernardo Fernández^?Bernardo Fernandez
  (trans. of Los leones 2003)
• 129 • A Pile of Bland Desserts • short story by Yussel Dardón
• 135 • Amalgam • short story by Amélie Olaiz
• 139 • The Nahual Offering • short story by Carmen Rioja
• 147 • Pachuca Second Street • short story by Lucía Abdó (trans. of Segunda calle de Pachuca unpublished)
• 151 • Wittgenstein's Umbrella • short story by Óscar de la Borbolla (trans. of El paraguas de Wittgenstein 2009)
• 157 • Mannequin • short story by Esther M. Garcia
• 159 • Mr. Strogoff • short story by Guillermo Samperio (trans. of Señor Strogoff 2013)
• 163 • The Mediator • short story by Ana Gloria Álvarez Pedrajo
• 165 • The Pin • short story by Leo Mendoza
• 171 • Future Nereid • short story by Gabriela Damián Miravete (trans. of Futura Nereida 2010)
• 183 • Pink Lemonade • short story by Liliana V. Blum (trans. of Limonada rosa 2010)
• 191 • The Return of Night • short story by René Roquet (trans. of Cuando recuerdas la noche anterior 2005)
• 201 • Three Messages and a Warning in the Same Email • short story by Ana Clavel (trans. of Una advertencia y tres mensajes en el mismo correo 2008)
• 207 • The President Without Organs • short story by Pepe Rojo (trans. of Un presidente sin órganos 1999)
• 217 • The Transformist • short story by Horacio Sentíes Madrid (trans. of La transformista 2010)
• 225 • The Drop • short story by Claudia Guillén (trans. of La gota 2000)
• 231 • Wolves • short story by
  José Luis Zárate^?Jose Luis Zarate
  (trans. of Lobos 1999)
• 235 • The Infamous Juan Manuel • short story by Bruno Estañol
• 245 • About the Authors (Three Messages and a Warning) • essay by uncredited