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• Introduction (Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling) • essay by Jerry Gordon
• On Loving Bad Boys: A Villainelle • (2016) • poem by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
• Single, Singularity • (2016) • short story by John Hornor Jacobs
• Lazzrus • (2016) • short story by Nisi Shawl
• Seeking Truth • (2016) • short story by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
• Thwock • (2016) • short story by Michelle Muenzler
• Can You Tell Me How to Get to Paprika Place? • (2016) • short story by Michael R. Underwood
• Chosen • (2016) • short story by Anton Strout
• The White Dragon • (2016) • short story by Alyssa Wong
• Her Curse, How Gently It Comes Undone • (2016) • short story by Haralambi Markov
• Burning Bright • (2016) • short story by Shanna Germain
• Santa CIS (Episode 1: No Saint) • (2016) • novelette by Alethea Kontis
• Requiem for a Manic Pixie Dream • (2016) • short story by Katy Harrad and Greg Stolze
• The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend • (2016) • short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• The First Blood of Poppy Dupree • (2016) • short story by Delilah S. Dawson
• Red Light • (2016) • short story by Sara M. Harvey
• Until There Is Only Hunger • [Titan and Serpent • 3] • (2016) • short story by Michael Matheson
• Super Duper Fly • (2015) • short story by Maurice Broaddus
• Drafty as a Chain Mail Bikini • (2016) • short story by Kat Richardson
• Swan Song • (2016) • short story by Michelle Lyons-McFarland
• Those Who Leave • (2016) • short story by Michael Choi
• Nouns of Nouns: A Mini Epic • (2016) • short story by Alex Shvartsman
• Excess Light • (2016) • short story by Rahul Kanakia
• The Origin of Terror • (2016) • short story by Sunil Patel
• The Tangled Web • (2016) • short story by Ferrett Steinmetz
• Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa, Tfu, Tfu, Tfu • (2016) • short story by Alisa Schreibman
• Real Women Are Dangerous • (2016) • short story by Rati Mehrotra
• I'm Pretty Sure I've Read This Before... • (2016) • essay by Patrick Hester
• Fractured Souls • essay by Lucy A. Snyder
• Into the Labyrinth: The Heroine's Journey • (2016) • essay by A. C. Wise
• Escaping the Hall of Mirrors • (2016) • essay by Victor J. Raymond [as by Victor Raymond]
• Tropes as Erasers: A Transgender Perspective • (2016) • essay by Keffy R. M. Kehrli
• Afterword (Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling) • essay by Jaym Gates and Monica Valentinelli
• Trope Definitions/Index of Tropes • essay by uncredited