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“Mermaid River” by Alexia Arthurs, from How to Love a Jamaican: Stories, first appeared in The Sewanee Review. Copyright © 2018 by Alexia Arthurs. Used by permission of Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Julia and Sunny” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum first appeared in Ploughshares. Copyright © 2017 by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Aguacero” by Patricia Engel first appeared in Kenyon Review. Copyright © 2018 by Patricia Engel. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Funny Little Snake” by Tessa Hadley first appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2017 by Tessa Hadley. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Goodnight Nobody” by Sarah Hall, from Madame Zero, first appeared in One Story. Copyright © 2017 by Sarah Hall. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Mr. Can’aan” by Isabella Hammad first appeared in The Paris Review. Copyright © 2017 by Isabella Hammad. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Prime” by Caoilinn Hughes first appeared at Granta.com. Copyright © 2018 by Caoilinn Hughes. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Synchronicity” by John Keeble first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 2017 by John Keeble. Reprinted by permission of the author and Denise Shannon Literary Agency.
“Girl of Few Seasons” by Rachel Kondo first appeared in Ploughshares Solos. Copyright © 2017 by Rachel Kondo. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Lagomorph” by Alexander MacLeod first appeared in Granta. Copyright © 2017 by Alexander MacLeod. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“No Spanish” by Moira McCavana first appeared in Harvard Review. Copyright © 2017 by Moira McCavana. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Soma” by Kenan Orhan first appeared in The Massachusetts Review. Copyright © 2018 by Kenan Orhan Dannenberg. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Bad Girl” by Valerie O’Riordan first appeared in LitMag. Copyright © 2017 by Valerie O’Riordan. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Unstuck” by Stephanie Reents first appeared in Witness. Copyright © 2018 by Stephanie Reents. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Slingshot” by Souvankham Thammavongsa first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 2018 by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Flowers for America” by Doua Thao first appeared in Fiction. Copyright © 2018 by Doua Thao. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Omakase” by Weike Wang first appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 2018 by Weike Wang. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Shrew Tree” by Liza Ward first appeared in ZYZZYVA. Copyright © 2017 by Liza Ward. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“610 North, 610 West” by Bryan Washington, from Lot: Stories, first appeared in Tin House. Copyright © 2019 by Bryan Washington. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Maps and Ledgers” by John Edgar Wideman, from American Histories, first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 2018 by John Edgar Wideman. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.