Contents

Introduction: Not Afraid of the Dark | Paula Guran

Seasons of Glass and Iron | Amal El-Mohtar

The Future is Blue | Catherynne M. Valente

Grave Goods | Gemma Files

The Ballad of Black Tom | Victor LaValle

Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies | Brooke Bolander

An Ocean the Color of Bruises | Isabel Yap

The Iron Man | Max Gladstone

The Blameless | Jeffrey Ford

Birdfather | Stephen Graham Jones

The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch | Seanan McGuire

The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner | John Shirley

Fairy Tales are for White People | Melissa Yuan-Innes

Lullaby for a Lost World | Aliette de Bodard

The Finest, Fullest Flowering | Marc Laidlaw

Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik

Grave Goods | Priya Sharma

Braid of Days and Wake of Nights | E. Lily Yu

Wish You Were Here | Nadia Bulkin

Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left | Fran Wilde

The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10) | Caitlín R. Kiernan

Photograph | Steve Rasnic Tem

Red Dirt Witch | N. K. Jemisin

My Body, Herself | Carmen Maria Machado

The Sound of Salt and Sea | Kat Howard

A Dying of the Light | Rachel Caine

Postcards from Natalie | Carrie Laben

As Cymbals Clash | Cate Gardner

The Games We Play | Cassandra Khaw

Bright Crown of Joy | Livia Llewellyn

Mommy’s Little Man | Brian Hodge

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers | Alyssa Wong

Surfacing | Lisa L. Hannett

Meet Me at the Frost Fair | Alison Littlewood

Haunt: Under the House | Michael Wehunt

Whose Drowned Face Sleeps | An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky

When the Stitches Come Undone | A. C. Wise

The Red Forest | Angela Slatter

About the Authors

Acknowledgements