CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sneakers

Michael Libling

re: Your Wedding

Ruth Nestvold

Everything Is Fixed Now

K. G. Anderson

His Sweat Like Stars on the Rio Grande

Janis Ian

Agnosia

J. M. Sidorova

The Adventure of You

Paul La Farge

N. Lee Wood

Birds

Deepak Unnikrishnan

The Only Constant

Leslie Howle

The Terrific Leader

Harry Turtledove

Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday

Heather Lindsley

The Levellers

Deji Bryce Olukotun

No Point Talking

Geoff Ryman

Glow

J.S. Breukelaar

Precaution at Penn Station

Michael Kandel

Newsletter

Jennifer Marie Brissett

Statues of Limitations

Jay Russell

Suffocation

Robert Reed

Application for Asylum

Eileen Gunn

Welcome to Triumph Band

Yoon Ha Lee

Loser

Matthew Hughes

We All Have Hearts of Gold®

Leo Vladimirsky

Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner

Marguerite Reed

Ticket to Ride

Eric James Fullilove

Burning Down the House

Ted White

Dangerous

Lisa Mason

Class Assignment

Thomas Kaufsek

Walls

Paul Witcover

The Passion According to Mike

Scott Bradfield

Bright Sarasota Where the Circus Lies Dying

James Sallis

The Name Unspoken

Richard Bowes

The Elites

Stephanie Feldman

January 2018

Barry N. Malzberg

Farewell

Mary Anne Mohanraj

The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog

Ron Goulart

Handmaid’s Other Tale

Jane Yolen

Sanctuary

Brian Francis Slattery

One Fell Swoop

James Morrow

BK Girls

TS Vale

Isn’t Life Great?

Don D’Ammassa

The Men Will Be Hungry Afterwards

Ray Vukcevich

The Road South

Madeleine E. Robins and Becca Caccavo

Skippy’s Visit East

Michael Kandel

Designed for Your Safety

Elizabeth Bourne

Extreme Bedding

David Marusek

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