“Introduction” © 2015 Jean Roberta, original to this volume. • “The Highwayman Come Riding” © 2014 M. Bennardo, first appeared in Daily Science Fiction, October 3rd, 2014 • “Sarah’s Child” © 2014 Susan Jane Bigelow, first appeared in Strange Horizons, May 19, 2014 • “Tears of the Gods” © 2014 Sarah L. Byrne, first appeared in The Future Fire #31 • “Morrigan in the Sunglare” © 2014 Seth Dickinson, first appeared in Clarkesworld, March 2014 • “Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land” © 2014 Ruthanna Emrys, first appeared in Tor.com • “Cold Wind” © 2014 Nicola Griffith, first appeared in Tor.com • “Game Fae” © 2014 Vivien Jackson, first appeared in Like a Trip Through the Mirror (ed. by Kathleen Tudor, Circlet Press) • “Repair Mission” © 2014 Annabeth Leong, first appeared in Coming Together: Among the Stars (ed. by Lynn Townsend, Coming Together) • “Nkásht íí” © 2014 Darcie Little Badger, first appeared in Strange Horizons, December 15, 2014 • “Knotting Grass, Holding Ring” © 2014 Ken Liu, first appeared in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (ed. by Rose Fox & Daniel Jose Older, Crossed Genres Publications) • “Because I Prayed This Word” © 2014 Alex Dally MacFarlane, first appeared in Strange Horizons, October 27, 2014 • “Spores” © 2014 Seanan McGuire, first appeared in The End is Nigh (ed. by John Joseph Adams, Broad Reach Publishing) • “Made Light” © 2014 Melissa Moorer, first appeared in The Future Fire #29 • “Real Monsters” © 2014 B R Sanders, first appeared in Cactus Heart #8 • “Final Escape” © 2014 Stacia Seaman, first appeared in Myth & Magic: Queer Fairy Tales (ed. by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Bold Strokes Books) • “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” © 2014 Benjanun Sriduangkaew, first appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #144 • “Skeletons” © 2014 Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, first appeared in Room, September 2014 • “Ghost-Writer” © 2014 Shannon Connor Winward, first appeared in Scigentasy #8