Special thanks to C. C. Finlay, Gordon Van Gelder, and more than three dozen authors who contacted me through Facebook and Twitter with suggestions.—PRLG
“Trickster” © 2008 Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due. First publication: The Darker Mask, eds. Gary Phillips & Christopher Chambers (Tor).
“Ys” © 2009 Aliette de Bodard. First publication: Interzone #222.
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” © 2016 Brooke Bolander. First publication: Uncanny #13.
“Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate” © 2018 Anya Johanna DeNiro. First publication: Shimmer #43.
“Chivalry” © 1992 Neil Gaiman. First publication: Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, eds. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward E. Kramer (Unnameable Press).
“Calypso in Berlin” © 2005 Elizabeth Hand. First publication: Sci Fiction, 13 July 2005.
“Seeds” © 2015 Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter. First publication: Midnight and Moonshine (Ticondaroga Press).
“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” © 2012 Maria Dahvana Headley. First publication: Lightspeed, July 2012.
“The God of Au” © 2008 Ann Leckie. First publication: Helix, Spring 2008.
“The Gorgon” © 1982 Tanith Lee. First publication: Shadows 5, ed. Charles L. Grant (Doubleday).
“Foxfire, Foxfire” © 2016 Yoon Ha Lee. First publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #194.
“Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood” © 1990 Charles de Lint. First publication: Pulphouse, Issue Seven.
“Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch” © 2017 Darcie Little Badger. First publication: Strange Horizons, 10 July 2017.
“The Ten Suns” © 2014 Ken Liu. First publication: Surviving the Collapse, eds. Alex Shvartsman & William Snee (Deorc Enterprises).
“Immortal Snake” © 2008 Rachel Pollack. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008.
“Leda” © 2002 M. Rickert. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2002.
“How to Survive an Epic Journey” © 2017 Tansy Rayner Roberts. First publication: Uncanny, November/December 2017.
“Ogres of East Africa” © 2014 Sofia Samatar. First publication: Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, eds. Daniel José Older & Rose Fox (Crossed Genres).
“Simargl and the Rowan Tree” © 2006 Ekaterina Sedia. First publication: Mythic 2, ed. Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books).
“Thesea and Astaurius” © 2013 Priya Sharma. First publication: Interzone #246.
“Wonder-Worker-of-the-World” © 2005 Nisi Shawl. First publication: Reflection’s Edge, May 2005.
“Zhuyin” © 2019 John Shirley. Original to this volume.
“Lost Lake” © 2013 Peter and Emma Straub. First publication: xoOrpheus: Fifty New Myths, ed. Kate Bernheimer (Penguin).
“A Memory of Wind” © 2009 Rachel Swirsky. First publication: Tor.com, November 11, 2009.
“A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie” © 2011 Sonya Taaffe. First publication: Not One of Us, April 2011.
“White Lines on a Green Field” © 2010 Catherynne M. Valente. First publication: Ventriloquism (PS Publishing).
“Armless Maidens of the American West” © 2012 Genevieve Valentine. First publication: Apex Magazine, August 2012.