CONTENTS

Introduction: Monsters • PAULA GURAN

The God Bag • CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN

The Nag Bride • A. C. WISE

Mr. D eath • ALIX E. HARROW

Wolfsbane • MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY

For Sale by Owner • ELIZABETH HAND

Barefoot and Midnight • SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS

Shuck • G. V. ANDERSON

The Wishing Pool • TANANARIVE DUE

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather • SARAH PINSKER

Refinery Road • STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES

The Bletted Woman • REBECCA CAMPBELL

Beneath the Forest’s Wilting Leaves • STEVE TOASE

Blood Ties • JADE WILBURN

Jenny Greenteeth • ALISON LITTLEWOOD

Jetty Sara • GLEN HIRSHBERG

The Sequence • BRIAN EVENSON

Caving • DAVID J. SCHOW

Hand-Me-Down • SEAN PADRAIC BIRNIE

In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi • MOLLY TANZER

Laughter Among the Trees • SUZAN PALUMBO

And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared • CHIMEDUM OHAEGBU

Across the Dark Water • RICHARD KADREY

Where We Will Go On Together • J. S. BREUKELAAR

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

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