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“Through the Flash” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. First published in Friday Black. Copyright © 2018 by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Reprinted from Friday Black by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
“Skinned” by Lesley Nneka Arimah. First published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 53, 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Lesley Nneka Arimah. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the author.
“Godmeat” by Martin Cahill. First published in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96, May 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Martin Cahill. Reprinted by permission of Martin Cahill.
“Pitcher Plant” by Adam-Troy Castro. First published in Nightmare Magazine, April 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Reprinted by permission of Adam-Troy Castro.
“Dead Air” by Nino Cipri. First published in Nightmare Magazine, August 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Nino Cipri. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” by P. Djèlí Clark. First published in Fireside Fiction, February 2018. Copyright © 2018 by P. Djèlí Clark. Reprinted by permission of P. Djèlí Clark.
“STET” by Sarah Gailey. First published in Fireside Fiction, October 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Sarah Gailey. Reprinted by permission of Sarah Gailey.
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” by Daryl Gregory. First published in Tor.com, September 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Daryl Gregory. Reprinted by permission of Tor.com.
“Variations on a Theme from Turandot” by Ada Hoffmann. First published in Strange Horizons, May 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Carolyn Lamb. Reprinted by permission of Carolyn Lamb.
“The Storyteller’s Replacement” by N. K. Jemisin. First published in How Long ’til Black Future Month?, November 2018. Copyright © 2018 by N. K. Jemisin. Reprinted by permission of N. K. Jemisin.
“Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung” by Usman Malik. First published in Nightmare Magazine, November 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Usman Malik. Reprinted by permission of Usman Malik.
“Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women” by Theodore McCombs. First published in Nightmare Magazine, February 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Theodore McCombs. Reprinted by permission of Theodore McCombs.
“What Everyone Knows” by Seanan McGuire. First published in Kaiju Rising 2: Reign of Monsters, November 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Seanan McGuire. Reprinted by permission of Seanan McGuire.
“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” by Annalee Newitz. First published in Future Tense Fiction, December 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Annalee Newitz. Reprinted by permission of Annalee Newitz.
“Poor Unfortunate Fools” by Silvia Park. First published in The Margins (Transpacific Literary Project), November 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Silvia Park. Reprinted by permission of Silvia Park.
“The Kite Maker” by Brenda Peynado. First published in Tor.com, August 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Brenda Peynado. Reprinted by permission of Brenda Peynado and Tor.com.
“What Gentle Women Dare” by Kelly Robson. First published in Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Kelly Robson. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Hard Mary” by Sofia Samatar. First published in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 100, September 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Sofia Samatar. Reprinted by permission of Sofia Samatar.
“On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog” by Adam R. Shannon. First published in Apex Magazine, December 2018. Copyright © 2018 by Adam R. Shannon. Reprinted by permission of Adam R. Shannon.
“Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good” by LaShawn M. Wanak. First published in FIYAH, Summer 2018. Copyright © 2018 by LaShawn M. Wanak. Reprinted by permission of LaShawn M. Wanak.