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<title>"Death Follows Us to Restaurants" by Vylar Kaftan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Maggie was still in the hospital, her brother Colin died.  When the nurses told her the news, she turned away to grieve privately.  Surgical complications, they said.  The kidney he'd donated was sewn up inside her like a secret.  On her nightstand stood a vase of wilted daffodils he'd sent.  She felt like death--her old companion--had taken the wrong soul. [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Annamarie's eighth birthday when the north grove started eating people.  One by one the migrant workers started disappearing, and eventually none of the rest would work there anymore. [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bink occupied the booth farthest from the bar, tucked in a dank corner forgotten by the waitress and possibly by time itself, surrounded by framed photos of his mother's New Orleans, the one before the storms and the invasion, not the one overrun with Drones and hoodoo walkers and utterly devoid of any real life. [...]]]></description>
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<title>"The Firework-Makers" by Sonya Taaffe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We smell of gunpowder and scorching oak/our faces ochre and soapstone with sweat, [...]]]></description>
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<title>"Not the Territory" by J. C. Runolfson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the quest is complete and/the kitchen boy crowned,/they all want to know how he did it, [...]]]></description>
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<title>"Sibyl" by Jo Walton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[She does not see you, your uncertainty,/hesitating on her threshold. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"The Stamp" by Terry Bisson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody collects something, even if it's only stamps. Or dreams. Orville collected stamps. His big brother, Wilbur, collected dreams. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"The Hero of Ward 6" by Sandra McDonald</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home, Jack saw a crude sign written on cardboard and nailed to an oak tree near his house: "Poison on gras! Harmful too dogs. BeWARE." [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"The Wreck of the Grampus" by Jeremy Adam Smith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange, to employ a pen and form words on a page. My primary fingers were not designed for such a function, and so each serif and ascender is a laborious adventure. As I write the lifeboat rocks and thrums in the wind, portholes aflame, the bottle-shaped interior bathed in the webb's low cyanotic fire. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"Hungry: Some Ghost Stories" by Samantha Henderson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They gather in the kitchen sometimes; I can feel their cold bellies pressing into my back as I stir the soup, the risotto, curious as they strain to look over my shoulder. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"Animal Rescue" by Deborah P. Kolodji</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[fallen bricks spill/from the welcome sign,/there are no zebras
in this abandoned zoo/ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>"Autopoiesis" by Sonya Taaffe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This revolution writes itself./Composed not of students lounging among secondhand/books and cinderblock shelves, smoking/through thumbtacked drywall to the world/ [...]]]></description>
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