Shredding skin or How the world came to be / Jay Lake -- Hidden strength / Jaymee Goh -- Promised / Nisi Shawl -- The firebird / Emily B. Cataneo -- The little Begum / Indrapramit Das -- Forty pieces / Lucien Soulban -- Hatavat Chalom / Lillian Cohen-Moore -- The Leviathan of Trincomalee / Lucy A. Snyder -- The hand of Sa-Seti / Balogum Ojetade -- The Omai gods / Alex Bledsoe -- The governess and we / Benjanun Sriduangkaew -- Tangi a te ruru The cry of the morepork / Pip Ballantine -- The construct also dreams of flight / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz -- Budo or, The flying orchid / Tade Thompson -- The Şehrazatin Diyoramasi tour / S.J. Chambers -- The emperor everlasting / Nayad A. Monroe -- Mary Sundown and the clockmaker's children / Malon Edwards -- Good hunting / Ken Liu