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Laila Amado: The Many Names of Eels (Issue 40)

Brian Ames: Prayer for the Dying (Issue 8)

Neil Auch: A Song for the Centipedes (Issue 39) | website

Julia August: Delia’s Door (Issue 28) | website

Daniel Ausema: Scolyard’s “The Constructs Forsee Their Doom” (Issue 23) | website

Neil Ayers: In the Rose Garden (Issue 16) | Coma (Issue 10)

D. Morgan Ballmer: That Old Family Tree (Issue 25)

Kelly Barnhill: Tabula Rasa (Issue 18) | website

Laird Barron: Hour of the Cyclops (Issue 6) | website

M. Bennardo: The Night Nurse (Issue 31) | The Book in Dutch (Issue 22 | website

H. David Blalock: To Our Brothers (Issue 7)

R.S. Bohn: Judith of Lions (Issue 22) | website

Jennifer Hollie Bowles: Inside the Ganges (Issue 20)

Lisa M. Bradley: The Starfish (Issue 12) | website

Lida Broadhurst: Miyagu (Issue 17)

Adam Browne: A Retrospective (Issue 27) | The Biologie of Paradise (Issue 19) | website

Georgina Bruce: Witchwood (Issue 19)

Andi C. Buchanan: A Consensus Told in Chromatophores (Issue 32) | website

Kealan Patrick Burke: The End of Mr. Blame (Issue 12) | website

Nadia Bulkin: The Five Stages of Grief (Issue 17) | website

Octavia Cade: Imago (Issue 32) | website

Seth Cadin: No Signal (Issue 20)

Woody Carsky-Wilson: The Felon (Issue 13)

Nkone Chaka: Daring Again to Say Goodbye (Issue 42) | website

Dixon Chance: The Murmurous Paleoscope (Issue 23)

Vajra Chandrasekera: The Bombardier (Issue 32) | Terminus (Issue 29) | The Calf (Issue 24) | website

Saswati Chatterjee: Mango (Issue 33)

Emmie Christie: Shaken Loose (Issue 33)

Michael Christie: The Stinking Creep (Issue 2)

Miranda Ciccone: And Their Hearts As Engines (Issue 17)

Jai Clare: Mascots and Martyrs (Issue 14) | The Roof of God (Issue 5) | website

Erica Clashe: Not the Act (Issue 41) | website

Brendan Connell: Orach (Issue 9)

Gary W. Conner: Swim In Sediment (Issue 12) | These Stand for Me (Issue 1)

Brian J. Conrad: Angel of the Sand (Issue 8)

Laura Cooney: The Rubee (Issue 15)

Lawrence Conquest: Big in Japan (Issue 23) | website

John Craig: The Belly of the Night (Issue 1)

Ward Crockett: Doors of Seconds (Issue 18)

Matthew Chrulew: Burning in the Banshee's Absence (Issue 17) | website

Tim Curran: The Moon in Their Eyes (Issue 11) | Noctulos (Issue 6) | website

Koji A. Dae: It Comes Through Us (Issue 39) | website

Thomas Deja :Rats From Spain (Issue 11)

Michael J. DeLuca: Decay (Issue 28) | website

Kristi DeMeester: The Bee Queen (Issue 32) | Learning to Drown (Issue 29) | The Marking (Issue 27) | website

Corrine De Winter: Tuesdays After Midnight (Issue 2) | website

Lauren Dixon: Floating Feathers, Wings Red and Wild (Issue 29) | Sheela of the Good Shepherd (Issue 25) | website

Michael S. Dodd: The Madwoman (Issue 2)

Dorothea Duenow: Abilene (Issue 13)

R. K. Duncan: Six Spiral Iterations of a Memory (Issue 33)

Mae Empson: The Eel Question (Issue 22) | website

Jaq Evans: Scales (Issue 30) | website

Brian Evenson: Jenny Longlegs (Issue 34) | website

Corey Farrenkopf: The Tap Tap Tap of a Beak (Issue 35) | website

Isaac Fellows: Fighting Fate (Issue 17)

Gemma Files: One in the Morning and One at Night (Issue 23) | Pretend That We’re Dead (Issue 7) | website

AJ Fitzwater: Fault Lines (Issue 29) | website

April French: Oddities (Issue 13)

R. David Fulcher: The Bogeyman, Pt. II (Issue 2)

C.S. Fuqua: The Occasional Demon (Issue 7) | website

Cody Goodfellow: The Touring Car (Issue 30) | Feast of the Ixiptla (Issue 15) | website

Timothy Granville: Heartstone Lodge (Issue 43)

Amy Grech: Rampart (Issue 10) | website

Amelia Gorman: Out(r)age (Issue 39) | website

L.M. Guay: Exquisite Corpses (Issue 38) | website

Brenden Haukos: Isabelle (Issue 15)

Thomas Ha: Our Quiet Guests (Issue 37) | website

Markus Harmon: Papers from a Deserted House (Issue 3)

Jason Hauser: A Thorn in Nevelshelle’s Side (Issue 16) | website

Alex Hernandez: The Jicotea Princess (Issue 28)

Christopher Hivner: The Silence (Issue 4)

Tory Hoke: The Body in the Narrows (Issue 24) | website

Miles Hurt: The Burning One (Issue 21) | website

Marc Hutcheson: William’s Relic (Issue 8)

Ruth Joffre: A Girl Explodes (Issue 37) | website

J. L. Jones: The Sticky-Sweet Path (Issue 39)

Mel Kassel: Negligible Senescence (Issue 28) | website

Paula Keane: Dream Catchers (Issue 34)

Keffy R. M. Kehrli: She Dances on Knives (Issue 26) | website

Michael Kelly: Something Borrowed (Issue 36)

Chris Kelso: Jenny Longlegs (Issue 34) | website

Jaxton Kimble: None of Mine Bled Dry (Issue 34) | website

Gwendolyn Kiste: Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Issue 27) | website

Joe Koch: Oakmoss and Ambergris (Issue 35) | website

DeAnna Knippling: Bad House Spirit (Issue 26) | The Edge of the World (Issue 20) | website

Jordan Kurella: All Her Rows of Teeth (Issue 42) | website

Kelly Lagor: A Selection of Tissues (Issue 34) | website

Claude Lalumière: Prelude to Byzantium (Issue 26) | At the World Tree Hotel (Issue 26) | The Hecate Centuria (Issue 23) | website

Shelley Lavigne: Devoted/Devoured (Issue 43) | website

Ann LeBlanc: Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth (Issue 41) | website

Justin Lee: Totentanz (Issue 20)

D.F. Lewis: Murky’s Tales (Issue 5) | Dark House Lane (Issue 3) | website

Rich Logsdon: The Impaling of Jenny Curtis (Issue 5)

Edward C. Lynskey: Zombie (Issue 15)

A. Y. Lu: In Her Dreams, the River (Issue 40) | website

Darja Malcolm-Clarke: Of Cog and Feather (Issue 15)

Nick Mamatas: The Ferry House (Issue 42)

Avra Margariti: Over the Yiousouri Tree (Issue 41)

J.M. McDermott: Salt Gator Girl as Joe M. McDermott (Issue 33) |Fox in the Fields (Issue 26) | I Will Trade With You (Issue 23) | The End of Her World (Issue 19) | website

Katie McIvor: We Bleed Water (Issue 35)

Kathryn McMahon: Sunchoke (Issue 37)

John Medaille: Union Member #448 (Issue 18)

Gerardo Mercado Hernández: What Flowers Bring (Issue 37)

Kyle E. Miller: Ringing the Changes (Issue 30) | website

Stephen Minchin: All That’s Best (Issue 9)

Samuel Minier: Reflecting House (Issue 14) | website

Sunny Moraine: The Cold Death of Papa November (Issue 21) | website

Edward Morris: Jihad Over Innsmouth (Issue 16) | website

Michelle Muenzler: Hoarfrost (Issue 22) | website

Alexandra Munck: Beast Do (Issue 30)

Mary Musselman: Eye of the Beholder (Issue 10)

Shweta Narayan: Kohl-lined (Issue 20) | website

Mari Ness: Offgrid (Issue 26) | Dreams of Elephants and Ice (Issue 18) | website)

Christi Nogle: One Eye Opened in That Other Place (Issue 38) | Cocooning (Issue 31) | website

Nikki J. North: What a Wolf Wants (Issue 28) | website

Dirk van Nouhuys: The Swan (Issue 16) | website

Kevin Oatley: Demon Seed (Issue 14) | The Excelsior

Jonathan Olfert: Kick the Can (Issue 43) | website

Simon Owens: There Are Kittens Better Than These (Issue 14) | website

Dru Pagliassotti: Peter, Peter (Issue 13) | website

Shannon Peavey: Saturn is Devouring His Children (Issue 33) | website

Cameron Pierce: On Lonesome Tides (Issue 29)

Graeme Penman: Forever (Issue 16) | website

Cat Rambo: At the End of the Song, a Ghost is Waiting (Issue 31) | Eggs of Stone (Issue 25) | website

Steve Rasnic Tem: He Has Always Lived in This House Alone (Issue 42) | | The Winter Closet (Issue 36) | website

Claudius Reich: Snowdrift (Issue 6)

Jessica Reisman: The Demon of Russet Street (Issue 27) | A Feather’s Weight (Issue 19) | website

Zandra Renwick: Elephant Teeth (Issue 31) | website

Lauren Ring: Lest You Be Swept Away (Issue 38)

Andrew Penn Romine: No God West of Pearceville (Issue 24) | website

Xan van Rooyen: Sonata Apocalyptica (Issue 32) | website

Cheryl W. Ruggiero: Botch’s Astronomy (Issue 19)

Sara Saab: Little Seller of La Quarantaine (Issue 27)

Vicki Saunders: Carpe Chelonian (Issue 27) | Whale Woman Watches (Issue 24)

Steven Saus: Hard Lesson (Issue 21) | website

Brett A. Savory: A Room of Incense (Issue 2) | website

Holly Schofield: Kintsukuroi of the Lucky Few (Issue 34) | website

Vera Searles: The Same Song Every Midnight (Issue 16)

Steve Sidor: Snowcatters (Issue 9) | website

Beecher Smith: The Burrower From the Bluff (Issue 4) | website

Chloe Smith: Narrative of an Unnamed Supplicant (Issue 34)

Thomas Lee Joseph Smith: The Last Idea (Issue 11)

H. Turnip Smith: Toyland (Issue 1)

Darren Speegle: Porta Nigra (Issue 8)

Jennifer Stakes: The Birdstories of Jaywalker (Issue 20)

Simo Srinivas: A Dark Star Strikes the Stonemason (Issue 37)

Prashanth Srivatsa: A Girl at the End of the World (Issue 31)

Ferrett Steinmetz: The Bliss Machine (Issue 25) | Riding Atlas (Issue 22) | Dead Prophecies (Issue 19) | website

David Stevens: The Gods of the Gaps (Issue 29) | Some Corner of a Dorset Field that is Forever Arabia (Issue 25) | website

Ashley Stokes: The Scarisbrick Intuition (Issue 40)

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam: Where You Come From (Issue 26) | website

Bret Tallman: The Far Bank (Issue 21) | The Tab (Issue 17)

Lester Thees: The Kartoupelos (Issue 3)

Leah Thomas: The Drove (Issue 25)

Richard Thomas: Kuebiko (Issue 41) | website

Steve Toase: Iridescent Screams (Issue 40) | The Heart Beats Green and Grey (Issue 38) | Flowstone (Issue 36) | The Silent Brush of Wings (Issue 30) | website

E. Catherine Tobler: R is for Running (Issue 43) |Becomes the Color (Issue 35) | True in His Fashion (Issue 31) | In the Otherwise Dark (Issue 28) | Ladybird (Issue 22) | website

Nick Tramdack: The Smile (Issue 21) | website

Chuck Von Nordheim: Apotheosis of Deacon J (Issue 18)

Tim Waggoner: Simulacrum (Issue 4) | website

Wendy N. Wagner: The Last Doll War (Issue 21) | website

K.S. Walker: Trials and Invocations in the Basin of the Three Sisters (Issue 36)

Kali Wallace: The Virtue Retreats from the Land of Snow and Sky (Issue 30)

D. Elizabeth Wasden: Convergence (Issue 18)

Clay Waters: Ten-foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Issue 15) | website

Aliya Whiteley: Glum Dreams (Issue 24) | website

A.C. Wise: Her Last Breath Before Waking (Issue 24) | website

David J. Wright: Contract Work (Issue 12)

Lee Clark Zumpe: Saurian Bridge (Issue 10) | website

Lucy Zhang: Grafting (Issue 33) | website

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