• Letter from the Fiction Editor     Katie Liesener
• To My Child     Kristina England
• Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat     Sarah J. Sloat
• Book Gods     Jacqueline Garlitos
• Chasing Tails     Jared Ward
• In Memoriam August Wilson (1945–2005)     Michael Karl (Ritchie)
• Ghosts of Women, Ghosts of Birds †     Linda L. Dove
• Dames of Dumaine     Kristin Fouquet
• Climbing     Courtney K. Bambrick
• The Mage     Susan Slaviero
• All the Snow Is Off the Branches Now     Cathryn Cofell
• The Wolf the Morning After     Lana Hechtman Ayers
• Hard Frost     Laura Grace Weldon
• My Mother’s Voice     Claudia Reder
• the 4 things I’d do     Peter Schwartz
• Skin of Electric Fish     Chad Gusler
• Marital Understudy     Suzanne Richardson Harvey
• Anniversary     Kristin Kozlowski

A dagger (†) indicates that the piece was featured on the cover.