Foreword / David Naimon --
Introduction / Susan DeFreitas --
I. Magelight. A lay of light and anger / Stewart C. Baker --
The night bazaar for women becoming reptiles / Rachael K. Jones --
The wake / James Mapes --
Black as thread / Jessie Kwak --
A woven womb / C.A. McDonald --
Prothalamion / Tracy Manaster --
The kingdom of the belly / Michelle Ruiz Keil --
Ib & Nib and the ice berries / Stevan Allred --
II. Returning to the root. Old souls / Fonda Lee --
The ones who don't walk away / Rene Denfeld --
The polar explorer / Leni Zumas --
Birds / Benjamin Parzybok --
Homeless Gary Busey / Timothy O'Leary --
Finding Joan / David D. Levine --
Becoming human / Gigi Little --
Bee, keeper / Jason LaPier --
KwaZulu-Natal / Juhea Kim --
Mr. Uncle's favor / Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher --
Ib & Nib and the golden ring / Stevan Allred --
III. On time and darkness. Neuron / Lidia Yuknavitch --
Laddie come home / Curtis C. Chen --
The way things were / Jonah Barrett --
Hard choices / Tina Connolly --
When strangers meet / Sonia Orin Lyris --
JoyBe's last dance / Jason Arias --
Let it die / Arwen Spicer --
Each cool silver orb a gift / Nicole Rosevear --
Wenonah's gift / Molly Gloss --
Ib & Nib and the hemmens trees / Stevan Allred.
