There's Keith Stevenson's slowly smouldering novelette of sex and aberrant reflections, "A Mirror, Darkly". There's three-awards-already-this-year Thoraiya Dyer's paean to an erstwhile marsupial predator, "The Bird, The Bees, and Thylacine". There are contrasting reports from a fantastic Japan, from Robin Shortt and Rachel Manija Brown; tongue-in-cheek tales from Chris Large, Chris Miles, Carolyn Nicita, and Calie Voorhis; solid SF from Ellen C. Glass, Stephen Case, Katherine Woodbury, and Rachel Zakuta; E. Catherine Tobler's story from the night of the poisonous comet; and Sandra M. Odell's miraculous staircase. Plus poetry by Darrell Schweitzer and Lee Clark Zumpe, and the magical artwork of Kathleen Jennings.
Oh, and--did I mention?--it's out now.

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I'm really pleased with how this issue has turned out. Thanks for contributing such a great story!