"When We Loved Giants" by Sara S. Messenger + "Terms of Enlightenment" by Patrick Hurley

"An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty + "Lotus Dew for the Emperor's Tea" by Vanessa Fogg

"The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak + "Espie Droger Dreams of War" by Matthew Kressel

"Eat, Prey, Love..." by Jilly Dreadful + "The Devourers Of War..." by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"Warren's Tentacle" by Susan Palwick + "A Handbook To Spirit-hunting" by Modupeoluwa Shelle

"The Salt and the Cure" by Rukman Ragas + "Sensor Ghosts" by Deborah L. Davitt

"The Worldbuilder" by Phoenix Alexander + "Dream Destinations (From the Lost Traveler's Tour Guide)" by Alexander Weinstein

"Six Sides of a Fairy Tale" by Audrey Zhou + "Death Echoes Overlapping" by Megan Chee

"A Brief Public Announcement" by Eli Brown + "The Moving Finger" by Adam-Troy Castro

"Academic Neutrality" by M.R. Robinson + "Hunter, Hunter" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"Bots All The Way Down" by Effie Seiberg + "Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell" by Marisca Pichette

"Choose Your Own Damnation" by Kehkashan Khalid + "Mother's Hip" by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff

"The Space Between Us" by P.A. Cornell + "Memories of the MindMine" by David Marino

"HagioClass" by José Pablo Iriarte + "The Hub Living Among the Stars" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees

"Us, in Another Universe" by A.C. Wise + "Crickets in Lost Light" by Jonathan Olfert

"You Always Told Her You'd Give Her the World" by Aimee Ogden + "Reality Check" by Nancy Kress

"The Cold Burning Light of Her" by Sam W. Pisciotta + "Operation: Grapevine" by Joel W.D. Buxton

"Visible Damage" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman + "How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl" by Tina S. Zhu

"Beneath the Umdlebe Tree (Or: A Vegetable Love Story)" by Modupeoluwa Shelle + "Elegy for Zephyr One" by Gene Doucette

"Primordium" by Erica Ruppert + "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" by James L. Sutter