"All the Pretty Starships Fly Like This" by JR Dewitt: freedom from imperial control / mindships / hot fudge cherry berry

"As Big As A Whale" by Avra Margariti: obsession / cosmic space whales / non-linear narratives

"Equilibrium" by Ryan Goderez: the new you / the impact of impossible momentum / ready for normalcy

"Guiding Star of Mall Patroller 4u-012" by Eric Schwitzgebel: robot liberation / achieving consciousness? / staring at the star

"Lucinda Espinosa's Twenty-Seventh Death" by MR Robinson: love in the multiverse / the chaser and the chased / a trip to the canyon

"The Earthlight Bright Before Her" by Albert Chu: thoughts of home / the generational divide / abandoned on the moon

"This Great Rumble" by Kate Lechler: unfriending / the secret tunnel cat(?) colony / searching for community

"To Impersonate A Celestial Body" by Yasmeen Amro: a planet's vessel / signing away one's body / becoming Kepler-186f