| 10|10.1 |
Intangible viscera
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Yuliia Vereta
|
Poem
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| 10|10.2 |
Lianus Astros
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Harris Coverley
|
Poem
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| 10|10.3 |
It Wasn't as If...
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Anna Cates
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Poem
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| 11|11.1 |
"Light glances off the..."
|
Mahaila Smith
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Poem
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| 11|11.2 |
A line of prayers
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Richard Magahiz
|
Poem
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| 11|11.3 |
Lunar Beast
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LindaAnn LoSchiavo
|
Poem
|
| 12|12.1 |
"a man of mere bones..."
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Brian Rosenberger
|
Poem
|
| 12|12.2 |
Manhattan 2081: The Physiognomy of Fear
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Alicia Hilton
|
Poem
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| 12|12.3 |
The Mechanical Bride
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Carolyn Clink
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Poem
|
| 12|12.4 |
"Medusa's mansion raided"
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Randall Andrews
|
Poem
|
| 13|13.1 |
"migrating dragons"
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
Poem
|
| 13|13.2 |
"mind readers marry..."
|
Randall Andrews
|
Poem
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| 13|13.3 |
"monthly expenses"
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Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
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Poem
|
| 13|13.4 |
"moonlight fishing"
|
Brian Rosenberger
|
Poem
|
| 13|13.5 |
Multiversal
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Michael H. Payne
|
Poem
|
| 14|14.1 |
Musings of an Artificial Intelligence
|
Jenny Thompson
|
Poem
|
| 14|14.2 |
"my first spacewalk"
|
Lauren McBride
|
Poem
|
| 14|14.3 |
"Neptune"
|
Christina Sng
|
Poem
|
| 14|14.4 |
Night Song
|
Johanna Haas
|
Poem
|
| 15|15.1 |
"nudist colony..."
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 15|15.2 |
"old junkyard"
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 15|15.3 |
On the Way Here
|
Corinne Hughes
|
Poem
|
| 15|15.4 |
"one for the road"
|
John Hawkhead
|
Poem
|
| 16|16.1 |
Origins
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Anna Cates
|
Poem
|
| 16|16.2 |
"a parallel universe..."
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 16|16.3 |
"the path away"
|
Anna Cates
|
Poem
|
| 16|16.4 |
Perish and Live Forever
|
Pedro Iniguez
|
Poem
|
| 17|17.1 |
Pity They're Now So Rare
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
Poem
|
| 17|17.2 |
"Pluto crosses Neptune."
|
Brian U. Garrison
|
Poem
|
| 17|17.3 |
"practicing safe sex"
|
Randall Andrews
|
Poem
|
| 17|17.4 |
The Primal Cry
|
Yuliia Vereta
|
Poem
|
| 18|18.1 |
"rebuilding the reef"
|
Harris Coverley
|
Poem
|
| 18|18.2 |
recyling
|
Crystal Sidell
|
Poem
|
| 18|18.3 |
"red Sol"
|
Joshua St. Claire
|
Poem
|
| 18|18.4 |
Red Tide
|
Shane D. Keene
|
Poem
|
| 18|18.5 |
"refugee moon"
|
Susan Burch
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.1 |
"refugees everywhere ..."
|
Lesley Anne Swanson
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.2 |
"rolling fog"
|
Kimberly Kuchar
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.3 |
"scrapyard..."
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.4 |
"seedtime"
|
Joshua St. Claire
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.5 |
"selling horrible alien bugs"
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
Poem
|
| 19|19.6 |
"shapeshifter Halloween party"
|
Lauren McBride
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.1 |
"Andromedan spring"
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.2 |
"another Adam..."
|
Tracy Davidson
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.3 |
Astrosommelier
|
R. Mac Jones
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.4 |
"autopsy report"
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.5 |
"big bang the expanse of our silence"
|
Eavonka Ettinger
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.6 |
binary system
|
Marisca Pichette
|
Poem
|
| 1|1.7 |
"blind date"
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 20|20.1 |
Sibling Rivalry
|
Jenny Thompson
|
Poem
|
| 20|20.2 |
"singing a song..."
|
Kimberly Kuchar
|
Poem
|
| 20|20.3 |
Small Reveals
|
Colleen Anderson
|
Poem
|
| 21|21.1 |
The smog bowl
|
Yuliia Vereta
|
Poem
|
| 21|21.2 |
"sole survivor"
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
Poem
|
| 21|21.3 |
Space being
|
Pravat Kumar Padhy
|
Poem
|
| 22|22.1 |
Spectral Rune
|
Max Bindi
|
Poem
|
| 22|22.2 |
"Spotting aliens in a crowd"
|
Yuliia Vereta
|
Poem
|
| 22|22.3 |
"spring morning"
|
Pravat Kumar Padhy
|
Poem
|
| 22|22.4 |
"sun through a prism—"
|
Julie Schwerin
|
Poem
|
| 22|22.5 |
"a sunbeam slowly hardens into thought"
|
Vijay Prasad
|
Poem
|
| 23|23.1 |
"swimming free"
|
Harris Coverley
|
Poem
|
| 23|23.2 |
"tardigrade"
|
Jerome Berglund
|
Poem
|
| 23|23.3 |
Terricolousia
|
Harris Coverley
|
Poem
|
| 23|23.4 |
"threefold symmetry"
|
Mark Gilbert
|
Poem
|
| 23|23.5 |
To Hail a Late-Night Taxi
|
Lorraine Schein
|
Poem
|
| 24|24.1 |
To Love Too Much
|
Deborah L. Davitt
|
Poem
|
| 24|24.2 |
"train station"
|
Gordana Vlašić
|
Poem
|
| 24|24.3 |
The Universe singing
|
Yuliia Vereta
|
Poem
|
| 25|25.1 |
untitled
|
Terrie Leigh Relf
|
Poem
|
| 25|25.2 |
"vampire rest home"
|
Greer Woodward
|
Poem
|
| 25|25.3 |
"VR sim—"
|
Lisa Timpf
|
Poem
|
| 26|26.1 |
"warp drive folds spacetime"
|
Jean-Paul L. Garnier
|
Poem
|
| 26|26.2 |
We Will Become Mars
|
A. J. Dalton
|
Poem
|
| 26|26.3 |
What Evil Lurks
|
Adele Gardner
|
Poem
|
| 27|27.1 |
What Villains Read
|
Mary Soon Lee
|
Poem
|
| 27|27.2 |
"When riding"
|
Sarah Mahina Calvello
|
Poem
|
| 27|27.3 |
When the Devil Enters Through the Door
|
Faruk Buzhala
|
Poem
|
| 28|28.1 |
Whirlpool
|
Colleen Anderson
|
Poem
|
| 28|28.2 |
"The world's first time traveler"
|
Randall Andrews
|
Poem
|
| 28|28.3 |
Who
|
Anna Cates
|
Poem
|
| 28|28.4 |
"your planet's not gone—"
|
Richard Magahiz
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.1 |
"body swap"
|
Tracy Davidson
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.2 |
The Boy Who Knew No Fear
|
H. V. Patterson
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.3 |
"burial pod"
|
DL Mattila
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.4 |
"by jack-o-lantern light"
|
Brian Rosenberger
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.5 |
"Cerberus in Wonderland"
|
Randall Andrews
|
Poem
|
| 2|2.6 |
"cicadas were their bridesmaids starlings their ushers"
|
Richard Magahiz
|
Poem
|
| 3|3.1 |
"cold dreams"
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
Poem
|
| 3|3.2 |
"a conscious mind ̶̶ "
|
Harris Coverley
|
Poem
|
| 3|3.3 |
"crescent moon"
|
Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
|
Poem
|
| 3|3.4 |
death is a less terrible thing
|
Marisca Pichette
|
Poem
|
| 3|3.5 |
"Defenestration"
|
Jason P. Burnham
|
Poem
|
| 4|4.1 |
Depth
|
F. J. Bergmann
|
Poem
|
| 4|4.2 |
"devil's hour—"
|
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
|
Poem
|
| 4|4.3 |
Draco Urbis
|
Marie Brennan
|
Poem
|
| 4|4.4 |
The Dying Girl
|
Jamal Hodge
|
Poem
|
| 5|5.1 |
"Earth day"
|
Ann K. Schwader
|
Poem
|
| 5|5.2 |
"endless"
|
Joshua St. Claire
|
Poem
|
| 5|5.3 |
"the egg moon"
|
Tejendra Sherchan
|
Poem
|
| 5|5.4 |
Erasure
|
Anna Cates
|
Poem
|
| 6|6.1 |
The Eye
|
Kayla-Jane Barrie
|
Poem
|
| 6|6.2 |
"a fawn steps"
|
Debbie Strange
|
Poem
|
| 6|6.3 |
Fearsome predators
|
Richard Magahiz
|
Poem
|
| 6|6.4 |
"flying back to earth"
|
Greer Woodward
|
Poem
|
| 7|7.1 |
The Future Is Here
|
Eugen Bacon
|
Poem
|
| 7|7.2 |
"generation ship"
|
Colleen Anderson
|
Poem
|
| 7|7.3 |
Graver Gravities
|
Brian U. Garrison
|
Poem
|
| 8|8.1 |
Golden Shovel: Lon Chaney, Jr. As "The Wolf Man"
|
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
|
Poem
|
| 8|8.2 |
"Halloween terror"
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
Poem
|
| 8|8.3 |
"halloween time warp still green"
|
Helen Buckingham
|
Poem
|
| 8|8.4 |
The Hive Relocating to Planet Earth
|
Crystal Sidell
|
Poem
|
| 9|9.1 |
Hush
|
Angela Acosta
|
Poem
|
| 9|9.2 |
"in flying cars"
|
Jill Trade
|
Poem
|
| 9|9.3 |
In Hungry Times
|
H. V. Patterson
|
Poem
|
| 9|9.4 |
"in the cold night park"
|
Akua Lezli Hope
|
Poem
|
| iii |
Editor's Note (Dwarf Stars 2025)
|
Miguel O. Mitchell
|
Essay
|
