THE BOOK OF APEX Table of Contents

• “The Bread We Eat in Dreams,” Catherynne M. Valente
• “The Leavings of the Wolf,” Elizabeth Bear
• “The 24 Hour Brother,” Christopher Barzak
• “Faithful City,” Michael Pevzner
• “So Glad We Had This Time Together,” Cat Rambo
• “Sweetheart Showdown,” Sarah Dalton
• “Bear in Contradicting Landscape,” David J. Schwartz
• “My Body, Her Canvas,” A.C. Wise
• “A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell,” Richard Bowes
• “Copper, Iron, Blood and Love,” Mari Ness
• “The Second Card of the Major Arcana,” Thoraiya Dyer
• “Love Is a Parasite Meme,” Lavie Tidhar
• “Decomposition,” Rachel Swirsky
• “Tomorrow’s Dictator,” Rahul Kanakia
• “Winter Scheming,” Brit Mandelo
• “In the Dark,” Ian Nichols
• “The Silk Merchant,” Ken Liu
• “Ironheart,” Alec Austin
• “Coyote Gets His Own Back,” Sarah Monette
• “Waiting for Beauty,” Marie Brennan
• “Murdered Sleep,” Kat Howard
• “Armless Maidens of the American West,” Genevieve Valentine
• “Sexagesimal,” Katharine E.K. Duckett
• “During the Pause,” Adam Troy-Castro
• “Weaving Dream,” Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Always the Same, Till It Is Not,” Cecil Castellucci
• “Sprig,” Alex Bledsoe
• “Splinter,” Shira Lipkin
• “Erzulie Dantor,” Tim Susman
• “Labyrinth,” Mari Ness
• “Blood from Stone,” Alethea Kontis
• “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread,” Eugie Foster
• “The Performance Artist,” Lettie Prell