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Despite her amazing abilities, all Sun Song Shia ever wanted was to be loved. But it's hard to find love when you don't even know who you really are. Little Bird is an expansion of In Her Eyes, originally published in F&SF, a nominee for the Sturgeon award, an honoree for the James Tiptree award, and included in the 2015 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas (edited by Paula Guran).

After dropping my brain off at the shop for a tune-up, I got a loaner brain. Who would've suspected the fiasco that followed?

Strange and powerful forces lurk in the Blood Swamp. Some with enough allure as to call a man back from the dead, over and over.

For some people, Hell is always just down the street and around the corner.

Jim Rustenholtz was just one of the guys. Well, except for one small difference.

In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. Physicists learn that it's possible to pillage and plunder the past without affecting the present, or so it seems. It seems as though there are no consequences to time travel. But one prisoner sees the fallacy of this, because nobody understands consequences like a con.

The Althusians traveled vast distances to reach Earth. Unfortunately, hyperspace travel stripped away their memories, so they arrived deranged and confused. After a period of intense study and rehabilitation, these aliens were freed to live among humans. All seemed well, until they developed a peculiar talent for time travel.

From the moment she hatched, First was curious, determined, and fierce. A baby allosaurus is nothing but a tasty morsel for numerous predators, and yet something deep within her knew that she had come into this world world to rule. This is the life story of a singularly dynamic predator of the late Jurassic period. Using her mix of cunning and patience, First makes her way in a harsh and unforgiving land, even finding the occasional moment of joy along the way.

In this tale, the afterlife realms have come to Earth. Casey loved her grandfather, but shortly before he died, she learned about his sordid past. Therefore, it came as no surprise when he ended up in Detroit. It takes courage, not to mention lots of paperwork (because Hell teems with bureaucracy), but she visits her beloved grandfather. She not only learns more about him, but about herself as well.

When Lynn feels like a cat, she becomes a cat. It really is the best way to forget about her ugly past. Just curl up in a patch of sunlight and sleep. But when the sun sets, she must cat about. It's a restless night and the monsters have come out to play. Monsters Lynn cannot ignore. What must she become to defeat them? And does she have what it takes?

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks upon the body's "most unfortunate" choice of attire.