- Salvaged— Adriana Kantcheva (Escape Pod).
- The Mountains My Bones, The Rivers My Blood — Y. M. Pang (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- Coding Van Gogh — Elaine Gao (Clarkesworld)
- Sweetbaby — Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
- Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead— KT Bryski (Strange Horizons)
- Queen of the Wilis — Kelsey Hutton (Fantasy Magazine)
