Unique chicken goes in reverse / Andy Duncan -- Bad luck, trouble, death, and vampire sex / Garth Nix -- Last and only or, Mr. Moscowitz becomes French / Peter S. Beagle -- Lost boy: a reporter at large / Maureen F. McHugh -- Drowned life / Jeffrey Ford -- Toother / Terry Dowling -- Up the fire road / Eileen Gunn -- In the forest of the queen / Gwyneth Jones -- Quartermaster returns / Ysabeau S. Wilce -- Electric rains / Kathleen Ann Goonan -- She-creatures / Margo Lanagan -- Transformation of Targ / Paul Brandon and Jack Dann -- Mrs. Zeno's paradox / Ellen Klages -- Lustration / Bruce Sterling -- Larissa Miusov / Lucius Shepard.