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‘He gestured for me to sit, opened his little refrigerator, got out two Diet Cokes. “You like these right?”’ Fiction by Amie Barrodale. ‘The key was to make everyone as indebted to you as possible.’ Fiction by Hansen Shi. ‘The man did not remember the first four or five days in the hospital very well. He mentioned it, the localized amnesia, to one of the nurses, who said it was normal.’ Fiction by John Jeremiah Sullivan. ‘August 7, 2066: an ordinary Saturday.’ Fiction by Rebecca Curtis. ‘A recent Facebook IQ test had revealed Lee to be a man at the far right of the bell curve, not just gifted but searingly brilliant.’ A short story by Halle Hill. ‘It was disgusting, this whole so-called relationship.’ A short story by Ellika Lagerlöf, translated by Saskia Vogel. ‘We stood, at least in my mind, eye to eye.’ A short story by Fríða Ísberg, translated from the Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer. ‘She wanted him to stand up. Raise his voice. Come fight her at the height of her anger. Why did