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• 1 • Introduiction (A Phoenix First Must Burn) • (2020) • essay by Patrice Caldwell
• 4 • When Life Hands You a Lemon Fruitbomb • (2020) • short story by Amerie Mi Marie Nicholson
• 30 • Gilded • (2020) • short story by Elizabeth Acevedo
• 51 • When Abigail Fields Recalls Her First Death and, subsequently, Her Best Life • (2020) • short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 67 • The Rules of the Land • (2020) • short story by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• 85 • A Hagiography of Starlight • (2020) • short story by Somayia Daud
• 105 • Melie • (2020) • novelette by Justina Ireland
• 132 • The Goddess Provides • (2020) • short story by L. L. McKinney
• 155 • Hearts Turned to Ash • (2020) • short story by Dhonielle Clayton
• 180 • Letting the Right One In • (2020) • short story by Patrice Caldwell
• 202 • Tender-Headed • (2020) • short story by Danny Lore
• 220 • Kiss the Sun • (2020) • short story by Ibi Zoboi
• 245 • The Actress • (2020) • short story by Danielle Paige
• 269 • The Curse of Love • (2020) • short story by Ashley Woodfolk
• 282 • All the Time in the World • (2020) • short story by Charlotte Nicole Davis
• 298 • The Witch's Skin • (2020) • short story by Karen Strong
• 318 • Sequence • (2020) • short story by J. Marcelle Corrie