Table of Contents: TFF-X: TEN YEARS OF THE FUTURE FIRE edited by Djibril al-Ayad, Cécile Matthey & Valeria Vitale

The Future Fire Magazine is celebrating 10 years of publication with an anthology that collects the best of the previous decade. Here’s the table of contents for the anthology TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire: A speculative fiction anthology :

X for ten years, X for marking out a spot in the genre, X for the unknown variable that changes the status quo.

This anthology is a mix of reprints from the first decade of The Future Fire magazine, and new, experimental, unusual or aspirational pieces that push boundaries or play games that might tickle Borges, Calvino and Kafka. With both old and new stories, the editors hope to give a taste of what they’d like to see more of in the next decade, and in the process supply voracious readers with 29 short stories and other pieces of writing full of progressive ideas, underrepresented voices, socially important tales, and of course entertaining, quality fiction! This paper book gives the stories, half of them previously published but in digital form only, another time and space to be enjoyed in.

Here’s the table of contents…

1. “Nasmina’s Black Box” by Jennifer Marie Brissett
2. “The Taste of Their Dreams” by Margo-Lea Hurwicz
3. “Shadow Boy and the Little Match Girl” by C.A. Hawksmoor
4. “Flight of a Sparrow” by Jocelyn Koehler
5. “What Hath God Wrought?” by Neil Carstairs
6. “Fae Visions of the Mediterranean” by Valeria Vitale
7. “Reflection” by Jessica E. Birch
8. “The Need To Stay the Same” by Jo Walton
9. “Bottom Drawer” by Brett Savory
10. “Liquid Loyalty, ten years on (poem)” by Redfern Jon Barrett
11. “Always Look on the Bright Side” by Alison Littlewood
12. “Mermaid Teeth, Witch-Honed” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
13. “Sweet Like Fate” by Sara Puls
14. “An Unrecognized Masterwork” by Bruce Boston
15. “Je me souviens” by Su J. Sokol
16. “Lessons of the Sun (poem)” by Joyce Chng
17. “Sophie and Zoe at the End of the World” by Rebecca Buchanan
18. “Accessing the Future” by Kathryn Allan
19. “Art Attack!” by Mark Harding
20. “Slice of Life” by Julie Novakova
21. “Half Light House” by James Bennett
22. “Lifting the Veil on the Illustrators” by compiled by Cécile Matthey, Serge Keller
23. “Drown or Die” by Therese Arkenberg
24. “Easy Sweeps of Sky” by Melissa Moorer
25. “Always Left Behind” by Jack Hollis Marr
26. “Outlaw Bodies (seven prologues and an epilogue)” by Lori Selke
27. “Thick on the Wet Cement” by Rebecca J. Schwab
28. “Innervation (poem)” by Toby MacNutt
29. “Ephemeral Love” by Melanie Rees