"The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★ "The Ten-Percent Thief" by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★ "At Desk 9501" by Frances Ogamba ★★★ "Bring Your Own Spoon" (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★ "Blue Grey Blue" by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½ "Your Multicolored Life" by Xing He ★★ "The Substance of Ideas" by Clelia Farris ★★½ "Between the Firmaments" by Neon Yang ★★ "The Farctory" by K.A. Teryna ★★½