Tais Teng offers this issue's opening notes with The Pianist Who Serenaded the Mermaids with Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor. The wonders continue with short fiction from Dan MacIsaac, Zandra Renwick, Kelsey Hutton, Sarina Bosco, David Perlmutter, Melissa Nelson, Leslie Wibberley, and Robin Malcolm. There's poetry from the Magpie winners and a graphic short finale from Matthew Nielsen. JM Landels brings us Toinette's latest adventures, and Mel Anastasiou introduces us to an all-new mystery, Pretty Lies.