"How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison, an intensely Harlan Ellison story about a man who created a tiny man and then was persecuted about it for no reason, misanthropic and nevertheless compelling.

"Mister Oak" by Leah Bobet, about an oak tree in love with a human girl.

"The Demon of Hochgarten" by Euan Harvey, an extremely prosaic witch-hunter story. Vaguely misogynistic.

"Mélanie" by Aliette de Bodard, about young people preparing for university exams in a Paris where math is the only kind of magic that matters, but not the only kind that exists.

"The Unknown God" by Ann Leckie, a delightful incarnated-god story I read first in a reprint in Uncanny.

And the usual collection of reviews and essays - a piece on the film of The Lovely Bones, a lengthy (and very dry) essay on the Jack of folktales, a piece on Charles Vess, and some video game and adjacent book reviews. ( )