Foreword / Jenny Minton Quigley -- Introduction / Valeria Luiselli -- Screen time / Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (The New York times magazine) -- The wolves of Circassia / Daniel Mason (Zoetrope) -- Mercedes's special talent / Tere Davila ; translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed (The Offing) -- Rainbows / Joseph O'Neill (The New Yorker) -- A way with Bea / Shanteka Sigers (The Paris review -- Seams / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft (Freeman's) -- The little widow from the capital / Yohanca Delgado (The Paris review) -- Lemonade / Eshkol Nevo ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston (Guernica) -- Breastmilk / 'Pemi Aguda (One story) -- The old man of Kusumpur / Amir Mitra ; translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta (The Common) -- Where they always meet / Christos Ikonomou ; translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich (The Yale review) -- Fish stories / Janika Oza (Kenyon review) -- Horse soup / Vladimir Sorokin ; translated from the Russian by Max Lawton (N+1) -- Clean teen / Francisco Gonzalez (Gulf Coast) -- Dengue boy / Michel Nieva ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Granta) -- Zikora / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Amazon original stories) -- Apples / Gunnhild Oyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (Freeman's) -- Warp and weft / David Ryan (Harvard review) -- Face time / Lorrie Moore (The New Yorker) -- An unlucky man / Samantha Schweblin ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (McSweeney's quarterly concern).