This was a great issue. (Full disclosure, I'm a first reader for CG. We were flooded with submissions for this issue and all of them were so good.)

"Under the Bed" by Effie Seiberg was a little cute and a little eerie and it might just make you cry. The monsters under the bed love us and they don't understand if we leave.

"Harvestfruit" by JY Yang started off like your typical machines-take-over-the-world story, but then it knocked me down with an astounding disclosure. The robots are honored to have the humans around and they never waste anything. (That sounds gross, like 'soylent green is people' gross. That is not what I mean.)

"The Ancestors" by Laurie Tom is your basic Chinese family honoring their ancestors story with a twist that cracked me right up. It's good to honor your ancestors, be they blood or ancestors in the genre.

"What Came Last" by Lindsay Sheehan is sweet little dinner conversation between a little girl and her mother about the shades of extinction and what's required to be a species. ( )