“A Short Accounting of Our Best Lives” by AP Golub: history / yearning to be a dinosaur / stranger than ever

“Assembly Line” by Lia Lao: AI workers / otherness / never being enough

“Before You Fade Away” by Andrew Najberg: disappearing children / grief / fatherhood

“From Chicxulub With Love” by AC Koch: nuclear destruction / facing death / one final task

“If These Whales Could Talk” by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles: prepping for life on the ocean / grief / punny AIs

“Phenology” by Michael J. DeLuca: fracturing groups / cults? / returning to the land

“The Rumen” by Jenn Grunigen: living in isolation / breakups / immortal dogs

“To Fall in Love With a Dying Sun” by AW Prihandita: eclipses / celestials in the mortal world / the approaching end