In this short story inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", a teenage girls walks the streets of Cambridge and magically assassinates members of the 1% at an elite party.

In Cross River, there's only one place to get a hair cut and that's at Delilah's--the first shop to be run by lady barber Tiny who is rumored to be using magic on her clients.

Present day New York City has grown and aged to the extent that it must be “birthed” with the help of an avatar, as all great cities of the past have been. A Black man leads the city through this transformation, fighting against an ancient enemy who would otherwise have it vanquished.