Introduction / Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, and Rajat Chaudhuri -- Listen: a memoir / Priya Sarukkai Chabria -- By the light of the stars / N. R. M. Roshak -- Old man's sea / Meyari McFarland -- Deer, tiger, and witch / Kate V. Bui -- Vladivostok / Avital Balwit -- Exuberant vitality of hatchling habitats / D.A. Xiaolin Spires -- Untamed / Timothy Yam -- It is the year / Joyce Chng -- A rabbit egg for Flora / Caroline M. Yachim -- Iron fox in the Marble City / Vlad-Andrei Cucu -- Mariposa awakening / Joseph F. Nacino -- A life with Cibi / Natsumi Tanaka -- Children of asphalt / Phoebe Wagner -- Down the river / Eliza Victoria -- Becoming Martians / Taiyo Fujii -- Abso / Sarah E. Stevens -- In two minds / Joel R. Hunt -- Arfabad / Rimi B. Chatterjee -- Mammoth steps / Andrew Dana Hudson -- Wandjina / Amin Chehelnabi -- Streams are paved with fish traps / Octavia Cade -- Crew / E. - H. Nießler -- Songs that humanity lost reluctantly to dolphins / Shweta Taneja -- Birdsong fossil / D.K. Mok