In this issue: A chilly cover from Britt-Lise Newstead envelopes JJ Lee's Christmas ghost story, 'Desdemone', while Misha Handman keeps us warm through the dark night. AJ Odasso constructs a Frankenstein tale for the new world; Spencer Stevens returns in the Seven Swans Mysteries, and Allaigna's Song continues; plus fiction from Anat Rabkin, Soramimi Hanarajimi, and Susan Pieters, along with the winners of the 2017 Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction