David Brin - Piecework

In an overpopulated near future people earn money by using their bodies to make valuable items. Io wants to get into upmarket goods but her best friend Perseph is content to do the easiest jobs and get by on drugs and soaps...

Kim Newman - Gargantua Bots vs the Nice Mice

A reporter investigating why two very different lines of toys have taken over the market makes an awful discovery...

Jonathan Carroll - The panic hand

A regular train traveller meets two very odd women...

Sharon M. Hall - The last game

In a strange 'garden' with only two characters, stories from myth and religion intertwine and are played out.

Ian Watson - The eye of the Ayatollah

A believer who lost an eye fighting Iraq gets the titular orb at the funeral when the body is pulled apart by the grief
stricken crowd. It helps him track a certain unbeliever to Scotland...

Stuart Falconer - Familiars

Jack is in a wheelchair but has a swarm of 'familiars' to call on when he helps fight crime. The police are baffled by a murder of a rich girl and call him in... ( )