'Night of the Firstlings' accepted

Look! I managed to sneak into Eclipse Two, with all these other splendid folk!

• The Hero, Karl Schroeder
  
• Turing’s Apples, Stephen Baxter
  
• Invisible Empire of Ascending Light, Ken Scholes
  
• Michael Laurits is: Drowning, Paul Cornell
  
• Night of the Firstlings, Margo Lanagan
  
• Elevator, Nancy Kress
  
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm, Daryl Gregory
  
• Exhalation, Ted Chiang
  
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, David Moles
  
• The Rabbi’s Hobby, Peter S. Beagle
  
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General, Jeffrey Ford
  
• Skin Deep, Richard Parks
  
• Ex Cathedra, Tony Daniel
  
• Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose, Terry Dowling
  
• Fury, Alastair Reynolds
  

With this story from Fabulous February. (You remember Fab Feb, don't you? It came right after Jubilant January. They both contained spells of writing a story a day. Quelle luxe!)