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• 12 • Editor's Note: Why Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories in an Anthology Named ParaSpheres? • essay by Ken Keegan
• 17 • Introduction: A Memoir in the Form of a Manifesto • essay by Rikki Ducornet
• 23 • Side Effects • short story by Janice Law
• 35 • Ever and Anon • short story by Kate Kasten
• 43 • The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe • (1982) • short story by Angela Carter
• 55 • Lithia Park • short story by William Luvaas
• 62 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 95 • Third Initiation: A Gift from the Land of Dreams • short fiction by Mary Mackey
• 107 • The Concert Pianist's Flight • short story by Carole Rosenthal
• 113 • The Town News • novelette by Justin Courter
• 144 • The Midnight Lover • short story by Carol Schwalberg
• 152 • The Son of Chimera • short story by Leena Krohn
• 159 • Night Reconnaissance • short story by Tom La Farge
• 167 • Short-Term Memorial Park • short story by Shelley Jackson
• 173 • The Magnificent Carp of Hichi Street • short story by Paul Pekin
• 187 • The Tears of Niobe • novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
• 211 • Lettuce • short story by Rikki Ducornet
• 213 • Five Letters from an Eastern Empire • (1979) • novella by Alasdair Gray
• 244 • White Girl • short story by Maureen N. McLane
• 249 • Making Faces • short story by Stephen Shugart
• 257 • The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics • (1982) • short story by Rudy Rucker
• 265 • Nobody's Home • short story by Ira Sher
• 273 • Jubilee Dreams • short story by Karen Heuler
• 288 • An Accounting • short story by Brian Evenson
• 299 • Nobody Walks in London • short story by Terry Grimwood [as by Terry Gates-Grimwood]
• 309 • Armegedn, or The End of the Word • short story by K. Bannerman
• 312 • The Third Jungle Book: A Mowgli Story • [The Jungle Books] • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 322 • Gardener of Heart • (2005) • short story by Bradford Morrow
• 335 • Maryolatry • short story by Laura Moriarty
• 340 • The Cloud Room • short story by Kevin W. Reardon
• 358 • The Ice Cream Vendor • short story by Leena Krohn
• 364 • The Tree • short story by Noelle Sickels
• 374 • The Flowers • short story by Mark Wallace
• 389 • The Tiger's Eye • (1982) • short story by Gladys Swan
• 399 • Old Flames in New Bottles • short story by Michael Andre-Driussi
• 411 • Power Couple, or Love Never Sleeps • short story by Charlie Jane Anders [as by Charlie Anders]
• 419 • Who's There? • short story by Rikki Ducornet
• 420 • The Secret Paths of Rajan Khanna • [Secret Lives] • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 432 • Dream Catcher • short story by Mercedes Sanchez
• 438 • The Night of Love's Last Dance • short story by Randall Silvis
• 453 • B, Longing • short story by Robin Caton
• 470 • Three Tales • short story by Laird Hunt
• 476 • About the Henbane City • short story by Leena Krohn
• 480 • Losing the War • (2001) • short story by Stepan Chapman
• 483 • Skunk • novelette by Justin Courter
• 519 • The White Man • (1995) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 525 • Finding the Words • novelette by Michael Constance
• 564 • English / History • short story by Laura Mullen
• 582 • Ms. Lowe Visits Her Friends • short story by Dorothy Bryant
• 596 • The Birthday of the World • (2000) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 624 • Lionflower Hedge • short story by Ira Sher
• 625 • Why Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories in an Anthology Named ParaSpheres? • essay by Ken Keegan
• 626 • Cake • (2005) • short story by Michael Moorcock