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• ix • The Author Gnaws His Knuckles: A Brief Foreword • essay by John Shirley
• 15 • In the Road • (2001) • short story by John Shirley
• 27 • The Gunshot • (1980) • short story by John Shirley
• 41 • The Sewing Room • short story by John Shirley
• 59 • Nineteen Seconds • (2000) • short story by John Shirley
• 69 • What Would You Do for Love? • (1998) • novelette by John Shirley
• 95 • Seven Knives • novelette by John Shirley
• 117 • War and Peace • (1995) • short story by John Shirley
• 131 • One Stick, Both Ends Sharpened • (2001) • short story by John Shirley
• 143 • Jody and Annie on TV • (1991) • novelette by John Shirley
• 161 • Brittany? Oh: She's in Translucent Blue • (1999) • short story by John Shirley
• 177 • The Word "Random", Deliberately Repeated • (1973) • short story by John Shirley
• 185 • The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be • (1999) • short story by John Shirley
• 189 • Blind Eye • (2006) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe and John Shirley
• 203 • Sleepwalkers • (1988) • short story by John Shirley
• 225 • Buried in the Sky • (2006) • novelette by John Shirley
• 265 • Skeeter Junkie • (1993) • short story by John Shirley
• 277 • Isolation Point, California • short story by John Shirley
• 295 • Miss Singularity • (2005) • novelette by John Shirley
• 325 • My Victim • (2001) • short story by John Shirley
• 341 • Sweet Armageddon • (1993) • short story by John Shirley