Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Preface: Endings and Beginnings • (2013) • essay by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Introduction (Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology) • (2013) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• The Parrot Man • (1993) • short fiction by Kathleen Ann Goonan [as by Kathleen Goonan]
• Absalom's Mother • (2006) • short story by Louise Marley
• Mulberry Boys • (2011) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• The Fate of Mice • (2005) • short story by Susan Palwick
• My She • (2009) • short story by Mary Rosenblum
• Bitter Dreams • [Bitter Dreams] • (2008) • novelette by Ian McHugh
• Leviathan Wept • (2004) • short story by Daniel Abraham
• Start the Clock • (2004) • short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• I Hold My Father's Paws • (2006) • short story by David D. Levine [as by David Levine]
• Beluthahatchie • (1997) • short story by Andy Duncan
• Another Word for Map Is Faith • (2006) • short story by Christopher Rowe
• The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail • (2008) • short story by Rachel Swirsky
• A Boy in Cathyland • [Cathy] • (2001) • short story by David Marusek
• The Water Museum • (2008) • short story by Nisi Shawl
• The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change • (2007) • novelette by Kij Johnson
• The Lineaments of Gratified Desire • [Califa short fiction] • (2006) • novella by Ysabeau S. Wilce