The collected short fiction of Tim Pratt, 1998 to 2012. Table of contents: Fireflies First Date 53rd Annual Mantis Homecoming Dance Angel of the Ordinary Their Young Puppets of the Nano Master Cassie The Dog Boys Pearls, Frogs, Spiders The Fallen and the Muse of the Street Straight Trade Werewolves and Princesses Plastic Scorpions Dr. Nefarious and the Lazarus Project Bleeding West Entropy's Paintbrush Hatchling Annabelle's Alphabet Behemoth The Man Who Loved the Moon Little Gods Bone Sigh The Invisible Musicians The Ever-After Book Shoppe (with Heather Shaw) Dancing Shoes The Witch's Bicycle Melancholy Shore Unfairy Tale A Serious Case of Fairies The Heart, a Chambered Nautilus The Scent of Copper Pennies Fable from a Cage Encounter on a Back Street Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters The Sea a Deeper Black Robin of Wonderland Wood Down with the Lizards and the Bees Bridge Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown (with Heather Shaw) Broken Branches (with Heather Shaw) Helljack (with Michael J. Jasper) Living with the Harpy Pale Dog Rowboats, Sacks of Gold Romanticore Winter on the Pyre Behemoth Brewing and Distribution Co. Terrible Ones Hart and Book In a Glass Casket Life in Stone Pages Torn from the Wanderer's Diary Eros and Thanatos Blind Date (with Nick Mamatas) Lachrymose and the Golden Egg Haruspex Pride Is an Engine Bottom Feeding Robots and Falling Hearts (with Greg van Eekhout) Bluebeard and the White Buffalo Woman: A Rangergirl Yarn Gillian Underground (with Michael J. Jasper and Greg van Eekhout) Gulls The Tyrant in Love Jubilee Impossible Dreams Cup and Table Dream Engine The Third-Quarter King The Crawlspace of the World The Christmas Mummy (with Heather Shaw) Headache Gingerbread Jen at the Crossroads Komodo From Around Here Restless In My Hand Artifice and Intelligence Morris and the Machine Observer Effects Grander than the Sea The River Boy The Frozen One The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft (with Nick Mamatas) On a Blade of Grass A Steadfast Tin Soldier A Lake of Spaces Origin Story A Programatic Approach to Perfect Happiness Her Voice in a Bottle Over There Unexpected Outcomes Another End of the Empire Old Ones Troublesolving Silver Linings At the Monkey Party Incubus Uchronia Caltrops Letter Fiddle Scientific Romance Cinderlands Mommy Issues of the Dea Rangifer Volans: A Very Cryptozoological Christmas Our Stars, Our Selves Shark's Teeth Little Better than a Beast Hell's Lottery De Gustibus Luminous Obfuscation Raffle Solipism Xylomancy Vamonos We Go Back Antiquities and Tangibles A Void Wrapped in a Smile The Secret Beach A Fairy Tale of Oakland The Ghost of Christmas Possible (with Heather Shaw) Ill Met in Ulthar Right Turns A Tomb of Winter's Plunder The Carved Forest Wishflowers A Cloak of Many Worlds Snake and Mongoose The Haunted Mech Suit Cages The Fairy Library
A most excellent collection. Altho' I've got Tim's other collections, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of material that I'd not read before. Tim's got a real range. Altho' I have one complaint: not a single story had Baba Yaga or her hut in it. This seems a terrible oversight.