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• Carrion Comfort • (1983) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons
• The Death of the Centaur • [Hyperion Cantos] • (1991) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites • (1989) • short story by Dan Simmons
• Iverson's Pits • (1988) • novella by Dan Simmons
• The Offering • (1987) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• Metastasis • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons
• Remembering Siri • (1983) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle • (1985) • short story by Dan Simmons
• Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons
• Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams • (1982) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• The River Styx Runs Upstream • (1982) • short story by Dan Simmons
• E-Ticket to 'Namland • (1987) • novelette by Dan Simmons (variant of E-Ticket to Namland)
• Introduction (Prayers to Broken Stones) • (1991) • essay by Harlan Ellison