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• x • Foreword (The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe) • essay by Michael D. C. Drout
• xvii • Introduction (The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe) • essay by Hunter Liguore
• xx • Timeline of Catastrophe, 2000-2010 • essay by uncredited
• 26 • Snowmelt • short story by Lane Ashfeldt
• 33 • Teddy and the Last Girl of Brighton Street • short story by William Wood
• 39 • The End of the Beginning • poem by George Moore (I)
• 40 • The Paperless Doctrine of 2152 • short story by Aaron M. Wilson
• 49 • Origins • short story by Liz R. F. Coley
• 66 • Ozymandias • (1818) • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 67 • Omega Museum • short story by Jaleta Clegg
• 72 • Turning In • poem by Caitlin Kenzie Scott
• 73 • Fire and Ice • (1920) • poem by Robert Frost
• 74 • Under Erasure • short story by Murray Leder
• 86 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 96 • Depletion • poem by Mark Brandon Allen
• 97 • Old Gods at the Armageddon • short story by Jeffery Ryan Long
• 111 • Helen of Troy • (1911) • poem by Sara Teasdale
• 113 • Suicide of the World • short fiction by Andre Saglio
• 120 • Nuclear Winter • poem by Nicolas Samaras
• 121 • Gip • short story by Mark Taylor (I)
• 126 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 132 • The Last Man on Earth • short story by Big Jim Williams
• 134 • Eclipse • poem by Alicia A. Curtis [as by Alicia Curtis]
• 135 • The Last Day of Sanity • short story by Darryll B. Snyder
• 139 • Immutable • poem by Janelle Schwartz
• 140 • The Last Unicorn • short story by H. L. Liguore
• 146 • The Last Hours • (1919) • poem by D. H. Lawrence
• 147 • Cassandra • (1978) • short story by C. J. Cherryh
• 157 • Cee-Cee was My Dog • poem by John Dudek
• 158 •
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  • short story by Jack Frey
• 166 • My Blue Ribbon Pies • short story by Jacquelyn Fedyk
• 175 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 181 • Finley's Last Chapter • short fiction by Alexandra Wolfe
• 186 • Life of a Child • short story by Samantha Boyette
• 195 • The End of the World • (1911) • essay by Hilaire Belloc
• 200 • Arturo • short story by M. Sullivan
• 212 • Going Home • short story by Kodilynn Calhoun
• 221 • Life Gaped Open • poem by Alan Gann
• 222 • The Scarlet Plague • (1912) • novella by Jack London
• 231 • The Last of Everything • poem by Cassandra Consiglio
• 232 • Corridors • (1982) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 246 • The Last of the Great Coffee Shop Philosophers • short story by Koos Kombuis
• 253 • Last Call • short story by Mark Edwards
• 260 • Author Biographies (The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe) • essay by uncredited
• 266 • Acknowledgements (The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe) • essay by uncredited
• 267 • About the Editor (The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe) • essay by uncredited