Contents (view Concise Listing)

• i • Introduction (Tales from the Lake: Volume 5) • essay by Kenneth W. Cain
• 1 • From the Mouths of Plague-Mongers • poem by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 3 • Umbilicus • short story by Lucy Taylor
• 20 • The Weeds and the Wildness Yet • short story by Robert Stahl
• 32 • The Color of Loss and Love • short story by Jason Sizemore
• 51 • Maggie • short story by Andi Rawson
• 54 • A Dream Most Ancient and Alone • short story by Allison Pang
• 70 • Malign and Chronic Recreation • (2018) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 72 • Guardian • short story by Paul Michael Anderson
• 92 • The Flutter of Silent Wings • short story by Gene O'Neill
• 102 • Hollow Skulls • short story by Samuel Marzioli
• 120 • In the Family • non-genre • short story by Lucy A. Snyder
• 131 • Dead Bodies Don't Scream • short story by Michelle Ann King
• 147 • Twelve by Noon • short story by Joanna Parypinski
• 161 • The Monster Told Me To • short story by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 176 • Final Passage • (2018) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 178 • Starve a Fever • short story by Jonah Buck
• 195 • Voices Like Barbed Wire • short story by Tim Waggoner
• 215 • Nonpareil • short story by Laura Blackwell
• 232 • Always After Three • short story by Gemma Files
• 253 • The Midland Hotel • short story by Marge Simon
• 257 • Farewell Valencia • short story by Craig Wallwork
• 276 • The Boy • short story by Cory Cone
• 292 • The Loudest Silence • non-genre • short story by Meghan Arcuri
• 298 • The Followers • short story by Peter Mark May
• 305 • A Bathtub at the End of the World, or, How Mr. Whittaker Achieved Knighthood • short story by Lane Waldman