Contents (view Concise Listing)

• [v] •  The Touch: Epidemic of the Millennium • interior artwork by Edward Gorey
• xi • Introduction: Touch • essay by Katherine Dunn
• xiv • This Is a Public Safety Notice from the Center for Deprivers Control • short story by uncredited
• 1 •  The Touch • interior artwork by Edward Gorey
• 3 • The Penitent • short story by Linda K. Wright
• 15 • After the War • short story by Karl Schroeder (variant of Allegiances)
• 30 • A Blind Virgin Like a Loaded Gun • novelette by Steven-Elliot Altman
• 54 • The People of the State of New York -Versus- Duncan Cameron • novelette by Paul Jon Edelstein
• 82 • Waiting for the Girl from California • short story by Dean Whitlock
• 98 • Marginal Existence • short story by Jan Clark
• 110 • Don't Touch Me • short story by Sean Stewart
• 123 • The Janitor • short story by Maggie Estep
• 138 • Idiots Losers Fools • short story by D. H. Resnicoff
• 151 • Rent Memories • short story by Keith Aaron
• 165 • The Lieutenant • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 175 • For Good People Like You • short story by Jonathan Shipley
• 185 • The Companion • short story by Lisa D. Williamson
• 195 • The Only One • short story by Leah Ryan
• 213 • Angel • novelette by Janet Harvey
• 236 • Suffer the Little Children • short story by Tananarive Due
• 245 • Ellis Island • short story by Joanne Dahme
• 255 • Death Goddess of the Lower East Side • short story by Link Yaco
• 271 • Shared Losses • short story by Bob Mahnken
• 286 • Precautions • (2000) • short story by Kit Reed
• 295 • Red Devil Statement • short story by Janet Asimov
• 308 • Gifted • short story by Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse
• 328 • Freak • short story by William F. Nolan
• 339 • The Center for Deprivers Control: Caseworker Biographies • essay by uncredited