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• 1 • Introduction (Bitter Waters) • (2014) • essay by Geoff Ryman
• 3 • Another Chart of the Silences • (2005) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 19 • Junk Male • (2000) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 33 • The Pillow-Boy of General Shu • [Moshui, the Books of Stone and Water] • (2014) • short story by Chaz Brenchley (variant of The Pillow Boy of General Shu 2009)
• 49 • In the Night Street Baths • (2008) • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• 69 • The Insolence of Candles Against the Night's Dying • (2000) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 87 • Parting Shots • (2008) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 93 • Up the Airy Mountain • (2000) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 113 • The Light of Other Eyes • (2014) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 119 • Septicaemia • (2014) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 123 • The Cupboard of Cold Things • (2014) • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• 131 • True North • (2014) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 145 • Hothouse Flowers, or The Discreet Boys of Dr. Barnabas • (2010) • novelette by Chaz Brenchley (variant of Hothouse Flowers)
• 165 • One for Every Year He's Away, She Said • (1995) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 175 • Keep the Aspidochelone Floating • (2012) • novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• 205 • 'Tis Pity He's Ashore • (2009) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 219 • The Boat of Not Belonging • (2014) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 231 • Villainelle • (2012) • short story by Chaz Brenchley