Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Polyphony: Volume 4) • essay by Jay Lake and Deborah Layne
• 1 • The Girl with the Sun in Her Head • short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• 11 • Down in the Fog-Shrouded City • (2002) • novelette by Alex Irvine
• 39 • Black Dog at Work • short story by Steven Mohan, Jr.
• 49 • The Blackpool Ascensions • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 97 • The Mud Fork Cottonmouth Expedition • short story by Eric M. Witchey
• 107 • When They Came • short story by Don Webb
• 115 • Over Alsace • (2004) • short story by Forrest Aguirre
• 119 • State Change • short story by Ken Liu
• 133 • High Rise High • novelette by Kit Reed
• 169 • The Storyteller's Story • short story by Gavin J. Grant [as by Gavin Grant]
• 185 • Memree • short story by Jenn Reese
• 191 • The Eye • short story by Eliot Fintushel
• 207 • The Train There's No Getting Off • novelette by Holly Arrow and Bruce Holland Rogers and Ray Vukcevich
• 243 • Baby Love • non-genre • [Georgia Stories] • short story by Michael Bishop
• 257 • Psyche and Eros • short story by Diana Sherman
• 261 • Hart and Boot • short story by Tim Pratt
• 279 • Life in the Movies • short story by Mikal Trimm
• 287 • Bagging the Peak • short story by Jerry Oltion
• 295 • The Journal of Philip Schuyler • novelette by Robert Freeman Wexler
• 327 • Ataxia, the Wooden Continent • short story by Stepan Chapman
• 339 • Tales from the City of Seams • short story by Greg van Eekhout
• 355 • The Wings of Meister Wilhelm • novelette by Theodora Goss
• 379 • Crazy Rain • short story by Piper Selden
• 383 • Three Days in a Border Town • [Veniss] • novelette by Jeff VanderMeer