PUBLICATION HISTORY

“Messages”—originally published in Realms of Fantasy (February 2006)

“Scenario B”—original to this collection “Apology”—originally published in Brutarian(November 2004)

“Freshets”—originally published in Queer Fear II(Arsenal Pulp Press; December 2002)

“Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event”—originally published in Denying Death (Prime Books; November2003)

“Jimmy Dale”—originally published at Gothic.Net(April 2001)

“Jewels”—originally published in The Asylum . . . Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane, Vol. 1: The PsychoWard (Darktales Publications; 1999)

“Water-song”—original to this collection

“Danny Boy”—originally published in The Asylum . . . Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane, Vol. 2: The Violent Ward (Darktales Publications; April 2002)

“Slipknot”—originally published in Borderlands 5(Borderlands Press; November 2003)

“Silica”—originally published at Gothic.Net (January 2000)

“A Diamond of Skin and Love”—originally published in Vivisections (Catalyst Press; March 2003)

“Subliminal Verses”—originally published in Trunk Stories (November 2005)

“The Collective”—originally published in Denying Death (Prime Books; November 2003)

“The Time Between Lights”—originally published in Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox (Irrational Press; December 2001)

“Running Beneath the Skin”—originally published in Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge (Penguin/Roc Books; October 2005)

“Marching the Hate Machines Into the Sun”—original to this collection

“Landscape”—originally published in Trunk Stories (November 2003)

“Wall”—originally published at Ideomancer.com(December 2005)

“Bottom Drawer”—originally published in Vestal Review (January 2005)