These stories were originally published as follows:
"The Pelican Bar,” Eclipse 3, 2009
"Booth's Ghost” appears here for the first time.
"The Last Worders,” Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 20, 2007
"The Dark,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1991
"Always,” Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2007
"Familiar Birds,” Journal of Mythic Arts, Spring 2006
"Private Grave 9,” McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, 2003
"The Marianas Islands,” Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, 1996
"Halfway People,” My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, 2010
"Standing Room Only,” Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1997
"What I Didn't See,” SciFiction, 2002
"King Rat,” Trampoline, 2003