CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Promises

Funeral on Rye with Mustard

Welcome to the Hotel Glioblastoma

The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: And Other Unfortunate Platitudes

Brown-Rice Sushi

Baldwin

Assisted Living Facilities Have Good Ice Cream

Dark Side of the Moon

Measure for Measure

Morning Has Broken

We’re Off to See the Wizard

Yellow Smiley Sickroom

Truth and Truancy

Bottle of Cow

Bildungsroman and Other Four-Syllable Words

Ernie’s Junk Shop

Blue Willow

After

Beef Lo Mein

Thomas A. Trowbridge the Fourth

Sophomores Are Sophomoric and Other Tautologies

Trust Fall

To Be or Not

Lady J. and the Age of Aquarius

Nirvana

All Things Fragile and Desperate

Ungeziefer Verwandelt

Misery Makes Good Fiction

Get Thee to a Nunnery

Triangles and Other Three-Sided Polygons

Birds to the Slaughter

Perchance to Dream

Scorpion Bowl

TARDIS

Concussion with Extra Cheese

Walrus

Early-Morning Singing Song

Laughter and Tears

Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune

Long Road Home

Paper Cranes

Shard

Aftermath

Steampunk

Ready to Fall

The Fall of a Sparrow

Encore

Curtain Call

Acknowledgments

Also by Marcella Pixley

About the Author

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