“The Lake” © 2011 Tananarive Due. First published: The Lake (St. Martin’s Press).
“Summer” © 2007 Tananarive Due. First published: Whispers in the Night, ed. Brandon Massey (Dafina Books/Kensington Corp.).
“Ghost Summer” © 2008 Tananarive Due. First published: The Ancestors, ed. Brandon Massey (Dafina Books/Kensington Corp.).
“Free Jim’s Mine” © 2014 Tananarive Due. First published: Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, eds. Daniel José Older & Rose Fox (Crossed Genres Publications).
“The Knowing” © 2002 Tananarive Due. First published: Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing, eds. Marita Golden & E. Lynn Harris (Harlem Moon).
“Like Daughter” © 2000 Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, ed. Sheree R. Thomas (Aspect/Warner Books).
“Aftermoon” © 2004 Tananarive Due. First published: Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, ed. Sheree R. Thomas (Aspect/Warner Books).
“Trial Day” © 2003 Tananarive Due. First published: Mojo: Conjure Stories, ed. Nalo Hopkinson (Aspect/Warner Books).
“Patient Zero” © 2000 Tananarive Due. First published: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 2000.
“Danger Word” © 2004 Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due. First published: Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers, ed. Brandon Massey (Dafina Books/Kensington Corp.).
“Removal Order” © 2014 Tananarive Due. First published: The End Is Nigh, eds. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broadreach Publishing).
“Herd Immunity” © 2014 Tananarive Due. First published: The End Is Now, eds. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broadreach Publishing)/Lightspeed, September 2014.
“Carriers” © 2015 Tananarive Due. First published: The End Has Come, eds. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broadreach Publishing).
“Señora Suerte” © 2006 Tananarive Due. First published: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 2006.
“Vanishings” © 2015 Tananarive Due. Published here for the first time.