Introduction --The hanging game -- Secondhand magic -- I'm the lady of good times, she said -- Lessons in the raising of household objects -- All my love, a fishhook -- In the year of omens -- The Santa Claus Parade -- The Zhanell Adler brass spyglass -- Death and the girl from Pi Delta Zeta -- Crossroads and gateways -- Ship house -- A brief history of science fiction -- Supply limited, act now -- We ruin the sky -- In the moonlight, the skin of you -- The gallery of the eliminated -- The slipway grey.