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Polyphony is a new biannual anthology of original short fiction. Featuring a mix of established and new writers, Polyphony Volume 1 offers a dozen stories that skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake
• The Holy Bright Number - short story by Andy Duncan
• How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Blind Date with the Invisible Man - short story by Leslie What
• Love Story - short story by Ray Vukcevich
• Anthropology - short story by Victoria Elisabeth Garcia
• The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• The Doctor - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• The Sea Monkey Conspiracy - novelette by Douglas Lain
• The Room on the Roof - (2002) - novelette by Vandana Singh
• Do Good - short story by James Van Pelt
• Laika Comes Back Safe - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Main Design That Shines Through Sky and Earth - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers

This is a new biannual anthology of original short fiction featuring a mix ofestablished and new writers.

Table of Contents:

• The Same Old Story - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• The Hanging - short story by Jack Dann
• Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold - (2003) - short story by Theodora Goss
• Animal Attributes - novelette by Honna Swenson
• The Uterus Garden - novelette by Alex Irvine
• Coo People - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Chrysalide - short story by Beth Bernobich
• The Arts of Malediction - short story by Lisa Goldstein
• Into the Jungle - short story by Kit Reed
• Theo's Girl - novelette by David Moles
• Andalusian Triptych, 1962 - non-genre - short story by Michael Bishop
• Dead White Guys - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Burning in the Montage - (1993) - short story by Timalyne Frazier
• Carlos Manson Lives - short story by Sally Carteret
• Dreaming for Hire, By Appointment Only - novelette by Dianna Rodgers
• Last Man on Earth - short story by Brendan Day

This is the latest volume in the critically acclaimed Polyphony anthology series. Featuring a mix of established and new authors, this edition offers 21 original works of short fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Don Ysidro - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Rings Around the Moon - novella by Jack Dann
• The Road Leads Back - short story by Michael Bishop
• The Snow Queen's Risk Assessment - short story by Chris Clarke
• Doc Hawthorne's Beautiful Daughter - short story by Don Webb
• A Short History of the Roosterville Poetry Massacre - short story by Jesse Walker
• The Mystery of Our Baraboo Lands - short story by Barth Anderson
• No Two Alike - short story by Kit Reed
• Heart of Glass - short story by Lori Ann White
• The Men's Support Group - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• Handsome, Winsome Johnny - novelette by Sally Carteret
• The Wife - short story by Vandana Singh
• Wild Talents - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Krebs Cycle as Interpretive Dance - short story by Kathy Oltion
• Wounds - short story by Celia Marsh
• Restoration - short story by Heather Shaw
• Valley of the Falling Clouds - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
• A Grand Unified Theory of Mind - novelette by Leon J. West
• Our Byzantium - short story by Alan DeNiro
• Coffins on the River - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Morning Meditation - short story by Ray Vukcevich

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jay Lake and Deborah Layne
• The Girl with the Sun in Her Head - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Down in the Fog-Shrouded City - (2002) - novelette by Alex Irvine
• Black Dog at Work - short story by Steven Mohan, Jr.
• The Blackpool Ascensions - novella by Lucius Shepard
• The Mud Fork Cottonmouth Expedition - short story by Eric M. Witchey
• When They Came - short story by Don Webb
• Over Alsace - (2004) - short story by Forrest Aguirre
• State Change - short story by Ken Liu
• High Rise High - novelette by Kit Reed
• The Storyteller's Story - short story by Gavin J. Grant
• Memree - short story by Jenn Reese
• The Eye - short story by Eliot Fintushel
• The Train There's No Getting Off - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers and Ray Vukcevich and Holly Arrow
• Baby Love - short story by Michael Bishop
• Psyche and Eros - short story by Diana Sherman
• Hart and Boot - short story by Tim Pratt
• Life in the Movies - short story by Mikal Trimm
• Bagging the Peak - short story by Jerry Oltion
• The Journal of Philip Schuyler - novelette by Robert Freeman Wexler
• Ataxia, The Wooden Continent - short story by Stepan Chapman
• Tales from the City of Seams - short story by Greg van Eekhout
• The Wings of Meister Wilhelm - novelette by Theodora Goss
• Crazy Rain - short story by Piper Selden
• Three Days in a Border Town - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer

Table of Contents:

• Single White Farmhouse - (2005) - short story by Heather Shaw
• The Beauty of the World Has Two Edges - (2005) - short story by Iain Rowan
• Story Stories: A Suite of Seven Narratives - (2005) - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Gillian Underground - (2005) - short story by Michael Jasper and Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout
• Habe Ich Meinen Eigenen Tod Geseh'n - (2005) - short story by Paul O. Miles
• After The Sky Fell - (2005) - short story by Rob Vagle
• Redundant Sue and the Billy Goat Blue - (2005) - short story by Blake Hutchins
• The Happy Jumping Woman - (2005) - short story by Robin Catesby
• The Farmer's Cat - (2005) - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• Dusty Wings - (2005) - short story by Nancy Jane Moore
• Femina Obscura - (2005) - short story by Joy Marchand
• The Green Wall - (2005) - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
• Among The Ruins - (2005) - short story by Forrest Aguirre
• The Bone Ship - (2005) - short story by Scott Thomas
• Crystal Vision - (2005) - short story by Eric Schaller
• Nine Electric Flowers - (2005) - short story by Sally Carteret
• To-Do List - (2005) - short story by Nick Mamatas
• The Woman in the Numbers - (2005) - short story by M. K. Hobson
• The Tongue - (2005) - short story by Brendan Connell
• The Hottest Night of the Summer - (2005) - short story by Rick Waldholm
• Dog on a Loose Chain - (2005) - short story by Sarah Totton
• Dwelling - (2005) - short story by John Aegard
• Vaudeville's Puppet - (2005) - short story by Aynjel Kaye
• How Eddie Changed the World - (2005) - short story by Bob Urell
• The Woman Who Spoke in Parables - (2005) - short story by Brian Richard Wade
• Tongues - (2005) - short story by Ray Vukcevich
• Death Comes for Ervina - (2005) - short story by Theodora Goss
• Ithrulene - (2005) - short story by Alex Lamb
• Fugue - (2005) - short story by Jay Caselberg
• Nature Mort - (2005) - short story by Leslie What
• A Love for All Time - (2005) - short story by D. G. K. Goldberg

Table of Contents:

• The Library of Pi - short story by Ray Vukcevich
• Chasing America - novelette by Josh Rountree
• Faulkner's Seesaw - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
• Willa - short story by Robert Reed
• The Adventures of Philip Schuyler and the Dapper Marrionette in the City of the Limbless Octopi - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
• Keys I Don't Remember - short story by Forrest Aguirre
• The Syncopation Streak - short story by Anna Tambour
• Manifest Destiny - short story by David J. Schwartz
• For The Sky is Made of Glass - short story by Hannah Wolf Bowen
• Crab - short story by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
• God Juice - novelette by M. K. Hobson
• Fire Rising in the Moon - short story by Laura Anne Gilman
• The Crawlspace of the World - short story by Tim Pratt
• The Heresy Box - short story by Darin Bradley
• theleeharveyoswaldband - short story by Ben Peek
• Wanderers - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Uncanny Valley - short story by Nick Mamatas
• Soon We Shall All Be Saunders - short story by Ken Scholes
• The Last Drinkin' Man's Blues - short story by Mikal Trimm
• And I Ask Myself the Same Question - short story by Haddayr Copley-Woods
• Winter In Aso - novelette by Paul M. Berger
• Orange Groves Out To The Horizon - short story by Richard Wadholm
• The Drowned Father - novelette by Pamela Sargent
• Missy Victoria - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• An Autumn Butterfly - short story by Esther M. Friesner