Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Dawn of Time -- The Book of Steve -- Arson in Ladytown -- Some Kisses -- The Goddess Freyja in the E.R. -- That Time Again -- The Pack -- Cast Casing, Eastern Pondhawk -- Sump -- Losing the Way -- Mid-July, 39 -- Hook Woman -- The Earthquake -- "Have a Blessed Day" -- Hydro Plant Accommodates Rafting Industry -- Torch Song -- Sneakthief -- The Kings of Tarshish -- Maytide: The Orgy -- With Child -- Haggadah -- To the Unborn -- Sprickets -- Sam and Ralph -- November Evening, Splitting Stovewood -- There Is a Tide -- Occult Bat Encounters -- Toast -- Secrets -- Legacy -- One More Ars Poetica -- Leaffall -- Last River -- In the Graveyard -- Seedstash -- Among the Assassins -- The Hole -- Men's Neckties -- Eggcorns -- This Time -- Sirens, Chesapeake Bay -- The Man Who Tried to Save Holland Island -- The Fairy Your Parents Forgot to Ask to the Christening -- Promise Land -- Secret Identity -- Cannibal Family -- Eating the Dead -- The People She Knows -- The Body -- Swarm.