Contents -- Once upon a Time: A Short Story on Violence -- Acknowledgements -- Lather and Nothing Else -- The Execution -- The Soldiers -- My Father Was Blue -- The Day We Buried Our Weapons -- Prelude -- A Christmas Story -- The New Order -- Family Birthday Wishes -- Fear -- The Designator -- Gelatin -- The Procession of Shadows -- The Aroma of Death -- Bitter Sorrows -- Eme -- The Feast -- Vendors of Peculiar Objects -- Brides by Night -- The Sixth Commandment -- Contributors.