ISBN: 1640765182 9781640765184

Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies

Page count: 254

<p>A heart that's a building, a dog that's a program, a woman who's sinking irretrievably - stories about love, loss, and motion. A collection of speculative stories from author and editor B. Morris Allen.</p><p><br></p><p>Chambers of the Heart – it's hard, living in someone's heart</p><p>Building on Sand – how to choose between children</p><p>Blush – when everyone else wears a mask, what's it like to bare your face?</p><p>Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon – magic, music, and ... buffalo?</p><p>Fetch – she may be a simulation, but out on the edge, she’s one man’s best friend</p><p>The Humblebract Expedition – even dying children like to play</p><p>When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed – a doorway to opportunity and change, if only humans can understand it</p><p>Some Sun and Delilah – a sunny island, an abandoned temple, and thoug</p><p>Crying in the Salt House – the house is built from tears, or so they say</p><p>Full of Stars – jar half empty, jar half full</p><p>Memory and Faded Ink – the aliens are perfectly human ... and just as flawed</p><p>Fountainhead – arranged meetings never work, especially with different species</p><p>Adaptations to Coastal Erosion – when your spouse is literally falling away from you</p><p>Outburst – Earth is dead, except for a few teens on a decaying orbital</p><p>The Irrigation Ditch – they came to hide, but didn’t realize it was from each other</p><p>Dragons I Have Slain – take hope where you find it</p><p>Cover art by Bonnie Leeman</p><p> </p><p><br></p>