Today I am announcing the Table of Contents for this fall's upcoming THE BEST OF TALEBONES anthology.

This is all in stone EXCEPT for the story by Terry McGarry; I'm still trying to get in touch with her.

A dang pretty good bunch of writers (and stories), wouldn't you say? :) The hardest decisions to make were the authors who had multiple stories in the magazine. It came down to some tough choices, and I even enlisted the help of the authors themselves on a few occasions. In alphabetical order by author last name...


Barth Anderson, "Landlocked"
Jennifer Rachel Baumer,  "The Forever Sleep"
Marie Brennan, "The Twa Corbies"
Mike Brotherton,  "Jack in the Box"
Jack Cady,  "The Parable of Satan's Adversary"
Stephen Couch,  "The Dandelion Clock"
Aliette de Bodard,  "Safe, Child, Safe"
Eric Del Carlo, "Nothing But Fear"
Alan DeNiro,  "Comachrome"
Charles Coleman Finlay,  "Hail Conductor"
James C. Glass,  "Robbie"
Anne Harris,  "Still Life with Boobs"
Barb Hendee , "The Winds of Brennan Marcher"
Nina Kiriki Hoffman,  "Snow on Snow"
Kay Kenyon,  "The Acid Test"
Mary Robinette Kowal,  "Death Comes But Twice"
Jay Lake, "Tall Spirits, Blocking the Night"
Catherine Macleod, "Seepage"
Nick Mamatas, "Your Life, Fifteen Minutes from Now"
Louise Marley,  "Night Shift"
Sandra McDonald,  "Bluebeard by the Sea"
Terry McGarry,  "God of Exile"
Paul Melko,  "Ten Sigmas"
William Mingin,  "From Sunset to the White Sea"
Devon Monk, " Sugar 'n' Spice"
William F. Nolan,  "Wolf Song"
Patrick O'Leary, " 23 Skidoo"
Tom Piccirilli,  "Caucasus"
John A. Pitts,  "Three Chords and the Truth"
Sarah Prineas,  "The Dog Prince"
Ken Rand, "Song of Mother Jungle"
Mark Rich,  "Zothique Mi Amor"
Uncle River,  "Love of the True God"
Patricia Russo,  "Swoop"
James Sallis,  "Roofs and Forgiveness in the Early Dawn"
Ken Scholes,  "Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk"
Jack Skillingstead,  "Two"
Bruce Taylor,  "Spiders"
Steve Rasnic Tem, "Cats, Dogs, and Other Creatures"
James Van Pelt,  "The Yard God"
Carrie Vaughn,  "The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair"
Ray Vukcevich, "The Next Best Thing"