Book 1. The hanged man : tales of dread. Eumenides in the fourth floor lavatory -- Quietus -- Deep breathing exercises -- Fat farm -- Closing the timelid -- Freeway games -- A sepulchre of songs -- Prior restraint -- The changed man and the king of words -- Memories of my head -- Lost boys.
Book 2. Flux : tales of human futures. A thousand deaths -- Clap hands and sing -- Dogwalker -- But we try not to act like it -- I put my blue genes on -- In the doghouse -- The originist.
Book 3. Maps in a mirror : fables and fantasies. Unaccompanied sonata -- A cross-country trip to kill Richard Nixon -- The porcelain salamander -- Middle woman -- The bully and the beast -- The princess and the bear -- Sandmagic -- The best day -- A plague of butterflies -- The monkeys thought 'twas all in fun.
Book 4. Cruel miracles : tales of death, hope, and holiness. Mortal gods -- Saving grace -- Eye for eye -- St. Amy's tale -- Kingsmeat -- Holy.
Book 5 Lost songs : the hidden stories. Ender's game -- Mikal's songbird -- Prentice Alvin and the no-good plow -- Malpractice -- Follower -- Hitching -- Damn fine novel -- Billy's box -- The best family home evening ever -- Bicicleta -- I think Mom and Dad are going crazy, Jerry -- Gert Fram.
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A collection of forty-six tales, including "The Lost Songs," brings together all of the short fiction by the best-selling author of Ender's Game and the other Tales of Alvin Maker series, from his first publications in 1977 to 1990, along with a selection of essays and memoir excerpts.