For Patrick Swenson —
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COPYRIGHTS
“Introduction” © 2010 by John A. Pitts; The following stories are © Ken Scholes except “There Once a Girl from Nantucket (A Fortean Love Story)” © 2006 by Ken Scholes and John A. Pitts. “A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon” © 2009 Tor.Com ; “The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name” © 2008 Abyss and Apex; “The God-Voices of Settler’s Rest” © 2008 Intergalactic Medicine Show; “The Music of the Spheres” © 2008 One Step Beyond, Subatomic Press; “Four Clowns of the Apocalypse and the Mecca of Mirth” © 2010 First Appearance Anywhere; “The Boy Who Could Bend and Fall” © 2009 Electric Velocipede; “The Second Gift Given” © 2009 Clarkesworld; “Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” © 2008 Eclipse Two, Nightshade Books; “The Taking Night” © 2000 Talebones; “On the Settling of Ancient Scores” © 2005 Son and Foe; “In Time of Despair and Great Darkness” © 2009 Realms of Fantasy; “Of Missing Kings and Backward Dreams and the Honoring of Lies” © 2010, First Appearance Anywhere; “Grief-Stepping to the Widowers Waltz” © 2010 First Appearance Anywhere; “Love in the Time of Car Alarms” © 2009 The Trouble With Heroes, DAW Books; “What Child Is This, I Ask the Midnight Clear” © 2007 Shimmer Magazine Holiday Chapbook; “Grail-Diving in Shangrilla with the World’s Last Mime” © 2009 Subterranean Online.