Contents

• "The Machineries of Joy"
• "The One Who Waits"
• "Tyrannosaurus Rex"
• "The Vacation"
• "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
• "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar"
• "Almost the End of the World"
• "Perhaps We Are Going Away"
• "El Día de Muerte"
• "The Illustrated Woman"
• "Some Live Like Lazarus"
• "And So Died Riabouchinska"
• "The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge"
• "Death and the Maiden"
• "A Flight of Ravens"
• "The Best of All Possible Worlds"
• "The Lifework of Juan Díaz"
• "To the Chicago Abyss"
• "The Anthem Sprinters"