“Last Plane to Heaven: A Love Story” copyright © 2007 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe.
“Houses of the Favored” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press.
“The Starship Mechanic” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr., and Ken Scholes. Originally appeared at Tor.com.
“Permanent Fatal Errors” copyright © 2010 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Is Anybody Out There?, edited by Marty Halpern, DAW.
“‘Hello,’ Said the Gun” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared at Daily Science Fiction.
“The Speed of Time” copyright © 2013 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared at Tor.com.
“West to East” copyright © 2014 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared at Subterranean Online.
“The Women Who Ate Stone Squid” copyright © 2010 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Love and Rockets, edited by Kerrie Lynn Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW.
“Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr., and Ken Scholes. Originally appeared at Tor.com.
“Scent of the Green Cathedral” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press.
“Spendthrift” copyright © 2013 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Coins of Chaos, edited by Jennifer Brozek, EDGE.
“Jefferson’s West” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Boondocks Fantasy, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW.
“They Are Forgotten Until They Come Again” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in River, edited by Alma Alexander, Dark Quest Books.
“The Woman Who Shattered the Moon” copyright © 2012 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in The Villain Comes Home, edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood, Dragon Moon Press.
“The Blade of His Plow” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Human for a Day, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jennifer Brozek, DAW.
“Grindstone” copyright © 2013 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Airships and Automatons, edited by Charles P. Zaglanis, White Cat Publications.
“The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen” copyright © 2012 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Westward Weird, edited by Kerrie Lynn Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW.
“That Which Rises Ever Upward” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in The Fathomless Abyss, edited by Phil Athans, Athans Associates.
“A Feast of Angels” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press.
“Promises: A Tale of the City Imperishable” copyright © 2008 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia, Senses Five Press.
“Testaments” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in The Book of Dreams, edited by Nick Gevers, Subterranean.
“The Fall of the Moon” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, October 2010.
“A Critical Examination of Stigmata’s Print Taking the Rats to Riga” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, HarperCollins.
“From the Countries of Her Dreams” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr., and Shannon Page. Originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, November 2010.
“Unchambered Heart” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in The Chiaroscuro, April 2011.
“Novus Ordo Angelorum” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press.
“The Tentacled Sky” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared on DrabbleCast, number 178, 2010.
“Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Cthulhu’s Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, DAW.
“Her Fingers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors” copyright © 2011 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Postscripts, 24/25, 2011.
“Mother Urban’s Booke of Dayes” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Dark Faith, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications.
“Going Bad” copyright © 2010 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, edited by Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press.
“The Cancer Catechism” copyright © 2012 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Originally appeared in Dark Faith: Invocations, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications.
Afterword copyright © 2014 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.