Contains: The last straw / Christopher Golden -- Still life with peckerwood / Anya Martin and Philip Nutman -- Reunion (the library) / Mike Lee -- The head / Melissa Mia Hall -- The ratz in the halls / Gregory Nicoll -- An eye for an eye / Norman Partridge -- Curtains for Nat Crumley / T.E.D. Klein -- The inverted violin / Kathe Koja -- Bundling / Lucy Taylor -- Bone tunes / Wayne Allen Sallee -- Afternoons with the beasts / David Aaron Clark -- The monster lab / Steve Antczak -- Someone's in the kitchen / Nancy A. Collins.