A heart that's a building, a dog that's a program, a woman who's sinking irretrievably - stories about love, loss, and motion. A collection of speculative stories from author and editor B. Morris Allen.

• Chambers of the Heart - it's hard, living in someone's heart
• Building on Sand - how to choose between children
• Blush - when everyone else wears a mask, what's it like to bare your face?
• Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon - magic, music, and ... buffalo?
• Fetch - she may be a simulation, but out on the edge, she's one man's best friend
• The Humblebract Expedition - even dying children like to play
• When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed - a doorway to opportunity and change, if only humans can understand it
• Some Sun and Delilah - a sunny island, an abandoned temple, and thoug
• Crying in the Salt House - the house is built from tears, or so they say
• Full of Stars - jar half empty, jar half full
• Memory and Faded Ink - the aliens are perfectly human ... and just as flawed
• Fountainhead - arranged meetings never work, especially with different species
• Adaptations to Coastal Erosion - when your spouse is literally falling away from you
• Outburst - Earth is dead, except for a few teens on a decaying orbital
• The Irrigation Ditch - they came to hide, but didn't realize it was from each other
• Dragons I Have Slain - take hope where you find it

Cover art by Bonnie Leeman