This is the third collection of Newford stories, bringing together all the Newford material written since The Ivory and the Horn was published in 1995, including almost all the stories published in various anthologies and other sources up to the end of 1998. The contents are as follows:

"Sweetgrass & City Streets"	a poem original to this collection
"Saskia"	a short story which first appeared in Space Opera, edited by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; DAW Books, 1996
"In This Soul of a Woman"	a short story which first appeared in Love in Vein, edited by Poppy Z. Brite; HarperPrism, 1994
"The Big Sky"	a novelet which first appeared in Heaven Sent, edited by Peter Crowther; DAW Books, 1995
"Birds"	a short story which first appeared in The Shimmering Door, edited by Katharine Kerr; HarperPrism, 1996
"Passing"	a short story which first appeared in Excalibur, edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer; Warner Books, 1995
"Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines"	a short story which first appeared in Castle Perilous, edited by John DeChancie & Martin H. Greenberg; DAW Books, 1996
"In the Pines"	a short story which first appeared in Destination Unknown, edited by Peter Crowther; White Wolf Publishing, 1997
"Shining Nowhere But In the Dark"	a short story which first appeared in Realms Of Fantasy, Vol.3, No.1, October, 1996
"If I Close My Eyes Forever"	a short story original to this collection, based on a comic book script of the same title which appeared in Weird Business, edited by Joe R. Lansdale & Richard Klaw; Mojo Press, 1995
"Heartfires"	a short story which first appeared as a limited edition chapbook published by Triskell Press, 1994
"The Invisibles"	a short story which first appeared in David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination, edited by David Copperfield & Janet Berliner; HarperPrism, 1997
"Seven for a Secret"	a short story which first appeared in Immortal Unicorn, edited by Peter S. Beagle & Janet Berliner, New York: HarperPrism, 1995
"Crow Girls"	a short story which first appeared as a limited edition chapbook published by Triskell Press, 1995
"Wild Horses"	a short story which first appeared in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Lawrence Schimel; Daw Books, 1997
"In the Land of the Unforgiven"	a short story original to this collection
"My Life As A Bird"	a short story which first appeared as a limited edition chapbook published by Triskell Press, 1996
"China Doll"	a short story which first appeared in The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams, edited by James O'Barr & Edward E. Kramer; Del Rey, 1998
"In the Quiet After Midnight"	a short story which first appeared in Olympus, edited by Bruce D. Arthurs & Martin H. Greenberg; DAW Books, 1998
"The Pennymen"	a short story which first appeared in Black Cats and Broken Mirrors, edited by John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg; DAW Books, 1998
"Twa Corbies"	a short story which first appeared in Twenty 3: A Miscellany, edited by Anna Hepworth, Simon Oxwell & Grant Watson; Infinite Monkeys/Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation, 1998; based on a comic book script of the same title which appeared in The Book of Ballads and Sagas; Green Man Press, 1997
"The Fields Beyond the Fields"	a short story which first appeared as a limited edition chapbook published by Triskell Press, 1997