Every year at Christmas time I write a short story for MaryAnn that I publish in chapbook form through my Triskell Press imprint. I've been doing this for twenty-two years now; the earliest stories were printed in editions of only one copy. It wasn't long before we decided to share the chapbooks as a Christmas gift for friends and family. In recent years, the stories have been reprinted in magazines, convention program books and my own short story collections—but their first breath of life has always been in chapbook form.

Along the way, I've had a few small press publishers offer to do a limited edition collection of these stories, but the time never felt right until now. MaryAnn and I thought that it would be fun to celebrate the millennium with a hardcover edition of all the chapbook stories to date.

This is where Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press comes in. I like Bill's publishing philosophy. He prints the amount he says he will and he keeps the cost down for the reader. He also does a bang-up job in terms of production values.

Many of the earlier stories have never been reprinted. Some of the chapbooks also contained poetry that has seen very limited publication or none whatsoever. (One chapbook, about our first magical visit to the Tuscon area, was all poetry with a couple of transcribed fiddle tunes that I wrote.) We're also including a few other items, such as a pair of short stories commissioned by our local community newspaper, one of which was a collaboration with MaryAnn. And to top it off, MaryAnn has agreed to provide a full-colour painting for the cover, along with several b&w interior illustrations.

"Leaves for Mary Ann"	1974
"The Three that Came"	Triskell Press, 1977
"My Ainsel'"	The Storyteller #6 -7 '79
"Grymalkin"	Triskell Press, 1978
"The Oak King's Daughter"	Triskell Press, 1979
"The Moon Is a Meadow"	Triskell Press, 1980
"Humphrey's Christmas" by Charles de Lint & Mary Ann Harris	OSCAR v10 #4 '81
"A Pattern of Silver Strings"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"Root of Horn"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"Meran's Stone"	OSCAR v9 #10 '81
"Withered Trickster"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"The Piper"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"Secret Stones, Hollow Hills"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"Days of Fading"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"They Will Come Again"	A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
"Glass Eyes and Cotton Strings"	Triskell Press, 1982
"In Mask and Motley"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Blood to Blood"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Telynros"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Alken's Way"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"The Mysteries"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Root Truths"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Four Seasons and the First Day of the Year"	In Mask and Motley, Triskell Press, 1983
"Laughter in the Leaves"	Laughter in the Leaves, Triskell Press, 1984
"An Fear Glas"	Laughter in the Leaves, Triskell Press, 1984
"The Calendar of the Trees"	Triskell Press, 1984
"The Three Plushketeers Meet Santy Claus"	OSCAR v13 #4 '85
"The Badger in the Bag"	Badger in the Bag, Triskell Press, 1985
"The Old Tunes"	Badger in the Bag, Triskell Press, 1985
"The Three Plushketeers and the Garden Slugs"	Triskell Press, 1985
"And the Rafters Were Ringing"	Triskell Press, 1986
"The Lark in the Morning"	The Lark in the Morning, Triskell Press, 1987
"Bones"	The Lark in the Morning, Triskell Press, 1987
"The Drowned Man's Reel"	Triskell Press, 1988
"The Stone Drum" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1989
"Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1990
"Desert Moments Introduction"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Tapu'at House"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Sacred Land"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Apollo, Arizona and Oliver Twist"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"The Fairy House"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"The Faury House Jig"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Mission San Xavier Del Bac"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Flatbread and Chili"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Bajada"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Tucson"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Mount Lemmon"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Saguaro Dream"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"Coyote"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"At the Border"	Desert Moments, Triskell Press, 1991
"The Bone Woman" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1992
"Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery" [Newford]	Cheap Street: New Castle, VA, 1992
"Coyote Stories" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1993
"Heartfires" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1994
"Crow Girls" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1995
"My Life as a Bird" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1996
"The Fields Beyond the Fields" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1997
"Second Chances"	Triskell Press, 1998
"The Buffalo Man"	Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999
"Pixel Pixies"	Triskell Press, 1999

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