Chambers of the Heart

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

1. Chambers of the Heart – a heart that’s a building

2. Building on Sand – your own child or the child that needs you now?

3. Blush – going bare when everyone else wears a mask

4. Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon – magic, music, and buffalo

5. Fetch – she may be a simulation, but out on the edge, she’s one man’s best friend

6. The Humblebract Expedition – a play date for a dying child

7. When Dooryards First in the Lilac Bloomed – a doorway to opportunity and change, if only they can understand it

8. Some Sun and Delilah – a sunny island, an abandoned temple, and … truth?

9. Crying in the Salt House – the house is built from tears, or so they say

10. Full of Stars – jar half empty, jar half full

11. Memory and Faded Ink – the aliens are perfectly human and just as flawed

12. Fountainhead – arranged pairings never work

13. Adaptations to Coastal Erosion – what do you do when your spouse just sinks away, literally?

14. Outburst – Earth is dead, and the one remaining orbital can’t be saved, can it?

15. The Irrigation Ditch – they came to hide, but didn’t realize it was from each other

16. Dragons I Have Slain – take hope where you find it

17. About the author