Table of Contents: BLUE YONDERS, GRATEFUL PIES AND OTHER FANCIFUL FEASTS by Ken Scholes

In August, Fairwood Press will release Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies and Other Fanciful Feasts by Ken Scholes, with an introduction by Mary Robinette Kowal. It’s available for preorder now!

Here’s the synopsis (via Fairwood Press):

Return to Ken Scholes’ Imagination Forest in this third collection of quirky, off-beat stories. In these 17 tales, Scholes displays a deft ability at smart storytelling and savvy, poetic prose. Here in the Imagination Forest, you never know who — or what — you’ll come across.

Here’s the table of contents (a larger cover follows):

1. All Our Tangled Dreams In Disarray
2. The Starship Mechanic (with Jay Lake)
3. A Chance of Cats and Dogs
4. Annual Dues
5. Jay Lake and the Last Temple of the Monkey King
6. Time Dancing in the Key of E Minor
7. Fish and Bird, Current and Falls (with Liz Coleman)
8. If Dragon’s Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear
9. Cowardly Lion’s Slipper Wish
10. On the Freedom of Agency and the Finding of Lost Hearts
11. Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder (with Jay Lake)
12. Awash in Autumn, the Queen Reflects
13. Verity Saves the World
14. A World Done in By Great Granny’s Grateful Pie
15. A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves
16. Amal’s Lament
17. Of Golden Birds and Caged Dreams