for Jane Yolen who showed me how to touch magic and pass it on
The Ivory and the Horn
FATHER, O FATHER, WHAT DO WE HERE
IN THIS LAND OF UNBELIEF AND FEAR
THE LAND OF DREAMS IS BETTER FAR,
ABOVE THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR.
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER, BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS.
Grateful acknowledgments
are made to:
Happy Rhodes for the use of the lines from "Words Weren't Made for Cowards" from her album Warpaint. Copyright © 1991 by Happy Rhodes; lyrics reprinted by permission. For more information about Rhodes's music, contact Aural Gratification, P.O. Box 86458, Academy Station, Albany, NY 12208.
Kiya Heartwood for the use of a verse of "Wishing Well" from her album True Frontiers. Copyright © 1993 by Kiya Heartwood; lyrics reprinted by permission. For more information about Heartwood's music, contact Pame Kingfisher at Roaddog Booking & Management, (800) 382-5895.
Copyright Acknowledgments
"Waifs and Strays" first appeared in Journeys to the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling; DAW Books, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Charles de Lint.
"Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery" was first published by Cheap Street, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Charles de Lint.
"The Forest Is Crying" first appeared in The Earth Strikes Back, edited by Richard Chizmar; Mark Zeising Books, 1994, Copyright © 1994 by Charles de Lint.
"The Wishing Well" was first published by Axolotl Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Charles de Lint.
"Dead Man's Shoes" first appeared in Touch Wood: Narrow Houses, Volume Two, edited by Peter Crowther, Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Charles de Lint.