Introduction / Carol Serling -- Curve / Loren D. Estleman -- Reversal of fortune / Robert J. Serling -- By the book / Nancy Holder -- Earthfall / John Farris -- Dead post bumper / Dean Wesley Smith -- Thoughtful breaths / Peter Crowther -- Obsession / David Black -- Sales of a deathman / David Gerrold -- The writing on the washroom wall / Jane Lindskold -- Stanley's Statistics / Jean Rabe -- The mystery of history / Lee Lawless -- I believe I'll have another / Loren L. Coleman -- The ides of Texas / Douglas Brode -- The bloodthirstiness of great beauty / M. Tara Crowl -- Eye for an eye / Susan Slater -- The couch / Peter Farris -- Where no man pursueth / Norman Spinrad -- The last Christmas letter / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- An odyssey, or whatever you call it, concerning baseball / Rod Serling.