Everything's Eventual

Contents

What I did was take all the spades out of a deck of cards plus a joker. Ace to King = 1–13. Joker = 14. I shuffled the cards and dealt them. The order in which they came out of the deck became the order of the stories, based on their position in the list my publisher sent me. And it actually created a very nice balance between the literary stories and the all-out screamers. I also added an explanatory note before or after each story, depending on which seemed the more fitting position. Next collection: selected by Tarot.

Introduction: Practicing the (Almost) Lost Art 11

Autopsy Room Four 19

The Man in the Black Suit 45

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away 71

The Death of Jack Hamilton 87

In the Deathroom 119

The Little Sisters of Eluria 145

Everything's Eventual 211

L.T.'s Theory of Pets 265

The Road Virus Heads North 287

Lunch at the Gotham Café 313

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French 347

1408 365

Riding the Bullet 405

Luckey Quarter 447