Playground of Lost Toys

A dynamic collection of stories that explore the mystery, awe and dread that we may have felt as children when encountering a special toy. But it goes further, to the edges of space, where games are for keeps and where the mind plays its own games. We enter a world where the magic may not have been lost, where a toy plays for keeps or computers and gods vie for the upper hand. Dolls, stuffed animals, wooden games of skill, ancient artifacts misinterpreted, and items that seek a life or even revenge; these lost toys and games bring tales of companionship, loss, revenge, hope, murder, cunning, and love, to be unearthed in the sandbox.

Colleen Anderson has published fiction and poetry in over 200 publications with recent work in Cemetery Dance, Deep Cuts, Imaginarium, and the Exile Book of New Canadian Noir. She is an Aurora Award finalist and co-edited Tesseracts 17. Ursula Pflug is the award winning author of the novels Green Music, The Alphabet Stones, and Motion Sickness, as well as the story collections After the Fires and Harvesting the Moon. She edited the anthology They Have To Take You In.