The tales, the presses, publishers and the magazines that published them:
Waifs and Strays was nominated for a 2002 World Fantasy Award.
| "Tamson House, Ottawa, Ontario" [from Chapter Three: Mystical Buildings and Other Structures; Moonheart] | Mysterious North America, ed. Christy Riddell, East Street Press, 1989 |
| "Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood" [Moonheart] | Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990 |
| "Ottawa and the Valley" | |
| "There's No Such Thing" | Vampires, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperCollins, 1991 |
| "Sisters" | original to this collection |
| "Fairy Dust" | A Wizard's Dozen, ed. Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace, 1993 |
| "A Wish Named Arnold" | Spaceships & Spells, ed. Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Harper & Row, 1987 |
| "Wooden Bones" | Things That Go Bump in the Night, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1989 |
| "Otherworlds: Past and Future" | |
| "The Graceless Child" | Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows and Weefolk, ed. Baird Searles & Brian Thomsen, Warner, 1991 |
| "A Tattoo on Her Heart" | Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 8, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990 |
| "Bordertown" | |
| "Stick" [Borderland] | Borderland, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold, Signet, 1986 |
| "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" [Borderland] | The Essential Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Delia Sherman, Tor, 1998 |
| "Newford: In and Out of the City" | |
| "One Chance" | Werewolves, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1988 |
| "Alone" | |
| "But for the Grace Go I" [Newford] | Chilled To the Bone, ed. Robert T. Garcia, Mayfair Games, 1991 |
| "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" [Newford] | Triskell Press, 1990 |
| "Waifs and Strays" [Newford] | Journeys to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1993 |
| "Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box" | The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002 |
