• "Introduction" (original essay by author)
• "Pattern" (original)
• "Placet is a Crazy Place" (Astounding 1946)
• "Answer" (original)
• "Etaoin Shrdlu" (Unknown 1942)
• "Preposterous" (original)
• "Armageddon" Unknown 1941)
• "Politeness" (original)
• "The Waveries" (Astounding 1945)
• "Reconciliation" (original)
• "The Hat Trick" (Unknown 1943)
• "Search" (original)
• "Letter to a Phoenix" (Astounding 1949)
• "Daisies" (original)
• "The Angelic Angleworm" (Unknown 1943)
• "Sentence" (original)
• "The Yehudi Principle" (Astounding 1944)
• "Solipsist" (original)

The original stories are generally very short vignettes.^[2]

Anthony Boucher found the collection "contains a little of everything, from screwball fantasy to sober science fiction" and praised Brown's "sparkling originality and delightfully crisp writing."^[3] P. Schuyler Miller found the stories to be "good fun", though not so impressive as Brown's novel-length work.^[4] Groff Conklin called the book "perfectly delightful", with eight of Brown's "very best stories".^[5]