PREFACE: LIKE A VASE OR A DANCE OR A PAINTING by Ellen Douglas (vii)
Mary Helen Stefaniak, A NOTE TO BIOGRAPHERS REGARDING FAMOUS AUTHOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR From The Iowa Review (I)
Thomas H. McNeely, SHEEP From The Atlantic Monthly (16)
D. Winston Brown, IN THE DOORWAY OF RHEE'S JAZZ JOINT From Yemassee (41)
Tim Gautreaux, DANCING WITH THE ONE-ARMED GAL From Zoetrope (56)
S. Manette Ansay, BOX From The Nebraska Review (78)
Chris Offutt, THE BEST FRIEND From Shenandoah (87)
Robert Olen Butler, HEAVY METAL From Louisiana Literature (91)
William Gay, MY HAND IS JUST FINE WHERE IT IS From the Oxford America (99)
Wendy Brenner, MR. PUNIVERSE From The Oxford American (112)
Karen Sagstetter, THE THING WITH WILLIE From Glimmer Train (125)
Melanie Sumner, GOOD-HEARTED WOMAN From DoubleTake (137)
Romulus Linney, THE WIDOW From The Missouri Review (174)
Allan Gurganus, HE'S AT THE OFFICE From The New Yorker (185)
John Holman, WAVE From Image (203)
Clyde Edgerton, DEBRA'S FLAP AND SNAP From Image (215)
Cathy Day, THE CIRCUS HOUSE From Story (228)
Tony Earley, JUST MARRIED From Esquire (243)
Christopher Miner, RHONDA AND HER CHILDREN From Confrontation (247)
R.H.W. Dillard, FORGETTING THE END OF THE WORLD From The Virginia Quarterly Review (253)
Margo Rabb, HOW TO TELL A STORY From Zoetrope (261)
APPENDIX (281)
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