Table of Contents
Foreword -- Introduction by John Edgar Wideman -- Complicities / Alice Adams -- Fires / Rick Bass -- Driving the heart / Jason Brown -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler -- The eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Fitting ends / Dan Chaon -- The silver screen / Peter Ho Davies -- Ysrael / Junot Diaz -- Sleep / Stephen Dixon -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- The incredible appearing man / Deborah Galyan -- Intertextuality / Mary Gordon -- Past my future / David Huddle -- Bright winter / Anna Keesey -- In Roseau / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shades / William Henry Lewis -- A stand of fables / William Lychack -- Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates -- Sculpture I / Angela Patrinos -- Some say the world / Susan Perabo -- The trip to Halawa Valley / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma -- All shall love me and despair / Jean Thompson -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon -- Contributors' notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 1995 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian Magazines publishing short stories.