Introduction

ANIMALS
"The Chicken," Linda Elegant
"Rascal," Yale Huffman
"The Yellow Butterfly," Simonette Jackson
"Python," Judith Beth Cohen
"Pooh," Patricia Lambert
"New York Stray," Edith S. Marks
"Pork Chop," Eric Wynn
"B," Suzanne Stroh
"Two Loves," Will Coffey
"Rabbit Story," Barry Foy
"Carolina," Kelly O'Neill
"Andy and the Snake," Ron Fabian
"Blue Skies," Corki Stewart
"Exposure," Michael Oppenheimer
"Vertigo," Janet Schmidt Zupan

OBJECTS
"Star and Chain," Steve Lacheen
"Radio Gypsy," Bill Calm
"A Bicycle Story," Edith Riemer
"Grandmother's China," Kristine Lundquist
"The Bass," Mark Snyder
"Mother's Watch," Raymond Barry
"Case Closed," Jerry Hoke
"The Photo," Beverly Peterson
"MS. Found in an Attic," Marcus Rosenbaum
"Tempo Primo," Lauren Shapiro
"A Lesson Not Learned," Carol Sherman-Jones
"A Family Christmas," Don Graves
"My Rocking Chair," Dick Bain
"The Unicycle," Gordon Lee Stelter
"Moccasins," Fr. Keith Clark
"The Striped Pen," Robert M. Rock
"The Doll," Robert McGee
"The Videotape," Marie Johnson
"The Purse," Barbara Hudin
"A Gift of Gold," John Keith

FAMILIES
"Rainout," Stan Benkoski
"Isolation," Lucy Hayden
"Connections," Miriam Rosenzweig
"The Wednesday Before Christmas," Jack Fear
"How My Father Lost His Job," Fred Muratori
"Danny Kowalski," Charlie Peters
"Revenge" Eric Brotman
"Chris," Edwina Portelle Romero
"Put Your Little Foot," Anna Thorson
"Aunt Myrtle," Laura Braughton Waters
"American Odyssey," Jane Adams
"A Plate of Peas," Rick Beyer
"Wash Guilt," Heather Atwood
"Double Sadness," Martha Russell Hsu
"A Picture of Life," Jeanine Mankins
"Margie," Christine Kravetz
"One Thousand Dollars," I.Z.
"Taking Leave," Joe Miceli
"Act of Memory," Mary Grace Dembeck

SLAPSTICK
"Bi-Coastal," Beth Kivel
"A Felt Fedora," Joan Wilkins Stone
"Man vs. Coat," Mel Singer
"That's Entertainment," Nancy Wilson
"Riding With Andy," Jim Furlong
"Sophisticated Lady," Joan Vanden Heuvel
"My First Day in Priest Clothes," Eugene O'Brien
"Jewish Cowboy," Jennifer Pye
"How to Win Friends and Influence People," Jerry Yellin
"Your Father Has the Hay Fever," Tony Powell
"Lee Ann and Holly Ann," Holly A. Heffelbower
"Why I am Anti-Fur," Freddie Levin
"Airport Story," Randy Welch
"Tears and Flapdoodle," Alice Owens-Johnson
"The Club Car," John Flannelly
"Bronx Cheer," Joe Rizzo
"One Day in Higley," Carl Brooksby

STRANGERS
"Dancing on Seventy-fourth Street," Catherine Austin Alexander
"A Conversation with Bill," John Brawley
"Greyhounding," Beth Twiggar Goff
"A Little Story About New York," Dana T. Payne
"My Mistake," Ludlow Perry
"No Forwarding Address," Josh Dorman
"The New Girl," Marc Mitchell
"The Iceman of Market Street," R.C. Van Kooy
"Me and the Babe," Saul Isler
"Lives of the Poets," Clayton Eshleman
"Land of the Lost," Erica Hagen
"Rainbow," Katie Letcher Lyle
"Rescued by God," Mary Ann Garrett
"My Story," Rachel Watson
"Small World," Paul K. Humiston
"Christmas Morning, 1949," Sylvia Seymour Akin
"Brooklyn Roberts," Adolph Lopez
"[...] Per Night, Double Occupancy," Bruce Edward Hall 0
"A Shot in the Light," Lion Goodman
"Snow," Juliana C. Nash

WAR
"The Fastest Man in the Union Army," Michael Kuretich
"Christmas 1862," Grace Sale Wilson
"Mount Grappa," Mary Parsons Burkett
"Savenay," Harold Tapper
"Fifty Years Later," Gisela Cloos Evitt
"He Was the Same Age as My Sister," Mieke C. Malandra
"Betting on Uncle Louie," Jeanne W. Halpern
"The Ten-Goal Player," Paul Ebeltoft
"The Last Hand," Bill Helmantoler
"August 1945," Robert C. North and Dorothy North
"One Autumn Afternoon," Willa Parks Ward
"I Thought My Father Was God," Robert Winnie
"The Celebration," Reginald Thayer
"Christmas 1945," Lloyd Hustvedt
"A Trunk Full of Memories," Morton N. Cohen
"A Walk in the Sun," Donald Zucker
"A Shot in the Dark," David Ayres
"Confessions of a Mouseketeer," Doreen Tracey
"Forever," Maria Barcelona
"Utah, 1975," Steve Hale

LOVE
"What if?," Theodore Lustig
"The Mysteries of Tortellini," Kristina Streeter
"An Involuntary Assistant," C.W. Schmitt
"The Plot," Bev Ford
"Mathematical Aphrodisiac," Alex Galt
"Table for Two," Lori Peikoff
"Suzy's Choosy," Suzanne Druehl
"Top Button," Earl Roberts
"Lace Gloves," Karen Cycon Dermody
"Susan's Greetings," Susan Sprague
"Edith," Bill Froke
"Souls Fly Away," Laura McHugh
"Awaiting Delivery," John Wiley
"The Day Paul and I Flew the Kite," Ann Davis
"A Lesson in Love," Alvin Rosser
"Ballerina," Nicolas Wieder
"The Fortune Cookie," Sharli Land-Polanco

DEATH
"Ashes," Sara Wilson
"Harrisburg," Randee Rosenfeld
"Something to Think About," P. Rohmann
"Good Night," Ellise Rossen
"Charlie the Tree Killer," Frank Young
"Dead Man's Bluff," Joel Einschlag
"My Best Friend," Olga Hardman
"I Didn't Know," Linda Marine
"Cardiac Arrests," Sherwin Waldman
"Grandmother's Funeral," Martha Duncan
"High Street," Judith Englander
"A Failed Execution," David Anderson
"The Ghost," G.A. Gonzalez
"Heart Surgery," Dr. G.
"The Crying Place," Tim Gibson
"Lee," Jodi Walters
"South Dakota," Nancy Peavy
"Connecting with Phil," Tom Sellew
"The Letter," Brian F. McGee
"Dress Rehearsal," Ellen Powell
"The Anonymous Deciding Factor," Hollie Caldwell Campanella

DREAMS
"4:05 A.M.," Matthew Menary
"In the Middle of the Night," Steve Harper
"Blood," James Sharpsteen
"The Interpretation of Dreams," V. Ferguson-Stewart
"Half-Ball," Jack Edmonston
"Friday Night," Steve Hodgman
"Farrell," Stew Schneider
"Jill," Kara Husson
"D-Day," Richard R. Rosman
"The Wall," Vicky Johnson
"Heaven," Grace Fichtelberg
"My Father's Dream," Mary McCallum
"Parallel Lives," Timothy Ackerman
"Anna May," Jeff Raper
"Long Time Gone," Lynn Duvall

MEDITATIONS
"Sewing Lessons," Donna M. Bronner
"Sunday Drive," Bob Ayers
"Mayonnaise Sandwiches," Thomas Corrado
"Seaside," Tanya Collins
"After a Long Winter," Eileen O'Hara
"Martini With a Twist," Dede Ryan
"Nowhere," John Howze
"Where in the World is Era Rose Rodosta?," Carolyn Brasher
"Peter," Mark Gover
"At Sixes and Sevens," Sandra Waller
"Reflections on a Hubcap," Roger Brinkerhoff
"Homeless in Prescott, Arizona," B.C.
"Being There," Tim Clancy
"An Average Sadness," Ameni Rozsa