Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; A Foreword to my Readers: Past, Present, and Future; The Spinners; Taking Shelter; Playing Knucklebones; The Girls' Room; The Jackals; Exile; Other People's Blood; Indelible Virginia; The Woman in the River; The Wait; A Living Soul; Beyond Reproach; A Drowning; A Recurring Pattern; Heart of Ice; The Perfume of Ylang-Ylang; Sapping; The Woman in the Alley; The Ultimate; The Spinners (What Came Next).