Foreword -- A certain beginning / Kim Chi-wŏn -- Chicapoo juice / Ekoneskaka -- American horse / Louise Erdrich -- What can you do with a fish? / K.C. Frederick -- Monkey business / Joseph Geha -- Asylum / Gayl Jones -- Mariah / Jamaica Kincaid -- Inside the fire / Salvatore La Puma -- The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee -- A moving day / Susan Nunes -- Enero / Mary Helen Ponce -- Journey of love / Nahid Rachlin -- The holy cheese / Jim Sagel -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Tears of autumn / Yoshiko Uchida.