A harsh greeting / Darrell Gray -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Stonewall Jackson's Waterloo / Albert Murray -- Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether -- A friend for a season / Deloris Harrison -- The screamers / Leroi Jones (Imamu Baraka) -- The new mirror / Ann Petry -- Tell Martha not to moan / S.A. Williams -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- Poppa's story / R.J. Meaddough -- Three men / Ernest Gaines -- Bright an' mownin' star / Mike Thelwell -- Mother dear and daddy / Junius Edwards -- Black for dinner / Cyrus Colter -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- The funeral / Ann Allen Shockley -- The gold fish monster / Pearl Crayton.