The eldest child / Maeve Brennan -- Play like I'm sheriff / Jack Cady -- Murphy's Xmas / Mark Costello -- Walking wounded / John Bart Gerald -- The foreigner in the blood / Mary Gray Hughes -- The boy in the green hat / Norma Klein -- Happiness / Mary Lavin -- The boat / Alistair MacLeod -- The day the flowers came / David Madden -- Pictures of Fidelman / Bernard Malamud -- Porkchops with whiskey and ice cream / Matthew W. McGregor -- Gold coast / James Alan McPherson -- The inheritance of Emmy One Horse / John R. Milton -- By the river / Joyce Carol Oates -- The visitation / Nancy Pelletier Pansing -- Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams / Sylvia Plath -- Paper poppy / Miriam Rugel -- The tea bowl of Ninsei Nomura / Margaret Shipley -- The colony / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Benjamen burning / Joyce Madelon Winslow.