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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1941 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., November 1941, xix+330pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]
23rd O. Henry collection. Covers the period July 1940 to June 1941.

vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

3 · Defeat · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker May 17 1941; first prize; war story.

17 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941; second prize; elderly Southern black woman’s life.

31 · Eighteenth Summer · Hallie Southgate Abbett · ss Story #88, March/April 1941; third prize; that crazy younger generation.

49 · The Visit · Andy Logan · ss Swarthmore Dodo 1940; best first-published story; vet returned from China has trouble back in USA.

61 · Hello, Tib · Conrad Aiken · ss Mademoiselle 1941; incident with a cat provokes regrets.

71 · A Bottle of Milk for Mother · Nelson Algren · ss The Southern Review Spring 1941, as “Biceps”; gangs in Chicago.

93 · Retreat · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker October 19 1940; events at a sanitarium.

105 · I’m Going to Asia · John Cheever · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2741, September 1 1940; around the family hearth as war looms.

113 · Hook · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · nv The Atlantic Monthly August 1940; life from the POV of a hawk.

139 · Seven Boys Take a Hill · David Cornel De Jong · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review 1941; youthful doings of boys on holiday.

155 · The Old People [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine September 1940; doin’s in Yoknapatawpha.

173 · The Snow Goose · Paul Gallico · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 9 1940

197 · Those Are As Brothers · Nancy Hale · ss Mademoiselle May 1941; about a Jewish refugee in Connecticut.

213 · I’d Give It All Up for Tahiti · Paul Kunasz · ss Story #85, September/October 1940; reveries of a bomber pilot.

223 · Afternoon in the Jungle · Albert Maltz · ss The New Yorker January 11 1941; a New York kid has war fantasies.

235 · Caput Mortuum · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941; daughter recalls weird parents.

247 · My Friend Flicka [Ken McLaughlin & Flicka] · Mary O’Hara · nv Story #87, January/February 1941; basis for famous film.

273 · The Conqueror · Vincent Sheean · ss Redbook Magazine June 1941; war story.

289 · The Proud Walkers · James Still · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 10 1941; some Southern regionalism.

307 · My Pigeon Pair · Dorothy Thomas · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1941; working girl struggles.

323 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1942 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., November 1942, xvii+356pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]
Covers the period July 1941 to June 1942.

vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

3 · The Wide Net · Eudora Welty · nv Harper’s Magazine May 1942; first prize.

33 · Two Rivers · Wallace Stegner · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1942; second prize.

51 · Windwagon Smith · Wilbur L. Schramm · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1941; third prize.

75 · A Long Way to Go · Jeanne E. Wylie · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1941; best first-published story.

91 · Their Name Is Macaroni · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 3 1942

105 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941

117 · An Interval Like This · Robert Gorham Davis · ss The New Yorker April 25 1942

127 · Snow-on-the-Mountain · David Cornel De Jong · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1942

139 · Two Soldiers · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 28 1942

161 · The Dear Little Doves · Eleanor Green · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1941

171 · Sunday—1913 · Nancy Hale · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2753, July 1941

195 · The Coming of Age · Clare Jaynes · ss Story #93, January/February 1942

207 · Alexander to the Park · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1942

219 · The Workmanship Has to Be Wasted · Alexander Laing · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1942

231 · The Jockey · Carson McCullers · ss The New Yorker August 23 1941

241 · Yankee Odyssey · John Rogers Shuman · ss The Southern Review Summer 1941

259 · How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941

275 · The Yodeler · Alison Stuart · nv Harper’s Bazaar

301 · Feathers · Richard Sullivan · ss Mademoiselle 1942

315 · Basket Carry · Jerome Weidman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941

333 · Hunger · Marjorie Worthington · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941

349 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943, xxv+319pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Covers the period July 1942 to June 1943.

ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

3 · Livvie Is Back · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1942; first prize.

19 · The Knot Hole · Dorothy Canfield · nv The Yale Review Spring 1943; second prize.

43 · The Fishermen of Patzcuaro · William Fifield · ss Story #99, January/February 1943; third prize.

63 · The Little Black Boys · Clara Laidlaw · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1942; best first-published story.

79 · The Canals of Mars · Kay Boyle · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1943

91 · Pigeons en Casserole · Bessie Breuer · ss The New Yorker June 20 1942

107 · The Enemy · Pearl Buck · nv Harper’s Magazine November 1942

129 · The Ascent of Ariel Goodbody · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1943

143 · The Unfaithful · Whitfield Cook · ss The American Mercury September 1942

155 · Standby · Sarah Grinnell · ss Harper’s Bazaar

167 · Black Boy’s Good Time · Elmer Grossberg · ss Esquire November 1942

181 · Who Lived and Died Believing · Nancy Hale · nv Harper’s Bazaar September 1942

203 · The Glass Pigeon · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1943

215 · Blinker Was a Good Dog · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1943

223 · A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud · Carson McCullers · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1942

235 · Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1942

245 · White for the Living · Margarita G. Smith · ss Mademoiselle 1943

253 · “She Shall Have Music” · Austin Strong · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1942

265 · Death and My Uncle Felix · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle October 1942

277 · The Cane in the Corridor · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker January 2 1943

285 · The Old She ’Gator · Peggy Von Der Goltz · ss Story #99, January/February 1943

295 · Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote · William C. White · ss Story #96, July/August 1942

313 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1944 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., October 1944, xix+268pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]
Covers the period July 1943 to June 1944.

ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · Walking Wounded · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker May 13 1944; first prize.

19 · Home Is a Place · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1943; second prize.

29 · The Stagecoach · Griffith Beems · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1944; third prize.

42 · Health Card · Frank G. Yerby · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1944; best first-published story.

52 · The Buck in the Hills · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss Rocky Mountain Review Spring/Summer 1943

63 · Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart · Elizabeth Eastman · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943

83 · Soldier of the Republic · Morton Fineman · ss Harper’s Bazaar

91 · Strike up a Stirring Music · Berry Fleming · ss The Yale Review Summer 1943

100 · That’s My Brother · Marjorie Hope · ss Mademoiselle 1944

109 · Night Flight · Josephine W. Johnson · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1944

116 · What a Darling Little Boy! · Ruth Adams Knight · ss The American Mercury October 1943

124 · The Fur Coat · George Loveridge · ss The American Mercury February 1944

135 · Maine · Margaret Osborn · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1944

151 · Lions, Harts, Leaping Does · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Autumn 1943

176 · Quitter · Marianne Roane · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1944

183 · All Souls’ · Gladys Schmitt · ss Collier’s November 6 1943

197 · Blockbuster · Mark Schorer · ss Mademoiselle 1944

205 · Sunday Liberty · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle 1944

214 · Raziya · Christine Weston · ss Tomorrow February 1944

225 · The Pleasures of Travel · Wendell Wilcox · ss The New Yorker November 13 1943

234 · Old James · Marguerite Young · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1944

251 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bg ; despite the title this contains biographical sketches of the authors.

263 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1945 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., September 1945, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

· The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945; first prize.

· Gunners’ Passage · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944; second prize.

· Old Bill Bent to Drink · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1945; third prize.

· Bury Your Own Dead · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1945

· Flesh and Blood · Laurence Critchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945

· Long Shadow on the Lawn · Mary Deasy · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1945

· Burial in the Desert · Edward Fenton · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1944

· Understand What I Mean? · Bill Gerry · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1944

· War Front: Louisiana · Ethel Edison Gordon · ss Harper’s Bazaar

· The People on the Roller Coaster · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review

· The New Kid · Murray Heyert · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1944

· Monday at Six · Catherine Hubbell · ss Charm 1945

· The Sand Castle · Mary Lavin · ss The Yale Review Summer 1944

· The Thousand-Yard Stare · Hansford Martin · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1944

· A Piece of Bread · Frances Gray Patton · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1944

· Call a Solemn Assembly · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944

· The Trouble · J. F. Powers · ss Commonweal November 10 1944

· The Conqueror · Allan Seager · ss Story #111, January/February 1945

· Subway System · Katharine Shattuck · ss Rocky Mountain Review

· The Hour of Knowing · Louise Reinhardt Smith · ss Story #111, January/February 1945

· Lead Her Like a Pigeon · Jessamyn West · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1944

· Come Away Home · Michael Wilson · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1946 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., August 1946, xxi+318pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · Bird Song · John Mayo Goss · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946; first prize.

18 · The Innocent Bystander · Margaret Shedd · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1946; second prize.

31 · Sometimes You Break Even · Victor Ullman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946; third prize.

48 · Waves of Darkness · Cord Meyer, Jr. · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1946; best first-published story.

65 · The Imaginary Jew · John Berryman · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1945

74 · Winter Night · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 19 1946

85 · Request for Sherwood Anderson · Frank Brookhouser · ss The Yale Review 1945

91 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Winter 1946

103 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945

115 · I Forgot Where I Was · Elizabeth Enright · ss Harper’s Bazaar

123 · What We Have Missed · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Harper’s Bazaar

133 · The Heroine · Patricia Highsmith · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1945

149 · Innocents · M. P. Hutchins · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1946

177 · Breathe Upon These Slain · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1945

195 · The Guide · Andrew Lytle · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1945

218 · Not Very Close · Dorothy McCleary · ss Harper’s Bazaar

226 · Black Secret · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · ss The New Yorker September 8 1945

233 · The Beggar Boy · David S. Savler · ss Story #113, May/June 1945

242 · Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker February 2 1946

259 · The Empty Sky · Benedict Thielen · ss The Yale Review

272 · A Sketching Trip · Eudora Welty · nv The Atlantic Monthly June 1945

294 · The Blackboard · Jessamyn West · ss Town & Country 1946

304 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

315 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories of 1947: The O. Henry Awards ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., September 1947, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

· The White Circle · John Bell Clayton · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1947; first prize.

· Rest Camp on Maui · Eugene L. Burdick · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1946; second prize.

· The Nightingales Sing · Elizabeth Parsons · ss The New Yorker May 11 1946; third prize.

· Little Victor · Robert Lewis · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1946; best first-published story.

· The Echo · Paul Bowles · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1947

· The Homecoming [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle October 1946

· The Skeleton and the Easter Lily · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1947

· The Hot Day · Jane Cobb · ss McCall’s September 1946

· The Holiday · Mary Deasy · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1946

· The Record · David Cornel De Jong · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review

· You Can Wreck It · Walter Elder · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1946

· An American Home · Helen Eustis · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1947

· Miss Winters and the Wind · Christine Noble Govan · ss Tomorrow May 1946

· The Rosebush · Susan Kuehn · ss Mademoiselle 1947

· The Burden · John A. Lynch · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947

· The Valiant Woman · J. F. Powers · ss Accent Spring 1947

· The Great Fire of 1945 · Margaret Shedd · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1946

· What We Don’t Know Hurts Us · Mark Schorer · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1946

· Fighter · John Caswell Smith, Jr. · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1946

· The Hope Chest · Jean Stafford · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1947

· Old Boy—New Boy · Benedict Thielen · ss Town & Country 1947

· The Whole World Knows · Eudora Welty · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1947

· Horace Chooney, M.D. · Jessamyn West · ss Mademoiselle February 1947

Prize Stories of 1948: The O. Henry Awards ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., September 1948, xx+292pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · Shut a Final Door · Truman Capote · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1947; first prize.

15 · Beyond the Glass Mountain · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947; second prize.

26 · Powerhouse · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm March 1948; third prize.

35 · Sparrow’s Last Jump · Elliott Grennard · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947; best first-published story.

49 · She Did Not Cry at All · Frank Brookhouser · ss The University of Kansas City Review

62 · The Muse and Mr. Parkinson · James B. Gidney · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1947

72 · The Petrified Woman · Caroline Gordon · ss Mademoiselle September 1947

85 · The Silent Day · Mary Frances Greene · ss Mademoiselle 1948

97 · Mr. Henig’s Wall · Lodwick Hartley · ss The University of Kansas City Review

108 · The Other Side of the River · Marianne Hauser · ss Mademoiselle April 1948

125 · The Wind Is Blind · James Wesley Ingles · ss The American Mercury April 1948

136 · Child of God · Elizabeth Janeway · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1947

148 · The Three Aspects · Christopher La Farge · ss ’48—The Magazine of the Year 1948

157 · Pico Never Forgets · Richard Malkin · ss Town & Country 1948

173 · The Professor and the Puli · Robert Morse · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1947

186 · Welcome Home · Elizabeth Parsons · ss The New Yorker April 17 1948

194 · The Answer · Katharine Shattuck · ss The Sewanee Review July/September 1947

208 · The Snow Girl · William R. Shelton · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947

221 · The Talking Stick · Viginia Sorenson · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review Winter 1947

236 · The Plan · Sidney Sulkin · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1947

250 · The Saddle · Courtenay Terrett · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1948

263 · The Gun on the Table · John Watson · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1947

274 · The Ascent · Ray B. West, Jr. · ss Epoch

283 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Prize Stories of 1949: The O. Henry Awards ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., October 1949, xxiv+323pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · A Courtship · William Faulkner · ss The Sewanee Review Autumn 1948; first prize.

17 · The Watchman · Mark Van Doren · ss The Yale Review Spring 1949; second prize.

30 · The White Hound · Ward Dorrance · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1948; third prize.

43 · High Diver · John Ashworth · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1948

58 · Pastor Dowe at Tacaté · Paul Bowles · nv Mademoiselle February 1949

79 · The Middle Drawer · Hortense Calisher · ss The New Yorker July 10 1948

89 · Bremen’s · Elizabeth Coatsworth · ss The Yale Review 1949

100 · I’ll Take You to Tennessee · Evan S. Connell, Jr. · ss Tomorrow February 1949

110 · Cayetano the Perfect · Barnaby Conrad · ss Collier’s October 23 1948

123 · The Boy Next Door · Alice Carver Cramer · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1948

135 · The Mulhausen Girls · Harris Downey · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1949

150 · The Trumpeter Swan · Elizabeth Enright · ss The Yale Review Winter 1948

162 · Evening and Morning Prayer · John Mayo Goss · ss The New Yorker August 7 1948

172 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

181 · Single Lady · Mary Lavin · ss Tomorrow May 1948

198 · The Season of Miss Maggie Reginald · Phoebe Pierce · ss Mademoiselle 1949

212 · The Best Bread · Bentz Plagemann · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1949

225 · You Can Get Just So Much Justice · John Andrew Rice · ss Collier’s October 30 1948

249 · Just Before the War with the Eskimos · J. D. Salinger · ss The New Yorker June 5 1948

262 · A Summer Day · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker September 11 1948

276 · Meeting Time · John D. Weaver · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1948

288 · Public Address System · Jessamyn West · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1948

306 · Six Months Is No Long Time · Leon Wilson · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1948

Prize Stories of 1950: The O. Henry Awards ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., September 1950, xviii+325pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · The Blue-Winged Teal · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1950; first prize.

18 · The Magnolias · Gudger Bart Leiper · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1949; second prize.

37 · Be Nice to Mr. Campbell · Robert Lowry · ss The American Mercury September 1949; third prize.

52 · The Captain Is Impaled · Nelson Algren · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1949

68 · Death Under the Hawthornes · Peggy Bennett · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1949

81 · New Shoes · John Berry · ss The Yale Review 1950

89 · Summer Evening · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker June 25 1949

102 · Vega · John Cheever · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1949

119 · Mrs. Ketting and Clark Gable · Ann Chidester · ss Flair March 1950

130 · The Sardillion · Elizabeth Enright · ss The Yale Review Spring 1950

138 · The Hardys · William Humphrey · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 1949

152 · The Lady · Donald Justice · ss The Western Review 1950

167 · The Hunt · Susan Kuehn · ss Mademoiselle 1950

181 · Comes a Day · Speed Lamkin · ss Mademoiselle September 1949

196 · Seventy Thousand Dollars · Edward Newhouse · ss The New Yorker August 6 1949

209 · Not a Soul Will Come Along · Elizabeth Parsons · ss The New Yorker April 22 1950

229 · The Wounded · Clay Putman · ss Tomorrow July 1949

233 · The Ruin of Soul · Leonard Wallace Robinson · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1950

244 · For Esmé—with Love and Squalor · J. D. Salinger · nv The New Yorker April 8 1950

265 · Death of a Prize Fighter · Robert Switzer · ss Esquire June 1949

273 · Their Losses · Peter Taylor · ss The New Yorker March 11 1950

287 · Give My Love to Maggie · Lilian Van Ness · ss Harper’s Bazaar

306 · Seasmiles · Anne Goodwin Winslow · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1950

Prize Stories of 1951: The O. Henry Awards ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., August 1951, xxvi+325pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]

vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in

1 · The Hunters · Harris Downey · ss Epoch Summer 1950; first prize.

17 · The Burning · Eudora Welty · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1951; second prize.

32 · The House of Flowers · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle April 1951; third prize.

46 · Sense of Direction · Leonard Casper · ss Southwest Review Summer 1950

61 · The Pot of Gold · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker October 14 1950

78 · I Came from Yonder Mountain · Evan S. Connell, Jr. · ss Flair June 1950

87 · Black Water Blues · Monty Culver · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1950

98 · A Name for the City · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1950

116 · In the Time of Demonstrations · James B. Hall · ss The Western Review 1951

130 · Peggety’s Parcel of Shortcomings · John Hersey · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1950

140 · A Sense of Destination · Faye Riter Kensinger · ss Epoch

154 · Old Century’s River · Oliver La Farge · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1950

170 · The Jersey Heifer · Peggy Harding Love · ss Mademoiselle October 1950

182 · The Invaders · Robie Macauley · ss Tomorrow December 1950

192 · The Sojourner · Carson McCullers · ss Mademoiselle May 1950

202 · Monte Saint Angelo · Arthur Miller · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1951

217 · The Butcherbirds · Esther Patt · ss The American Mercury November 1950

227 · Homecoming · Elizabeth Gregg Patterson · ss Charm 1951

246 · The Shadow of an Arm · Thomas Hal Phillips · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1950

256 · Cyclists’ Raid · Frank Rooney · nv Harper’s Magazine January 1951

275 · Slow Journey · Sylvia Shirley · ss The Pacific Spectator Summer 1950

289 · Who Too Was a Soldier · John Campbell Smith · ss The Yale Review 1951

299 · A Country Love Story · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker May 6 1950

312 · It’s a Nice Day—Sunday · R. E. Thompson · ss Tomorrow April 1951

323 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

Texas Roundup ed. Clara Jo Bridges & Herman F. Benthul--- see under Herman F. Benthul.

Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology ed. Emma Bridges & Djibril al-Ayad--- see under Djibril al-Ayad.

Te Korero Ahi Ka: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning ed. Grace Bridges, Lee Murray & Aaron Compton (SpecFicNZ, February 2018, 262pp, quarto, oa, cover by Evelyn Doyle)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · Forward · Juliet Marillier · fw

5 · Ahi Ka · Eileen Mueller & A. J. Ponder · vi; winning entry (first equal) in NZSA NorthWrite Collaboration Contest, 2013.

9 · On the Run · Kevin Berry · vi

13 · Moa Love · Aaron Compton · ss

23 · An Extract from the Diary of Peter Mackenzie · Daniel Stride · ss

29 · Friend · Grant Stone · ss Everything Is Fine by Grant Stone, Racket House, 2016

35 · Backchat · Mark English · ss

41 · The Lost · Gregory Dally · pm

43 · Gatekeeper, What Toll? · Mike Reeves-McMillan · ss Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores June 8 2016

51 · The Dragon’s Friend Inn · Serena Dawson · il

53 · The Big Bad Wolf · Kevin G. Maclean · vi

57 · Breach · Robinne Weiss · ss

75 · Mother’s Milk · Dan Rabarts · ss Regeneration ed. Anna Caro & Juliet Buchanan, Random Static Press, 2013

87 · The Eye of the Beholder · Kevin G. Maclean · ss Misspelled ed. Julie E. Czerneda, DAW, 2008

103 · Somnium · Gregory Dally · vi

107 · Dance, Tiny Particles, Dance · Sean Monaghan · ss

115 · Earthcore: Initiation [Earthcore] · Grace Bridges · ss Splashdown Books, November 14 2017

127 · Mid-Life · Matt Cowens · vi

131 · Her Grief in My Halls · Alan Baxter · ss

139 · The Music of the Spheres · Debbie Cowens · ss

153 · Diggers · Sally McLennan · ss

159 · To the Centre of the Earth · Robinne Weiss · ss; winner of the Au Contraire III Short Fiction Prize, 2016.

169 · Big Enough for Two · Piper Mejia · ss

179 · Why I Hate Cake · Paul Mannering · vi
previously available as an audio download from Pseudopod, November 11, 2007.

183 · The Mysterious Mr. Montague · Jane Percival · ss Bloodlines ed. Amanda Pillar, Ticonderoga Publications, 2015

201 · The Nineveh · Mouse Diver-Dudfield · vi

205 · What You Wish For · I. K. Paterson-Harkness · pm

209 · Dancing West to East · Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey · ss

223 · Selfie · Lee Murray · ss SQ Mag #26, May 2016

237 · Wearing the Star Cloak · Darian Smith · ss Wily Writers June 30 2012

245 · Te Hokinga Mai (The Return) · Marolyn Dudfield · il

247 · Magnetic North · I. K. Paterson-Harkness · pm

251 · The Iron Wahine · Matt Cowens · vi Flash Frontier April 2015

253 · About the Authors · Various · bg

Trouble on the Thames by Victor Bridges (Macdonald, 1945, 192pp, hc, n.)
Thriller novel.

Trouble on the Thames by Victor Bridges (The British Library, September 2015, 978-0-712-35603-9, £8.99, 288pp, tp, n.) [British Library Classic Thrillers; British Library Spy Classics]
Reprint (Macdonald 1945) thriller novel.

Doctor Who: Short Trips: Dalek Empire ed. Nicholas Briggs (Big Finish, December 2006, 1-84435-150-5, £14.99, 211pp, hc, oa, cover by Red Ink) [Doctor Who]
Anthology of original stories based on the TV series. Volume 19 in the series.

1 · Kalendorf [Doctor Who] · Nicholas Briggs · ss

13 · Natalie’s Diary: Part One [Doctor Who] · Joseph Lidster · sl

17 · Alby [Doctor Who] · Nicholas Briggs · ss

35 · Private Investigations [Doctor Who] · Ian Farrington · ss

47 · Natalie’s Diary: Part Two [Doctor Who] · Joseph Lidster · sl

53 · Suz [Doctor Who] · Sharon Gosling · ss

67 · The Best Joke I Ever Told [Doctor Who] · Simon Guerrier · ss

85 · Natalie’s Diary: Part Three [Doctor Who] · Joseph Lidster · sl

91 · Hide and Seek [Doctor Who] · Ian Farrington · ss

107 · The Eighth Wonder of the World [Doctor Who] · Simon Guerrier · ss

125 · Mutually Assured Survival [Doctor Who] · Simon Richards · ss

141 · Natalie’s Diary: Part Four [Doctor Who] · Joseph Lidster · sl

145 · Museum Piece [Doctor Who] · James Swallow · ss

161 · Return of the Daleks [Doctor Who] · Nicholas Briggs · pl

207 · Why Are Daleks Supreme [Doctor Who] · Nicholas Briggs · aw

210 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Six Fantasies by Harold Brighouse (Samuel French, 1931, $1.50, 155pp, hc, co)

· The Exiled Princess · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

· The Ghost in the Garden · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

· The Romany Road · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

· Cupid and Psyche · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

· The Oracles of Apollo · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

· The Ghosts of Windsor Park · Harold Brighouse · ss (r)

Fantasias by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (John Lane, 1897, 3/6d, 156pp, hc, co)

· The Star Worshipper · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

· The Elusive Melody · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

· The Mandrake Venus · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

· The Futile Quest · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

· The Kingdom of Dreams · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

· The Well of Truth · Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright · ss (r)

Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt ed. Matthew Bright (Twopenny Books, June 2017, 978-1-5272-0777-6, $21.00, 408pp, tp, oa, cover by Inkspiral Design)
Details taken from online listing.

· Editor’s Note · Matthew Bright · ed

· The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar [The Parasol Protectorate] · Gail Carriger · ss The Book of the Dead ed. Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013

· The Angel of Khan el-Khalili [Ministry of Alchemy] · P. Djeli Clark · ss

· Mock the Midnight Bell · Sarah Caulfield · ss

· Worthless Remains · Jonathan Green · ss

· The Lights of Dendera · Tiffany Trent · ss

· Ushabti · Zan Lee · ss

· Thermodynamics; and/or The Remittance Men · Chaz Brenchley · nv

· Lucky at Cards · David Barnett · ss

· Sun River [Everfair] · Nisi Shawl · ss

· The Sun Shall Lie Across Us Like Gold [Governess and We] · Benjanun Sriduangkaew · ss

· The Word of Menamhotep [Newbury & Hobbes] · George Mann · nv

· Silver Linings [Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences] · Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris · ss

· Antonia and Cleopatra · Matthew Bright · ss

· The Museum of Unlikely Occurrences · Rod Duncan · ss

· Jabari and the Giant · Christopher Parvin · ss

· To Kill a God · M. J. Lyons · ss

· The Infernal · Anne Jensen · ss

· Imhotep’s Dog · John Moralee · ss

· But for the Pieces He Left Behind · E. Catherine Tobler · ss

· The Copper Scarab · K. Tempest Bradford · ss

The Best American Erotica 1993 ed. Susan Bright (Collier Books, 1993, 0-02-079262-X, $12.00, 241pp, pb, an)

xi · Introduction · Susan Bright · in

1 · Rubenesque · Magenta Michaels · ss Herotica 2 ed. Susie Bright & Joan Blank, Plume, 1992

9 · The Tale of the Body Thief [Vampire Chronicles] · Anne Rice · ex Knopf, 1992

19 · Brian’s Bedroom · Leigh Rutledge · ss Flesh and the Word ed. John Preston, Plume, 1992
an earlier version appeared as “Cal’s Bedroom” in Honcho 1982.

32 · Serenade for Female with Fantasies · Ann Marie Mardith · nv Libido Winter 1993

55 · Why · Bob Flanagan · ss Taste of Latex #6, 1992

57 · Vox · Nicholson Baker · ex Random House, 1992

58 · Milk · Michael Dorsey · ss Penthouse Letters October 1992

75 · Five Dimes · Anita “Melissa” Mashman · ss Largesse v3, 1992

79 · In Griff’s in L.A. on a Rainy Sunday Afternoon in February · Carter Wilson · ss Lavender Reader Spring 1992

84 · Horny · Greg Boyd · ss Fiction International #22, 1992

91 · Me and the Boys · Trish Thomas · ss Frighten the Horses Winter 1992

105 · Two at Once · Robert Silverberg · ss Penthouse Letters June 1992

120 · Citre et Trans · Samuel R. Delany · ex Fiction International #22, 1992

134 · Ellen, from Chicago · Pat A. Williams · ss Herotica 2 ed. Susie Bright & Joan Blank, Plume, 1992

147 · Golden Boy · Carol A. Queen · ss Libido Summer 1992

158 · I Have Something for You · Blake C. Aarens · ss Aché February/March 1992

165 · Belonging · Pat Califia · nv Flesh and the Word ed. John Preston, Plume, 1992
an earlier version appeared in Advocate Men August 1986.

186 · Needless to Say · Lisa Palac · ss Screw December 21 1992, as “Stop ’n’ Schtup”

197 · The Flood · Ronald Sukenick · ss Fiction International #22, 1992

207 · Ninety-Three Million Miles Away · Barbara Gowdy · nv Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica ed. Michele Slung, HarperCollins, 1992

231 · Contributor Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 1994 ed. Susan Bright (Touchstone Books, November 2, 1994, 0-671-89942-2, $14.00, 272pp, tp, an)
Contents from www.susiebright.com

· Gorgeous · J. Maynard · ss (r)

· ’C’ is for Closet, Crevice and Colossus · Marianna Beck · ss (r)

· from The Same River Twice · Chris Offutt · ex Simon & Schuster, 1993

· Absolution · John Preston · ss (r)

· PG Diary · Linda Hooper · ss (r)

· Big Nouns, Unconjugated Verbs · Bart Plantenga · ss (r)

· Love Art · Debra Martens · ss (r)

· Better Safe · Michael Lowenthal · ss (r)

· Slow Dance on the Fault Line · Donald Rawley · ss (r)

· Cool, Clean and Crisp · Mark Butler · ss (r)

· Unsafe Sex · Pat Califia · ss Melting Point by Pat Califia, Alyson, 1993

· Elegy for Andy Gibb · Danielle Willis · ss (r)

· Finally a Coherent Explanation of Straight White Male Sexuality · Sigfried Gold · ss (r)

· InterCore · M. Christian · vi Future Sex #4, 1993

· Full Metal Corset · Anne Tourney · ss Future Sex #3, 1993

· Sweating in Merida · Carol Queen · ss (r)

· from Stone Butch Blues · Leslie Feinberg · ex Firebrand Books, 1993

· None of the Above · Bernadette Bosky · nv Worlds of Women ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1994

· The Waking State · Gerry Pearlberg · ss (r)

· A Tooth for Every Child · Abigail Thomas · ss (r)

The Best American Erotica 1995 ed. Susan Bright (Touchstone Books, October 1, 1995, 0-684-80163-9, $14.00, 256pp, tp, an)
Contents from www.susiebright.com

· Low-Cut · Lisa Palac · ss (r)

· Daddy · James Williams · ss (r)

· Indio · Al Lujan · ss (r)

· Dating for Dollars · Scarlett Fever · ss (r)

· Cheaper by the Pair · Paul Reed · ss (r)

· 30 · Raye Sharpe · ss (r)

· Boy Born W/Tattoo of Elvis · Robert Olen Butler · ss (r)

· Miranda Is Starving for Love · Anne Wallace · ss (r)

· Diana the Courier · Corwin Erickson · ss (r)

· In the Sacred & Profane Country of Flesh · Tsaurah Litzky · ss (r)

· Developer · Annie Regrets · ss (r)

· Absolution · Tom Caffrey · ss (r)

· Marian’s Ears · Susan St. Aubin · ss (r)

· For Love or Money · Mary Malmros · ss (r)

· Wide Open · Le Shaun · ss (r)

· PreDahmer · Trac Vu · ss (r)

· The Spirit That Denies · Jay Michaelson · nv The Beast Within ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1994

· Valentines’ Day in Jail · Susan Musgrave · ss (r)

· Cinnamon Roses · Renée M. Charles · nv Blood Kiss ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1994

· The Wager · Anna Nymus · ss (r)

· from The Fermata · Nicholson Baker · ex Chatto & Windus, 1994

The Best American Erotica 1996 ed. Susan Bright (Touchstone Books, October 8, 1996, 0-684-81830-2, $12.00, 256pp, tp, an)
Contents from www.susiebright.com

· The Letters · Eric Albert · ss (r)

· The Perfect Fit · Katya Andreevna · ss (r)

· The Trade · Lars Eighner · ss (r)

· Girls Who Wear Glasses · David Shields · ss (r)

· Pearl Diver · Cecilia Tan · ss On a Bed of Rice: Asian American Erotica ed. Geraldine Kudaka, Anchor, 1995

· from In the Cut · Susanna Moore · ex New American Library, 1996

· A Fish Story · Bob Zordani · ss (r)

· The Hit · Aaron Travis · ss (r)

· Light · Bonny Finberg · ss (r)

· State Troopers Than Meets the Eye · Estabrook · ss (r)

· The Portable Girlfriend · Doug Tierney · ss Selling Venus ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1995

· Progressive Lighting · Joel Dailey · ss (r)

· from Jack the Modernist · Robert Glück · ex Gay Press of New York, 1985

· Meow? · Shar Rednour · ss (r)

· Hollywood Squared · Brandon Judell · ss (r)

· Choke Hold · Lucy Taylor · ss Forbidden Acts ed. Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, Avon, 1995

· Missing · Camille Roy · ss (r)

· Temporary Insanity · Thomas Roche · ss Black Sheets #4, 1994

· Dessert for the Gourmet · William Borden · ss (r)

· Morning Love · Linda Smukler · ss (r)

· His Little Plan Backfired · Amelia Copeland · ss (r)

· Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot · Robert Olen Butler · ss The New Yorker May 22 1995

The Best American Erotica 1997 ed. Susie Bright (Touchstone Books, October 1997, 0-684-81823-X, $12.00, 256pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Susie Bright · in

· Mate [Terry & D’Schane] · Lauren P. Burka · nv Mate by Lauren P. Burka, Circlet Press, 1992; originally in electronic form; revised.

· My Professor · Ivy Topiary · ss (r)

· Lunch · Mark Stuertz · ss (r)

· What He Did · Thomas Roche · ss (r)

· She Gets Her Ass Fucked Good · Rose White & Eric Albert · ss (r)

· Queer Punk · Bob Vickery · ss (r)

· Virtue Is Its Own Reward [Bedtime Stories] · Tsaurah Litzky · ss Penthouse (US) May 1996

· Bajando La Luna · Ioana dp Valencia · ss (r)

· The Case of the Demon Lover · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss Noirotica ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros, 1996

· Day of Atonement: Confessional · Michael Lowenthal · ss Queer View Mirror ed. James Compton Johnstone & Karen X. Tulchinsky, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995

· Behind the Mask · Serena Moloch · ss (r)

· What? · Marcy Sheiner · ss (r)

· Spanish Moss · Stephen Spotte · ss (r)

· A Puja to Ganesha · Simon Sheppard · ss Ritual Sex ed. David Aaron Clark & Tristan Taormino, Rhinoceros Books, 1996

· Tumors & Humors · Joe Maynard · ss (r)

· Real · Bill Brent · ss (r)

· Feeding Frenzy · Ted Blumberg · ss (r)

· Real Blood · Lucy Taylor · ss Noirotica ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros, 1996

· Dictation · E. R. Stewart · ss Of Princes and Beauties ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1995

· The Butch’s New Clothes · Isobel Bird · ss Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales for Women ed. Michael Ford, Richard Kasak, 1996

· Soap and Water · Allegra Long · ss (r)

· How Coyote Stole the Sun · M. Christian · ss Happily Ever After ed. Michael Ford, Richard Kasak, 1996

· Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 1999 ed. Susan Bright (, 1999, tp, an)
Contents from www.susiebright.com

· from Licking Our Wounds · Elise D’Haene · ex Masquerade Books, 1998

· How to Come on a Bus · Anne Tourney · ss (r)

· Je T’aime, Batman, Je T’adore · Kelly McQuain · ss (r)

· The Two Gentlemen of Verona · Richard Collins · ss (r)

· Jack · Mike Ford · ss (r)

· from The End of Alice · A. M. Homes · ex Scribner’s, 1996

· Up for a Nickel · Thomas Roche · nv Noirotica ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros, 1996

· Penetration · Cecilia Tan · ss Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 ed. Jewelle Gomez, Cleis Press, 1997

· Watershed · Jack Murnighan · ss (r)

· Spurt · Kevin Killian · ss (r)

· Three Obscene Phone Calls · Marion Phillipps · ss (r)

· Picking Up Daddy · Robin Sweeney · ss (r)

· The Number One Song in the Country · Ben Neihart · ss (r)

· All This and Heaven, Too · John Mason Skipp · ss Seductive Spectres ed. Amarantha Knight, Rhinoceros, 1996

· Mother of Pearl · Donald Rawley · ss (r)

· Fleeing Gods · Mary Anne Mohanraj · ss SexMagick II ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1997

· The Balm That Heals · Tsaurah Litzky · ss (r)

· Doctor Fell · Michael Bronski · ss (r)

· The Terminatrix · Edo van Belkom · nv Seductive Spectres ed. Amarantha Knight, Rhinoceros, 1996

· Tell Me What It Is · Edward Falco · ss (r)

· Does Your Husband Read On-Line Pornography? · Keri Pentauk · ss (r)

The Best American Erotica 2000 ed. Susie Bright (Touchstone Books, February 2000, 0-684-84396-X, $13.00, 299pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Susie Bright · in

· Innocence in Extremis · Debra Boxer · ss (r)

· Space Girls Are Easy · Linda Jaivin · ex from Rock ‘n’ Roll Babes from Outer Space (r)

· The Maltese Dildo · Adam McCabe · ss (r)

· Triple X · Shay Youngblood · ss (r)

· Sophie’s Smoke · Mark Stuertz · ss (r)

· Calcutta · Bob Vickery · ss (r)

· S & M · Gabrielle Glancy · ss (r)

· Somewhere I Have Never Traveled · Claire Tristram · ss (r)

· 3 Shades of Longing · Jack Murnighan · ss (r)

· From Glamorama · Bret Easton Ellis · ex (r)

· ReBecca · Vicki Hendricks · ss (r)

· Fish Curry Rice · Ginu Kamani · ss Herotica 5 ed. Marcy Sheiner, Plume, 1998

· Midsummer of Love · Simon Sheppard · nv Midsummer Night’s Dreams: One Story, Many Tales ed. M. Christian, Rhinoceros, 1998

· The Manicure · Nell Carberry · ss (r)

· Essence of Rose · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Nerve.com October 1998

· It Will Do for Now · Molly Weatherfield · ss (r)

· Two Cars in a Cornfield · William Harrison · ss (r)

· Maryann · Marc Levy · ss (r)

· The Queen of Exit 17 · Ernie Conrick · ss (r)

· Ten Seconds to Love · Michelle Tea · ss (r)

· Ideal Assex · Eva Morris · ss (r)

· From The Leather Daddy and the Femme · Carol Queen · ex (r)

· Thief of Cocks · Susannah Indigo · ss (r)

· The Agent · Jess Wells · ss (r)

· Big Hungry Woman · Bill Noble · ss (r)

· The Fishing Show · Mel Harris · ss (r)

· The Blowfish · Amelia G · ss Eros ex Machina ed. M. Christian, Masquerade/Rhinoceros, 1998

· Casting Couch · Serena Moloch · ss Herotica 5 ed. Marcy Sheiner, Plume, 1998

· Scent · Susan St. Aubin · ss (r)

· Quiet Please · Aimee Bender · ss GQ May 1998

· Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 2001 ed. Susie Bright (Touchstone Books, February 2001, 0-684-86914-4, $13.00, 288pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Susie Bright · in

· Expanding on an Idea · Todd Belton · ss (r)

· From Three Women: The New Kid · Marge Piercy · ex (r)

· You Know What? · Cara Bruce · ss (r)

· Sink · Matt Bernstein Sycamore · ss (r)

· Greek Sex · Tsaurah Litzky · ss (r)

· From “Peep Show” · Nathan Englander · ex (r)

· Waxing the Thing · Ginu Kamani · ss (r)

· Fleshlight · Joe Maynard · ss (r)

· Backstage Boys · Wendy Becker · ss (r)

· From Perv—A Love Story · Jerry Stahl · ex (r)

· Bed of Leaves · Dani Shapiro · ss (r)

· Spew Forth · Dodie Bellamy · ss (r)

· Sunday · Dan Taulapapa McMullin · ss (r)

· When the Student Is Ready · Claire Tristram · ss (r)

· Jason’s Cock · James Williams · ss (r)

· From Lip Service · M. J. Rose · ex (r)

· The Man Who Ate Women · Damian Grace · ss (r)

· That’s Awful, That’s Nothing · Wade Krueger · ss (r)

· Deflower · Rosalind Christine Lloyd · ss (r)

· In This Corner · Charles Flowers · ss (r)

· And Early to Rise · Hanne Blank · ss (r)

· Rooster · Jack Murnighan · ss (r)

· Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 2002 ed. Susie Bright (Touchstone Books, February 2002, 0-684-86915-2, $14.00, 271pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Susie Bright · in

· Talk About Sex: An Orientation · Jamie Callan · ss (r)

· Joe · Maggie Estep · ss (r)

· In Deep · Simon Sheppard · ss Aqua Erotica ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj, Three Rivers Press, 2000

· The Lesson · Debra Boxer · ss (r)

· Penny Candy · Andi Mathis · ss (r)

· Cowboy · Adelina Anthony · ss (r)

· A Clean Comfortable Room · Pam Ward · ss (r)

· Mer, from Nymph · Francesca Lia Block · ss (r)

· Driving Lesson, from Sarah · J. T. LeRoy · ss (r)

· Orange Phone · Laurie Sirois · ss (r)

· On the Dangers of Simultaneity, Or, Ungh, Mmmm, Oh-Baby-Yeah, Aaah, Oooh…UH-OH! · Robert Devereaux · ss Embraces ed. Paula Guran, Venus or Vixen Press, 2000

· When to Use · Stacey Richter · ss (r)

· Champagne Tastes on a Crystal Budget · Gary Rosen · ss (r)

· Stiletto · Lucy Taylor · ss (r)

· Ropeburn · Anne Tourney · ss (r)

· From Horse Heaven · Jane Smiley · ex (r)

· Backhand · Ernie Conrick · ss (r)

· Night Train · Nell Carberry · ss (r)

· Ganger (Ball Lightning) · Nalo Hopkinson · nv Dark Matter ed. Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Aspect, 2000

· Homewrecker · Poppy Z. Brite · ss GettingIt.Com 1998

· Two Years · Paula Bomer · ss (r)

· Trolls · Michael Stamp · ss (r)

· Reading Lolita on the 9:25 · Tsaurah Litzky · ss (r)

· From Lofting · Alma Marceau · ex (r)

· The Whole Bloody Story of My Life from Beginning to End · Shaun Levin · ss (r)

· Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 2003 ed. Susie Bright (Touchstone Books, February 2003, 0-743-22261-X, $14.00, 368pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Susie Bright · in

· Talking with the Best American Erotica Authors · Susie Bright · iv (r)

· The Baby-Sitter [Bedtime Stories] · Martha Miller · ss Penthouse (US) February 1996

· From Choke · Chuck Palahniuk · ex (r)

· The Man in the Gray Flannel Tights · Susan St. Aubin · ss (r)

· Nasty · Mel Smith · ss (r)

· A Live One [Bedtime Stories] · Greta Christina · ss Penthouse (US) February 1997

· Ponyboy · James Williams · ss (r)

· In the Giraffe House, from Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh · Robert Irwin · ss (r)

· How We Did It · Susan Volchok · ss (r)

· Hombrecito · Myriam Gurba · ss (r)

· The Everlasting Secret First Family of Fuck: An Exposé · Vaginal Davis · ss (r)

· The Erotic Adventures of Jim and Louella Parsons · Bertice Berry · ss (r)

· What She Did with Her Hands · Dorothy Allison · ss (r)

· How This Story Should End · Susanna Kaysen · ss (r)
from The Camera My Mother Gave Me.

· Three Bears in a Tub · Jack Fritscher · ss (r)

· How to Make a Cake · Lisa Wolfe · ss (r)

· Mergers and Acquisitions · Zane · ss (r)

· Semen in a Bullet · Scott · ss (r)

· Courteney Cox’s Asshole · Jill Soloway · ss (r)

· The Word Nebraska · Tennessee Jones · ss (r)

· Johnny · Alison L. Smith · ss (r)

· Fucking His Wife, Four Months Pregnant with Their Third Child · Paula Bomer · ss (r)

· From “Snow,” in Woodcuts of Women · Dagoberto Gilb · ex (r)

· End-of-the-World Sex · Tsaurah Litzky · ss (r)

· Readers’ Choice: The Top 100 of the Past Ten Years

· Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Best American Erotica 2004 ed. Susie Bright (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, January 2004, xvi + 254pp, hc, an)
Details supplied by Todd Mason.

ix · Introduction · Susie Bright · in

1 · Confessions of a Japanese Salary Man · Claire Tristram · ss Fiction International December 2002

6 · The Cool Cat · Steve Almond · ss Nerve.com March 19 2002

13 · The Pitcher · Sharon Wachsler · ss Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 ed. Tristan Taormino, Cleis Press, 2002

20 · Two Guys, a Girl and a Porno Movie · Rachel Kramer Bussel · ss Best Bisexual Erotica 2 ed. Brent & Queen, Black/Circlet, 2002

28 · The Disabled Loo · Alan Cumming · ex from Tommy’s Tale, HarperCollins, 2002

33 · Sex in Space: The Video · David R. Enoch · ss 2002
from author’s page on GeoCities.com, January 2002.

53 · Dicks, Digits, Dildos · Dawn O’Hara · ss Ripe Fruit ed. Marcy Sheiner, Cleis, 2002

60 · Recent Reports on Progress Toward Fusion · Bill Noble · ss Clean Sheets February 27 2002

71 · They’re for My Husband · John Yohe · ss Leg Show March 2002

80 · The Conductor · A. W. Hill · ss Sliptongue 2002

92 · A Red Dress Tale: La Jodida Guarra · Susannah Indigo · ss Suspect Thoughts Magazine December 22 2002

104 · The Devil in Her Eye · Maggie Estep · ex from The Love Dance of the Mechanical Animals, Random House, 2003

113 · Snow · Jameson Currier · ss Velvet Mafia.com #1, 2002

123 · A Cool Dry Place · R. Gay · ss Shameless: Women’s Intimate Fantasies ed. Hanne Blank, Seal, 2002

138 · Man and Woman: A Study in Black and White · Rachel Resnick · ss Best Fetish Erotica ed. Cara Bruce, Cleis, 2002

156 · The Boy Who Read Bataille · Simon Sheppard · ss Buttmen 2: Erotic Stories and True Confessions by Gay Men Who Love Booty ed. Alan Bell, West Beach, 2002

164 · Old Tingo’s Penis · Geoffrey A. Landis · vi Interzone #181, August 2002

169 · Spawning · Joy VanNuys · ss Grunt and Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work and Sex ed. Firth & Maccari, Boheme, 2002

178 · A Guest! · Touré · vi The Portable Promised Land by Toure, Little, Brown, 2002

181 · The Audit · Dominic Santi · ss Best Transgender Erotica ed. Hanne Blank & Raven Kaldera, Circlet, 2002

199 · Girdle Boy · Jerry Stahl · ss Best Fetish Erotica ed. Cara Bruce, Cleis, 2002

204 · Wax · I. K. Velasco · ss Clean Sheets August 7 2002

209 · Vegan Lesbian Boarding School Hookers in Bondage · Lisa Montanarelli · ss The Best of the Best Meat Erotica ed. Greg Wharton, Suspect Thoughts, 2002

224 · Joannie · James Strouse · ss Nerve.com January 6 2002, as “What Joannie Found”

241 · Contributors · Susie Bright · bg

247 · Credits · [uncredited] · ms

253 · Reader Survey · Susie Bright · ms

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