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Wicked Words 4: A Black Lace short-story collection ed. Kerri Sharp (Black Lace 0-352-33603-X, 2001, £6.99, ix+299pp, pb, cover by Emma Delves-Broughton); Anthology of 17 original erotic stories. [IC]

vii • Introduction and Newsletter • Kerri Sharp • in *
1 • Marilyn’s Frock • Julie Savage • ss *
17 • Still Life with Fruit • Alison Tyler • ss *
31 • Screen Dream • Portia Da Costa • ss *
45 • Room Service • Maria Eppie • ss *
63 • Scratch • Astrid Fox • ss *
83 • Up to No Good • Tabitha Flyte • ss *
97 • The Mayfair • A. J. Ivanov • ss *
117 • Permanent Waves • Tina Glynn • ss *
133 • Isobel’s Brass Bed • Kate Dominic • ss *
147 • Something to Remember You By • Tracey Allyson • ss *
169 • Melinda • Mitzi Szereto • ss *
187 • Hands Up • Maria Lyonesse • ss *
207 • Girls Are No Good... • Ms. Steak • ss *
223 • Thatching (and Other Rural Crafts) • Roxy Rhinestone • ss *
237 • Nita Kathryn • Anne Dubois • ss *
255 • The Trouble with Guys • Verena Yexley • nv *
279 • A Great Job • Juliet Lloyd Williams • ss *
Herotica 5: A New Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction ed. Marcy Sheiner (Plume 0-452-27812-0, Feb ’98, $13.95, 224pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Marcy Sheiner • in
• The Knitting Circle • Joan Leslie Taylor • ss *
• Letter from New Orleans • Catherine M. Tavel • ss *
• Box • Felice Newman • ss *
• Dragon Cat Flower • Cecilia Tan • ss *
• Walls of Fire • Christine Solano • ss *
• Mind Fuck • Kelly Conway • ss *
• Casting Couch • Serena Moloch • ss *
• Drowsy • Maggie Jolie Graham • ss *
• Celia and the Bed • Winn Gilmore • ss *
• Leash • Michele Serchuk • ss *
• In the Mood • Adrienne Rabinov • ss *
• The Hobby Horse • Karen A. Selz • ss *
• Under His Thumb • Marcy Sheiner • ss *
• Sabrina • Stacy Reed • ss *
• Fish Curry Rice • Ginu Kamani • ss *
• Glory • Susan St. Aubin • ss *
• Playing for the Camera • Aurora Light • ss *
• Marilyn • Carol Queen • ss *
• Get on Your Bikes and Ride • Blake C. Aarens • ss *
• The Appliance • Michelle Stevens • ss *
• Thirst • Julia Rader • ss *
• Tame • Sonja Kindley • ss *
• Sauce • Karen Marie Christa Minns • ss *
• Author Bios • Misc. Material • bg
Herotica 6: A New Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction ed. Marcy Sheiner (Down There Press 0-940-20825-3, Apr ’99, $12.50, 216pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Marcy Sheiner • in
• Neighborhood Round Robyn • Mel Harris • ss *
• Season of Marriage • Mary Anne Mohanraj • ss *
• A Little Slip • Shelley Marcus • ss *
• Snooping • Laurel Fisher • ss *
• Mourning the Peasant • Maria Mendoza • ss *
• The Rose Velvet Chaise • Joan Leslie Taylor • ss *
• After Amelia • Nancy Ferretra • ss *
• The Album • Kate Dominic • ss *
• The Portrait • Deborah Bishop • ss *
• Lesbian Bed Death: A Case Study • Michelle Stevens • ss *
• The Adventure of Marriage • Marcy Sheiner • ss *
• Blue Moon over Paradise • Lisa Prosimo • ss *
• Simple Gifts • Diva Marie • ss *
• Prince Valiant, Queen Serena and the Peepshow Palace • Red Jordan Arobateau • ss *
• Three Note Harmony • Susanna J. Herbert • ss *
• June’s High Holy Day • Shar Rednour • ss *
• First Call • Victoria Smith • ss *
• Always • Cecilia Tan • ss *
• Being Met • Carol Queen • ss *
• The Man Who Didn’t Dream • Susan St. Aubin • ss *
• Shadow on the Wall • Susannah Indigo • ss *
• Contributors • Misc. Material • bg
Daughters of Decadence ed. Elaine Showalter (London: Virago Press 1-85381-590-X, Jun ’93, £6.99, xx+326pp, tp); 18 stories by women writers of the fin-de-siècle. None overtly supernatural though a few are surreal.

vii • Introduction • Elaine Showalter • in
• An Egyptian Cigarette • Kate Chopin • ss Vogue Apr 19 ’00
• Emancipation: A Life Fable • Kate Chopin • ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1969
• Theodora: A Fragment • Victoria Cross • ss The Yellow Book, 1895
• Suggestion • Ada Leverson • ss The Yellow Book Apr, 1895
• A Cross Line • George Egerton • ss 1893Keynotes, London: John Lane, 1893
• She-Notes • Borgia Smudgiton • ss Punch Mar 10, 1884 (+1)
• By Accident • George Fleming • ss, 1898
• The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
• The Undefinable: A Fantasia • Sarah Grand • ss Emotional Moments, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1908
• Lady Tal • Vernon Lee • ss Vanities, London: Heinemann, 1896
• A White Night • Charlotte Mew • ss Temple Bar May ’07
• The Buddhist Priest’s Wife • Olive Schreiner • ss Stories, Dreams and Allegories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923
• Three Dreams in a Desert • Olive Schreiner • ss Dreams, Donohoe, 1890
• Life’s Gift • Olive Schreiner • ss Dreams, Donohoe, 1890
• The Valley of Childish Things • Edith Wharton • ss The Century Jul, 1896
• The Muse’s Tragedy • Edith Wharton • ss Greater Inclination, Scribner, 1899
• Miss Grief • Constance Fenimore Woolson • ss Lippincott’s May, 1880
• The Fifth Edition • Mabel E. Wotton • ss Day-Books, London: John Lane, 1896
The American Reader ed. Claude M. Simpson & Allan Nevins (D.C. Boston: Heath, 1941, 866pp, hc)

v • Foreword • Henry Seidel Canby • fw
• Exposition
• PORTRAITS
3 • I Become a Student • Lincoln Steffens • ar
8 • My Home • Clarence Darrow • ar
12 • Learning the River • Samuel L. Clemens • ar
21 • Where I Lived, and What I lived For • Henry David Thoreau • ar
31 • Rodeo • Thomas Hart Benton • ar
38 • Wayside Pikes • Clarence King • ar
47 • Shooting the Young Idea • Heywood Broun • ar
53 • George Lyman Kittredge • Stuart P. Sherman • ar
56 • Charles Goodyear • James Parton • ar
80 • The Happy Warrior • John Dos Passos • ar
• ESSAYS ON AMERICA
85 • Still Rebels, Still Yankees • Donald Davidson • ar
99 • The Significance of the Frontoer in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner • ar
115 • Kansas • Carl Becker • ar
128 • Information to Those Who Would Remove to America • Benjamin Franklin • ar
133 • Changing America • Vernon L. Parrington • ar
142 • Crash! • Frederick Lewis Allen • ar
153 • From Longhorn to Combine • Paul B. Sears • ar
160 • Thirty Million New Americans • Louis Adamic • ar Harper’s Nov ’34
170 • To Heaven by Subway • The Editors of Fortune • ar
185 • Free Speech in the Democracy • Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes • ar
189 • The American of the Future • Walt Whitman • ar
• LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
195 • Humor and America • Max Eastman • ar
204 • Huckleberry Finn • John Erskine • ar The Delineator Feb ’27
211 • Hawthorne’s Three American Novels • Henry James • ar
224 • The American Scholar • Ralph Waldo Emerson • ar
236 • The Poetic “Renaissance” • Granville Hicks • ar
242 • Fiction Tells All • Henry Seidel Canby • ar
251 • The American Language • H. L. Mencken • ar
259 • The Negro’s Creative Genius • James Weldon Johnson • ar
265 • Music and the Flag • Deems Taylor • ar
269 • Contemporary American Artists • Gerald Bywaters • ar
274 • Architecture and Civilization • Lewis Mumford • ar
• LETTERS
281 • George Washing to Martha Washington • George Washington • lt
282 • Thomas Jefferson to President James Monroe • Thomas Jefferson • lt
284 • Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne • Herman Melville • lt
287 • Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley • Abraham Lincoln • lt
288 • Artemus Ward to His Wife • Artemus Ward • lt
291 • William James to Henry James • William James • lt
• Poetry
• BALLADS AND FOLK TALES
297 • Nathan Hale • Anon. • sg
298 • I Got Shoes • Anon. • sg
198 • John Henry • Anon. • sg, 1870
300 • The Roving Gambler • Anon. • sg
300 • The Erie Canal • Anon. • sg
300 • The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley • Anon. • sg
301 • The Old Chisholm Trail • Anon. • sg
302 • Good-by, Old Paint • Anon. • sg
303 • O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie • Anon. • sg
304 • Git Along, Little Dogies • Anon. • sg
305 • Jesse James • Anon. • sg
• FIFTEEN POETS
306 • One’s-Self I Sing • Walt Whitman • pm
306 • From Song of Myself: 1, 6, 16, 17, 21, 52 • Walt Whitman • pm
310 • I Hear America Singing • Walt Whitman • pm
311 • Night in the Prairies • Walt Whitman • pm
311 • For You O Democracy • Walt Whitman • pm
312 • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry • Walt Whitman • pm
316 • O Magnet-South • Walt Whitman • pm
317 • Cavalry Crossing a Ford • Walt Whitman • pm
318 • Come Up from the Fields Father • Walt Whitman • pm
319 • As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods • Walt Whitman • pm
319 • Pioneers! O Pioneers! • Walt Whitman • pm
322 • To a Certain Civilian • Walt Whitman • pm
323 • The Height of the Rediculous • Oliver Wendell Holmes • pm
323 • My Aunt • Oliver Wendell Holmes • pm
324 • The Last Leaf • Oliver Wendell Holmes • pm
324 • Old Ironsides • Oliver Wendell Holmes • pm
325 • Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline • Oliver Wendell Holmes • pm
326 • The Shoemakers • John Greenleaf Whittier • pm
327 • Massachusetts to Virginia • John Greenleaf Whittier • pm
329 • Telling the Bees • John Greenleaf Whittier • pm
330 • The Eternal Goddess • John Greenleaf Whittier • pm
331 • Mending Wall • Robert Frost • pm
332 • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening • Robert Frost • pm
333 • Two Tramps in Mud Time • Robert Frost • pm
334 • Birches • Robert Frost • pm
335 • The Road Not Taken • Robert Frost • pm
335 • A Lone Striker • Robert Frost • pm The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1933
336 • A Old Man’s Winter Night • Robert Frost • pm
336 • Hawthorne • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
337 • From The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha’s Wooing • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
340 • The Birds of Killingworth • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
345 • The Harvest Moon • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
346 • The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
346 • Concord Hymn • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
346 • Each and All • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
347 • The Humble-Bee • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
348 • The Snow-Storm • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
348 • Terminus • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
349 • Romance • Edgar Allan Poe • pm, 1831
349 • To Helen • Edgar Allan Poe • pm, 1831
349 • Lenore • Edgar Allan Poe • pm, 1845
350 • Ulalume • Edgar Allan Poe • pm American Whig Review Dec, 1847
352 • Eldorado • Edgar Allan Poe • pm The Flag of Our Union Apr 21, 1849
352 • Annabel Lee • Edgar Allan Poe • pm Tribune Oct 9, 1849
353 • Song of the Chattahoochee • Sidney Lanier • pm
353 • The Mocking Bird • Sidney Lanier • pm
354 • The Stirrup-Cup • Sidney Lanier • pm
354 • Corn • Sidney Lanier • pm
357 • Thar’s More in the Man than Thar Is in the Land • Sidney Lanier • pm
359 • Evening Song • Sidney Lanier • pm
• From John Brown’s Body • Stephen Vincent Benét • gp
359 • Invocation • Stephen Vincent Benét • pm Saturday Review of Literature Jun 11 ’27
364 • Mountaineers • Stephen Vincent Benét • pm
366 • Appomattox • Stephen Vincent Benét • pm
368 • The Pious Editor’s Creed • James Russell Lowell • pm
369 • The Courtin’ • James Russell Lowell • pm
370 • Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration • James Russell Lowell • pm
378 • Credo • Edwin Arlington Robinson • pm
378 • Richard Cory • Edwin Arlington Robinson • pm
378 • How Annandale Went Out • Edwin Arlington Robinson • pm
379 • Miniver Cheevy • Edwin Arlington Robinson • pm
379 • The Dinner-Party • Amy Lowell • pm
381 • The Proud Father • Vachel Lindsay • pm
382 • General William Booth Enters into Heaven • Vachel Lindsay • pm
383 • The Eagle That Is Forgotten • Vachel Lindsay • pm
384 • In Praise of Johnny Appleseed, Part I • Vachel Lindsay • pm
387 • Chicago • Carl Sandburg • pm
388 • To a Contemporary Bunkshooter • Carl Sandburg • pm
389 • Caboose Thoughts • Carl Sandburg • pm
391 • Threes • Carl Sandburg • pm
391 • Speech to Those Who Say Comrade • Archibald MacLeish • pm
• Drama
359 • Green Grow the Lilacs • Lynn Riggs • pl
455 • Our Town • Thornton Wilder • pl
501 • The Green Pastures • Marc Connelly • pl
• Narration
• FOLK TALES
559 • The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton • ss
562 • A Useful Coonskin • David Crockett • ss
565 • The Fight • A. B. Longstreet • ss
572 • The Big Bear of Arkansas • T. B. Thorpe • ss
581 • Sicily Burns’s Wedding • George W. Harris • ss
586 • Uncle Remus: I. The Wonderful Tab-Baby Story • Joel Chandler Harris • vi
588 • Uncle Remus: II. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox • Joel Chandler Harris • vi
589 • The Buckskin Harness • Esther Shephard • ss
• SHORT STORIES
593 • Lady Eleanore’s Mantle • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss
602 • The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
605 • The Man Without a Country • Edward Everett Hale • nv Atlantic Monthly Dec, 1863
623 • Tennessee’s Partner • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Oct, 1869
629 • The “Harnt” That Walks Chilhowee • Mary Noailles Murfree • ss
645 • On the Walpole Road • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • ss
652 • One of the Missing • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 1888
660 • The Return of a Private • Hamlin Garland • nv
672 • A Municipal Report • O. Henry • ss, 1909
683 • I’m a Fool • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Feb ’22
691 • The Golden Honeymoon • Ring Lardner • ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’22
703 • The Three-Day Blow • Ernest Hemingway • ss
711 • How Beautiful with Shoes • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Harper’s Aug ’32
726 • He • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
733 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 ’36
744 • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
• NOVELETTE
752 • Remembering Laughter • Wallace Stegner • nv Redbook Sep ’37
803 • Notes • Misc. Material • ms
The Best American Short Stories 1995 ed. Jane Smiley & Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin 0395711800, 1995, $24.95, 366pp, hc)

• Orientation • Daniel Orozco • ss
• Way Down Deep in the Jungle • Thom Jones • ss New Yorker Mar 14 ’94
• The Stucco House • Ellen Gilchrist • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’94
• A Night’s Work • Jaimy Gordon • ss
• Pity • Avner Mandelman • ss
• Leg • Steven Polansky • ss New Yorker Jan 24 ’94
• The Ugliest House in the World • Peter Ho Davies • ss
• Birthmates • Gish Jen • ss
• The Drowning • Edward Delaney • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’94
• Honored Guest • Joy Williams • ss Harper’s Jun ’94
• The Behavior of the Hawkweeds • Andrea Barrell • ss
• Hand Jive • Andrew Cozine • ss
• So I Guess You Know What I Told Him • Stephen Dobyns • ss
• Undertow • Jennifer C. Cornell • ss
• Pagan Night • Kate Braverman • ss
• First, Body • Melanie Rae Thon • ss
• The Angel Esmeralda • Don DeLillo • ss
• The Artist • Edward Falco • ss Atlantic Monthly Oct ’94
• Chiromancy • Max Garland • ss
• Xuela • Jamaica Kincaid • ss New Yorker May 9 ’94
Ten Top Stories ed. David A. Sohn (Bantam, 1964, pb); [GVG]

• Flowers for Algernon • Daniel Keyes • nv F&SF Apr ’59
• So Much Unfairness of Things • C. D. B. Bryan • ss
• Backward Boy • Gene Coghlan • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 16 ’60
• Denton’s Daughter • Ellen Lowenberg • ss
• Hoods I Have Known • Sondra Spatt • ss
• Planet of the Condemned • Robert Murphy • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 30 ’60
• Test • Theodore L. Thomas • ss F&SF Apr ’62
• See How They Run • George Harmon Coxe • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 16 ’41
• Polar Night • Norah Burke • ss
• The Turtle • George Vukelich • ss
American Families ed. Barbara H. Solomon (Mentor 0-451-62736-9, Nov ’89, $6.99, 448pp, pb); Contents from publisher’s catalog.

• Introduction • Barbara H. Solomon • in
• Regret • Kate Chopin • ss The Century May, 1895
• The Lombardy Poplar • Mary Wilkins Freeman • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep ’02
• The Widow’s Might • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss The Forerunner Jan ’11
• Old Rogaum and His Theresa [“Butcher Rogaum’s Door”] • Theodore Dreiser • ss Reedy’s Mirror Dec 12 ’01
• The Sorrows of Gin • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Dec 12 ’53
• I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
• Simple and Cousin F. D. Roosevelt Brown • Langston Hughes • ss
• The Sky Is Gray • Ernest J. Gaines • ss
• My Coney Island Uncle • Harvey Swados • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 17 ’64
• My Son the Murderer • Bernard Malamud • ss Esquire Nov ’68
• Final Dwarf • Henry Roth • ss
• And Sarah Laughed • Joanne Greenberg • ss
• Wedding Day • Roberta Silman • ss
• The Legacy of Beau Kremel • Stephen Wolf • ss Ploughshares Win ’78
• Kiswana Brown [from The Women of Brewster Place] • Gloria Naylor • ex;
• Tuesdays • Mary Hedin • ss
• Afloat • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker Sep 21 ’81
• Winterblossom Garden • David Low • ss
• Old Things • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss
• Starlight • Marian Thurm • ss New Yorker May 10 ’82
• The Writer in the Family • E. L. Doctorow • ss Esquire Aug ’84
• The Rich Brother • Tobias Wolff • ss Vanity Fair, 1985
• My Legacy • Don Zacharia • ss
• Violation • Mary Gordon • ss Mademoiselle May ’87
• Appropriate Affect • Sue Miller • ss
• What I Did for Love • Lynne Sharon Schwartz • ss
• Still of Some Use • John Updike • ss New Yorker Oct 6 ’80
• Elephant • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Jun 9 ’86

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