Table of Contents

	Foreword	p. xi
	Olinger Stories
	You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You	p. 3
	The Alligators	p. 7
	Pigeon Feathers	p. 13
	Friends from Philadelphia	p. 34
	A Sense of Shelter	p. 41
	Flight	p. 52
	The Happiest I've Been	p. 67
	The Persistence of Desire	p. 81
	The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother's Thimble, and Fanning Island	p. 91
	Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car	p. 102
	In Football Season	p. 122
	Out in the World
	The Lucid Eye in Silver Town	p. 129
	The Kid's Whistling	p. 138
	Ace in the Hole	p. 144
	Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth	p. 152
	The Christian Roommates	p. 161
	Dentistry and Doubt	p. 184
	A Madman	p. 190
	Still Life	p. 201
	Home	p. 214
	Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?	p. 225
	His Finest Hour	p. 237
	A Trillion Feet of Gas	p. 248
	Dear Alexandros	p. 257
	The Doctor's Wife	p. 261
	At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie	p. 269
	Married Life
	Toward Evening	p. 283
	Snowing in Greenwich Village	p. 288
	Sunday Teasing	p. 296
	Incest	p. 303
	A Gift from the City	p. 315
	Walter Briggs	p. 334
	The Crow in the Woods	p. 340
	Should Wizard Hit Mommy?	p. 344
	Wife-Wooing	p. 350
	Unstuck	p. 354
	Giving Blood	p. 361
	Twin Beds in Rome	p. 372
	Marching through Boston	p. 380
	Nakedness	p. 389
	Family Life
	The Family Meadow	p. 397
	The Day of the Dying Rabbit	p. 401
	How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time	p. 411
	The Music School	p. 416
	Man and Daughter in the Cold	p. 421
	The Rescue	p. 428
	Plumbing	p. 436
	The Orphaned Swimming Pool	p. 442
	When Everyone Was Pregnant	p. 446
	Eros Rampant	p. 451
	Sublimating	p. 462
	Nevada	p. 470
	The Gun Shop	p. 480
	Son	p. 491
	Daughter, Last Glimpses of	p. 496
	The Two Iseults
	Solitaire	p. 505
	Leaves	p. 510
	The Stare	p. 514
	Museums and Women	p. 520
	Avec la Bebe-Sitter	p. 530
	Four Sides of One Story	p. 537
	The Morning	p. 546
	My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails	p. 552
	Harv Is Plowing Now	p. 559
	I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me	p. 564
	Tarbox Tales
	The Indian	p. 573
	The Hillies	p. 579
	The Tarbox Police	p. 584
	The Corner	p. 589
	A & P	p. 596
	Lifeguard	p. 602
	The Deacon	p. 608
	The Carol Sing	p. 614
	The Taste of Metal	p. 618
	Your Lover Just Called	p. 623
	Commercial	p. 630
	Minutes of the Last Meeting	p. 636
	Believers	p. 640
	Eclipse	p. 645
	Far Out
	Archangel	p. 649
	The Dark	p. 651
	The Astronomer	p. 656
	The Witnesses	p. 661
	A Constellation of Events	p. 666
	Ethiopia	p. 675
	Transaction	p. 682
	Augustine's Concubine	p. 702
	During the Jurassic	p. 708
	Under the Microscope	p. 713
	The Balcuhitherium	p. 716
	The Invention of the Horse Collar	p. 719
	Jesus on Honshu	p. 723
	The Slump	p. 727
	The Sea's Green Sameness	p. 730
	The Single Life
	The Bulgarian Poetess	p. 737
	The Hermit	p. 751
	I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying	p. 765
	Separating	p. 788
	Gesturing	p. 799
	Killing	p. 810
	Problems	p. 820
	The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals	p. 823
	Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer	p. 829
	Index of Titles	p. 835

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