Contents

• "Slaves"
• "The Happy Story"
• "The Asian Shore"
• "The Persistence of Desire"
• "Quincunx"
• "Displaying the Flag"
• "The Beginning of April or the End of March"
• "The Planet Arcadia"
• "The Invasion of the Giant Stupid Dinosaurs"
• "A Kiss Goodbye"
• "[X] Yes"
• "Feathers from the Wings of an Angel"
• "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory"
• "The Colors"
• "The Master of the Milford Altarpiece"
• The Complete Short Stories
• "The Man Who Understood the Difference Between Salmon and Orange Chiffon"
• "The Extension Cord"
• "Mrs. Gallagher’s Psychoanalysis"
• "The Novelist with Wooden Character"
• "Dawn Breaks Over Crakow"
• "The Tic"
• "What They Do with Mothers-in-Law in Tierra Del Fuego"
• "The Cottonwood Tree"
• "The Golden Lemons"
• "The Page for October Has Been Torn Off"
• "The Romance of the Boy and the Girl"
• "The Man Who Didn’t Doubt It"
• "Gratitude, Or, the Serpent’s Tooth"
• "Happy Families All Like Scrabble"
• "Jessica, Raymond, and Jack"
• "The Pocket from Brooks Brothers"
• "Vapors"
• " A Day in the Life of the Artist"
• "Farewell to the Riviera"
• "The Chocolate Egg"
• "The Unspoken Wish"
• "l’Homme"
• "Mimi Smith"
• "The Soliloquy in the Last Act"
• "The Pearl Necklace,"
• "Getting Into Death"

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