Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter<br/>Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell<br/>Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell<br/>Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd<br/>Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown<br/>Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch<br/>White angel / Michael Cunningham<br/>Flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis<br/>Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr<br/>Concert party / Mavis Gallant<br/>Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover<br/>Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy<br/>Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan<br/>Displacement / David Wong Louie<br/>Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee<br/>Meneseteung / Alice Munro<br/>What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips<br/>Strays / Mark Richard<br/>Boy on the train / Arthur Robinson<br/>Letter writer / M.T. Sharif.<br/>Selected from US & Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel; with an introduction by Atwood.