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"