| Publisher's Note | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight" The Atlantic, January 1993 | p. 1 |
| "The Voyage Out" The New Yorker, January 18, 1993 | p. 26 |
| "Terrific Mother" The Paris Review, No. 124 (1992) | p. 53 |
| "We Didn't" Antaeus, Spring 1993 | p. 94 |
| "Jeremiah's Road" Shenandoah, Spring 1993 | p. 108 |
| "Not the Phil Donahue Show" The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1993 | p. 129 |
| "The Third of July" Story, Summer 1993 | p. 146 |
| "Games" The Gettysburg Review, Summer 1993 | p. 159 |
| "Semper Fidelis" Antaeus, Spring 1993 | p. 168 |
| "Rise and Shine" Raritan, Summer 1992 | p. 180 |
| "Marine Corps Issue" The Atlantic Monthly, May 1993 | p. 196 |
| "The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet" The Stanford Humanities Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1993) | p. 216 |
| "The Hanging in the Foaling Barn" The Thoroughbred Times, March 19, 1993 | p. 229 |
| "Pandora's Box" Witness, Vol. VII, No. 7 (1993) | p. 243 |
| "Nada" The Georgia Review, Winter 1992 | p. 260 |
| "Elaine's House" Epoch, Vol. 42, No. 2 (1993) | p. 272 |
| "Gook" The Chariton Review, Spring 1993 | p. 286 |
| "Where She Was" Ploughshares, Winter 1992-93 | p. 304 |
| "The Oracle" American Short Fiction, Summer 1993 | p. 313 |
| "Labor" Indiana Review, Fall 1992 | p. 337 |
| "Landing Zone X-Ray" New Letters, Vol. 58, No. 4 (1992) | p. 346 |
| Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors | p. 360 |
| Magazines Consulted | p. 374 |
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