Contents
* "The Little Dirty Girl" (1982) * "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed" (1983) * "Main Street: 1953" (1983) * "How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring" (1977) * "This Afternoon" (1968) * "This Night, At My Fire" (1966) * "I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket... ''But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!''" (1964) * "Come Closer" (1965) * "It's Important to Believe" (1980) * "Mr. Wilde's Second Chance" (1966) * "Window Dressing" (1970) * "Existence" (1975) * "Foul Foul" (1971) * "A Short and Happy Life" (1969) * "The Throwaways" (1969) * "The Clichés From Outer Space" (1975) * "Elf Hill" (1982) * "Nor Custom Stale" (1959) * "The Experimenter" (1975) * "Reasonable People" (1974) * "Life in a Furniture Store" (1965) * "Old Pictures" (1973) ** "I. Visiting" (1967) ** "II. Visiting Day" (1970) * "Old Thoughts, Old Presences" (1975) ** "I. The Autobiography of My Mother" (1975) ** "II. Daddy's Little Girl" (1975)References
External links
* * 1987 short story collections Short story collections by Joanna Russ St. Martin's Press books {{1980s-sf-story-collection-stub