Editor's introduction Acknowledgements The purple jar / Maria Edgeworth Frank's resolve / Charlotte Riddell Poisson d'Avril / Somerville and Ross A bus from Tivoli / Kate O'Brien When Miss Coles made the tea / Norah Hoult The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin The eldest child / Maeve Brennan Winter journey (The apparitions) / Anne Devlin The meaning of missing / Evelyn Conlon The coast of Wales / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne The crossing / Lia Mills The cat and the mouse / Christine Dwyer Hickey Three stories about love / Anne Enright As seen from space / Susan Stairs My little pyromaniac / Mary Costello Frogs / Molly McCloskey A fuss / Bernie McGill SOMAT / June Caldwell Shut your mouth, Hélène / Nuala Ní Chonchúir I'll take you there / Niamh Boyce Beneath the taps: a testimonial / Anakana Schofield Somewhere to be / Siobhán Mannion Through the wall / Eimear McBride Long distance / Belinda McKeon Multitudes / Lucy Caldwell Berghain / Lisa McInerney Infinite landscapes / Roisín O'Donnell Gustavo / E. M. Reapy Lane in stay / Eimear Ryan
