Introduction (Paul Denham and Gail Youngberg) Home for night (Ruby Wiebe) You better not pout (Ken Mitchell) Hunting season (Helen Rosta) Iron wheels (Frances Itani) Cafe society (Guy Vanderhaeghe) This town (Diane Schoemperlen) The garden of Eloise Loon (Edna Alford) Becoming (Jake MacDonald) The wild plum tree (Sandra Birdsell) The sign (Per K. Brask) Belle in winter (Sharon Butala) Mick and I and Hong Kong heaven (Lois Simmie) Music lessons (Bonnie Burnard) Stains (Sharon MacFarlane) Well-meant advice (Elizabeth Brewster) The detachable appendage (Beth Goobie) The sound he made (Richard Cumyn) The cock's egg (Rosemary Nixon) Fall river (Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen) The wedding I never attended (Ed Kleiman)