Electronic version includes an appendix, Dark work: an interview with Joyce Carol Oates by Sean Abbott, HarperCollins Publishers, January 23, c2001.
Au sable --; Ugly --; Lover --; Summer sweat --; Questions --; Physical --; Gunlove --; Faithless --; The scarf --; What then, my life? --; Secret, silent --; A Manhattan romance --; Murder-two --; The vigil --; We were worried about you --; The stalker --; The vampire --; Tusk --; The high school sweetheart: a mystery --; Death watch --; In *copland* --; Appendix.
A collection of twenty-one short stories that look into the darker sides of ordinary people.