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• xi • Introduction (Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root) • (1986) • essay by Nalo Hopkinson
• 3 • What the Periwinkle Remember (excerpt from Madam Fate) • (1999) • short fiction by Marcia Douglas
• 23 • Yurokon • (1970) • short story by Wilson Harris
• 39 • Spurn Babylon • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• 53 • Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown) • novelette by Roger McTair
• 83 • Tears for Érsulie Frèda: Men without Shadow • short story by
  Claude-Michel Prévost^?Claude-Michel Prevost
• 97 • The Village Cock • (1996) • short story by H. Nigel Thomas
• 113 • Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar • (1999) • short story by Ismith Khan
• 125 • My Mother • (1983) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• 135 • Mad Fish • (1999) • short story by Olive Senior
• 147 • Widows' Walk • (1986) • novelette by Opal Palmer Adisa
• 171 • Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia • novelette by Pamela Mordecai
• 197 • In the Beginning • short story by Lillian Allen
• 201 • Uncle Obadiah and the Alien • (1996) • short story by Geoffrey Philp
• 211 • My Grandmother's Tale of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus-Flytraps • (2000) • novelette by Robert Antoni
• 241 • Pot O' Rice Horowitz's House of Solace • (1991) • short story by Ian McDonald (II)
• 257 • The Glass Bottle Trick • short story by Nalo Hopkinson
• 273 • Buried Statues • (1967) • short story by Antonio Benítez-Rojo
• 289 • Soma • (2000) • short story by Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
• 299 • My Funny Valentine • short story by Kamau Brathwaite
• 303 • Devil Beads • short story by Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell
• 309 • Contributors' Notes (Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction) • essay by uncredited