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• xiii • Introduction: Alive and Kicking and Writing • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 1 • Chrysalis • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 15 • The Island • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 29 • Sometime Before Dawn • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 41 • Hail to the Chief • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 55 • We'll Just Act Natural • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 65 • Olé, Orozco! Siqueiros, sí! • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 77 • The House • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 91 • The John Wilkes Booth/Warner Brothers/MGM/NBC Funeral Train • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 101 • A Careful Man Dies • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 123 • The Cat's Pajamas • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 133 • Triangle • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 145 • The Mafioso Cement-Mixing Machine • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 158 • The Ghosts • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 161 • Where's My Hat, What's My Hurry? • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 167 • The Transformation • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 177 • Sixty-Six • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 189 • A Matter of Taste • (2004) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 205 • I Get the Blues When it Rains (A Remembrance) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 213 • All My Enemies are Dead • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 221 • The Completist • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 227 • Epilogue: The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express • poem by Ray Bradbury