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• [3] •  Minnie the Split Atom • interior artwork by George Logue
• [4] •  Motaur • interior artwork by George Logue
• [12] • The Written Word (excerpt) • essay by Gorham Munson
• 3 • Foreword: Speaking in Parables • essay by Nym Wales
• 26 • Minnie, the Schizophrenic Uranium Atom: A Mineral Fable • short story by Nym Wales
• 29 • The Meeting of the Four Elements: A Fable for the Atomic Age • short story by Nym Wales
• 32 • The Tale of a Lipstick • short story by Nym Wales
• 33 • The Bolt in the Steering Wheel: A Fable for the Machine Age • short story by Nym Wales
• 35 • The Harpy and the Motaur • short story by Nym Wales
• 41 • The Harpies • short story by Nym Wales
• 41 • The Seven Levels: The American Success Myth • short story by Nym Wales
• 52 • The Man Who Became a Typewriter • short story by Nym Wales
• 59 • The Man Who Learned to Purr • short story by Nym Wales
• 61 • Every Cat Must Have His Bird • short story by Nym Wales
• 61 • The Dog Men of New York • short story by Nym Wales
• 64 • Martha, an American Manuscript: A Vegetable (Paper Is a Vegetable) Fable • short story by Nym Wales
• 67 • The Umbrella Tree • short story by Nym Wales
• 70 • The Dove: A Fable of Peace in the Mid-Century • short story by Nym Wales
• 71 • The Millstones • short story by Nym Wales
• 72 • The Tree That People Threw Stones At: A Vegetable Fable • short story by Nym Wales
• 72 • The Hard Walnut: A Vegetable Fable • short story by Nym Wales
• 73 • The Label, the Individual and the Atom • short story by Nym Wales
• 78 • The Flood: A Parable of Atomic War • short story by Nym Wales
• 78 • The Dam • short story by Nym Wales
• 79 • The Mob • short story by Nym Wales
• 80 • The First Stone • short story by Nym Wales
• 81 • A Sermon in Stones • short story by Nym Wales
• 81 • The Steam Roller • short story by Nym Wales
• 81 • The Three on the Road • short story by Nym Wales
• 83 • Quality • short story by Nym Wales
• 84 • Labor Nails Its Own Martyrs to the Cross • short story by Nym Wales
• 85 • The Burning of the Books • short story by Nym Wales
• 86 • The Parable of Michael Servetus • short story by Nym Wales
• 87 • The Communist Menace: A Parable for the McCarthy Era • short story by Nym Wales
• 89 • The Most Dangerous Truths Suffer the Greatest Persecution • short story by Nym Wales
• 89 • The Clam-Digger and the Tide • short story by Nym Wales
• 90 • The Holy City • short story by Nym Wales
• 91 • The Parable of Guilford, Connecticut • short story by Nym Wales
• 93 • Police Force • short story by Nym Wales
• 94 • Iron • short story by Nym Wales
• 95 • The Customs of the Country • short story by Nym Wales
• 97 • The Only Remedy • short story by Nym Wales
• 98 • The Search for a Manly Man • short story by Nym Wales
• 100 • The Test Tube • short story by Nym Wales
• 101 • The First Morning of the First Spring • short story by Nym Wales
• 102 • The Incorruptible • short story by Nym Wales
• 103 • The Inexorable • short story by Nym Wales
• 104 • That Which Is Taken Away • short story by Nym Wales
• 105 • A Talent for Being a Woman • short story by Nym Wales
• 107 • American Girl • short story by Nym Wales
• 110 • The Woman Who Learned How to Bewitch Men • short story by Nym Wales
• 114 • Two Women • short story by Nym Wales
•  The Sachem's Daughter • interior artwork by George Logue
•  The Man Who Learned to Purr • interior artwork by George Logue
•  The Dove • interior artwork by George Logue
•  The Millstones • interior artwork by George Logue
• 117 • Two Sisters • short story by Nym Wales
• 121 • A Little Masterpiece for the Anthologies • short story by Nym Wales
• 126 • Her Natural Enemies • short story by Nym Wales
• 127 • Two Dancers • short story by Nym Wales
• 128 • Genealogy • short story by Nym Wales
• 130 • The Poisoner • short story by Nym Wales
• 131 • The Mutilated • short story by Nym Wales
• 134 • There Is a Lucifer in Every Man • short story by Nym Wales
• 135 • Illness Is the Chief Nurse of Talent • short story by Nym Wales
• 136 • Determinism • short story by Nym Wales
• 136 • The Atomic Vault • short story by Nym Wales
• 139 • The Wealth of the Indies • short story by Nym Wales
• 139 • The Red and the White • short story by Nym Wales
• 140 • The National Approach • short story by Nym Wales
• 140 • The Lighthouse Keepers • short story by Nym Wales
• 142 • Mr. Grabbitt • short story by Nym Wales
• 148 • Every Man's Life Is a Parable: A Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post • short story by Nym Wales
• 151 • One of the Gentlemen from Indiana: A Parable in Parentheses • short story by Nym Wales
• 157 • The Man Who Resigned from the Human Race • short story by Nym Wales
• 159 • Men, Women and Words • short story by Nym Wales
• 165 • The One Thing • short story by Nym Wales
• 169 • The Forbidden Secret Weapon • short story by Nym Wales
• 171 • A Selfish Wife Trains a Good Husband • short story by Nym Wales
• 172 • A Pair of Black Shoes • short story by Nym Wales
• 176 • An Idiot's Tale • short story by Nym Wales
• 177 • Death and the Woman • short story by Nym Wales
• 179 • A Sense of Providence • short story by Nym Wales
• 181 • The Steam Roller: A Puritan Fable • short story by Nym Wales
• 184 • Return • short story by Nym Wales
• 184 • The Whirlpool • short story by Nym Wales
• 185 • The Cavern and the Sea • short story by Nym Wales
• 186 • The Holy Grail • short story by Nym Wales
• 187 • The Discovery of the Unconscious • short story by Nym Wales
• 188 • Susan and the Id: An Allegory • short story by Nym Wales
• 199 • The Sachem's Daughter: An American Fairy Tale for the Dance • short story by Nym Wales
• 202 • Hiawatha: An Un-American Totem Saga • short story by Nym Wales
• 204 • The Move to Abolish the Moon • short story by Nym Wales
• 204 • The Weaver on a Mountain • short story by Nym Wales
• 214 • A Touch of Fantasy • short story by Nym Wales
• 225 • The True Gift • short story by Nym Wales
• 240 • Ithuriel's Spear • short story by Nym Wales
• 258 • Old Hsia's Perfect Square • short story by Nym Wales
• 263 • The Ambivalent Goddess • short story by Nym Wales
• 264 • The Greek Spirit • short story by Nym Wales
• 271 • The Discovery of Zero • short story by Nym Wales
• 278 • The man Who Made Bad Axes • short story by Nym Wales
• 278 • The Tale of the Scotch-Irish Shirt • short story by Nym Wales
• 281 • Sycamores Along the Brandywine • short story by Nym Wales
• 288 • American Pilgrim's Progress • short story by Nym Wales
• 300 • Ruth Hedges, a Daughter of Easthampton • short story by Nym Wales
• 308 • The Western Pioneers: Grandma Putnam • short story by Nym Wales
• 321 • American Welsh • short story by Nym Wales
• 326 • Old Town Street • short story by Nym Wales
• 331 • The Downings of Chester Valley • short story by Nym Wales