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• ix • Preface (Eco-Fiction) • essay by John Stadler
• 1 • A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 14 • The Turtle • (1939) • short story by John Steinbeck
• 17 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 24 • The Fair Young Willowy Tree • (1939) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 32 • A Mother's Tale • (1952) • novelette by James Agee
• 54 • The Law • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• 59 • The Birds • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 85 • A Stay at the Ocean • (1969) • short story by Robley Wilson [as by Robley Wilson, Jr.]
• 100 • The Supremacy of Uruguay • (1933) • short story by E. B. White
• 104 • Look How the Fish Live • (1957) • short story by J. F. Powers
• 119 • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow • (1954) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (variant of The Big Trip Up Yonder)
• 134 • A White Heron • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 145 • The Mary Celeste Move • (1964) • short story by Frank Herbert
• 153 • The Toys of Peace • (1919) • short story by Saki
• 159 • The Subliminal Man • (1963) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 178 • The Cohen Dog Exclusion Act • short story by Steven Schrader
• 183 • It's Such a Beautiful Day • (1955) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 207 • The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter • (1944) • short story by William Saroyan