Introduction by editor Stephen Wright "Three Strategems" - Gore Vidal "Paul's Mistress" - Guy de Maupassant "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall" - Phil Andros "Sea-Change" - Phil Andros "Arrangement in Black and White" - Phil Andros "I (Cupid) and the Gangster" - Phil Andros "The Prussian Officer" - D. H. Lawrence "Martin" - Paul Goodman "The Priest and the Acolyte" - attributed to Oscar Wilde "The Crooked Man" - Charles Beaumont "On Reugen Island" - Christopher Isherwood "The Theban Warriors" - Lonnie Coleman "Excerpts from Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal" - attributed to Oscar Wilde "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" - Wilma Shore "Saul" - Michael Mason "Hands" - Sherwood Anderson "Snowfall" - Joseph Hansen "A Romantic Hero" - Olivia Manning "Cruising" - Francis Marsh "Fulvous Yellow" - Stanley Kauffman "Day of the Alligator" - James Blake "Excerpts from Tim" - Howard Overing Sturgis "Ismael" - Alfred Chester "The Pupil" - Henry James
