| Introduction : sublime rebel | p. 1 |
| Lagniappe | p. 5 |
| The sword of Parmagon | p. 15 |
| The Gloconda | p. 21 |
| The wilder one | p. 27 |
| The saga of Machine Gun Joe | p. 29 |
| Introduction to Glowworm | p. 31 |
| Glowworm | p. 35 |
| Life hutch | p. 47 |
| S.R.O. | p. 59 |
| Lonelyache | p. 73 |
| Punky and the Yale men | p. 89 |
| A prayer for no one's enemy | p. 113 |
| Pulling hard time | p. 131 |
| In lonely lands | p. 139 |
| The time of the eye | p. 145 |
| Grail | p. 153 |
| I have no mouth, and I must scream | p. 177 |
| Corpse | p. 191 |
| The whimper of whipped dogs | p. 199 |
| The voice in the garden | p. 219 |
| Erotophobia | p. 221 |
| Mom | p. 227 |
| Ecowareness | p. 239 |
| The outpost undiscovered by tourists | p. 241 |
| Dept. of "what was the question?" dept | p. 245 |
| Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" dept | p. 247 |
| Prince Myshkin, and hold the relish | p. 251 |
| The very last day of a good woman | p. 261 |
| Valerie : A true memoir | p. 269 |
| The other eye of Polyphemus | p. 283 |
| All the birds come home to roost | p. 291 |
| The tombs : an excerpt from Memos from purgatory | p. 307 |
| "Our little miss" | p. 347 |
| A love song for Jerry Falwell | p. 355 |
| Telltale tics and tremors | p. 361 |
| True love : groping for the Holy Grail | p. 371 |
| Adrift just off the Islets of Langerhans : latitude 38[degrees] 54'N, longitude 77[degrees] 00' 13"W | p. 391 |
| The function of dream sleep | p. 419 |
| The sky is burning | p. 447 |
| The prowler in the city at the edge of the world | p. 455 |
| Along the scenic route | p. 473 |
| The song the zombie sang | p. 483 |
| Knox | p. 495 |
| With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole | p. 509 |
| From Alabamy, with hate | p. 531 |
| My father | p. 543 |
| My mother | p. 549 |
| Tired old man | p. 557 |
| Gopher in the gilly | p. 567 |
| Strange wine | p. 573 |
| The resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie | p. 585 |
| Flintlock : An unproduced teleplay | p. 655 |
| The man on the mushroom | p. 735 |
| Somehow, I don't think we're in Kansas, Toto | p. 739 |
| Face-down in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool | p. 755 |
| Soldier | p. 763 |
| The night of delicate terrors | p. 781 |
| Shattered like a glass goblin | p. 789 |
| At the mouse circus | p. 797 |
| Free with this box! | p. 809 |
| Final shtick | p. 817 |
| One life, furnished in early poverty | p. 827 |
| Jeffty is five | p. 841 |
| Daniel White for the greater good | p. 863 |
| Neither your Jenny nor mine | p. 873 |
| Alive and well and on a friendless voyage | p. 907 |
| "Repent, harlequin!" said the Ticktockman | p. 923 |
| Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes | p. 933 |
| A boy and his dog | p. 951 |
| The deathbird | p. 985 |
| Paladin of the lost hour | p. 1011 |
| Soft monkey | p. 1031 |
| Mefisto in onyx | p. 1043 |
| Where I shall dwell in the next world | p. 1089 |
| The museum on Cyclops Avenue | p. 1099 |
| Objects of desire in the mirror are closer than they appear | p. 1109 |
| Man on spikes | p. 1119 |
| Introduction to "Tired old man" | p. 1127 |
| The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore | p. 1131 |
| The thick red moment | p. 1151 |
| The man who was heavily into revenge | p. 1169 |
| Driving in the spikes | p. 1181 |
| An edge in my voice, installment 55 | p. 1191 |
| The streets, installment 1 | p. 1195 |
| Xenogenesis | p. 1199 |
| Afterword | p. 1237 |
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