Marrying the hangman / Margaret Atwood -- Two fishermen / Morley Callaghan -- The lake / Joe Rosenblatt -- The Salem letters / Diane Keating -- Making it / Margaret Gibson -- The wars / Timothy Findley -- Pig-baby / Elizabeth Ukrainetz -- A sick call / Morley Callaghan -- Eugenia / Sarah Sheard -- Mummies and more / Joe Rosenblatt -- The Cohen in Cowan / Barry Callaghan -- The immaculate conception photography gallery / Katherine Govier -- When he was young and free and he used to wear silks / Austin Clarke -- Blazing figures / Robert Markle -- The victory burlesk / Margaret Atwood -- Bad words / Marlene Nourbese Philip -- A kiss is still a kiss / Barry Callaghan -- Murder in the dark / Margaret Atwood -- We so seldom look on love / Barbara Gowdy -- The madness of history / N.J. Dodic -- The sin eater / Margaret Atwwod -- Doing right / Austin Clarke -- Waking in Eden / Seán Virgo -- The key / Rober Zend