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Part One
The bridge
The Toronto Star, 1945
The Blind Assassin: Perennials for the Rock Garden
Part Two
The hard-boiled egg
The Globe and Mail, 1947
The park bench
The Toronto Star, 1975
The carpets
The Globe and Mail, 1998
The lipstick heart
The Colonel Henry Parkman High School Home and School and Alumni Association Bulletin, 1998
Part Three
The presentation
The silver box
The Button Factory
Avilion
The trousseau
The gramophone
Bread day
Black ribbons
The soda
Part Four
The cafe
The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, 1933
The chenille spread
The Mail and Empire, 1934
The messenger
The Mail and Empire, 1934
Horses of the night
Mayfair, 1935
The bronze bell
Part Five
The fur coat
The Weary Soldier
Miss Violence
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
The button factory picnic
Loaf givers
Hand-tinting
The cold cellar
The attic
The Imperial Room
The Arcadian Court
The tango
Part Six
The houndstooth suit
Red brocade
The Toronto Star, 1935
Street walk
The janitor
Mayfair, 1936
Alien on Ice
Part Seven
The steamer trunk
The Fire Pit
Postcards from Europe
The eggshell hat
Besotted
Sunnyside
Xanadu
Part Eight
Carnivore stories
Mayfair, 1936
Peach Women of Aa’A
The Mail and Empire, 1936
The Top Hat Grill
Part Nine
The laundry
The ashtray
The man with his head on fire
The Water Nixie
The chestnut tree
Part Ten
Lizard Men of Xenor
Mayfair, 1937
Letter from Bella Vista
The tower
The Globe and Mail, 1937
Union Station
Part Eleven
The cubicle
The kitten
Beautiful view
Brightly shone the moon
Betty’s Luncheonette
The message
Part Twelve
The Globe and Mail, 1938
Mayfair, 1939
The Be rage Room
Yellow curtains
The telegram
The destruction of Sakiel-Norn
Part Thirteen
Gloves
Home fires
Diana Sweets
Escarpment
Part Fourteen
The golden lock
Victory comes and goes
The heap of rubble
Part Fifteen
The Blind Assassin, Epilogue: The other hand
The Port Ticonderoga Herald and Banner, 1999
The Threshold
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