Come and go -- There's a snake in the grass -- Coming of age in Xania -- No object in mind -- Myself as a menu -- Hung up -- Contingencies -- Maybe -- Aka Mergatroyde -- Pleasure isn't a pretty picture -- A dead summer -- My time, my side -- More sex -- Other movies -- Absence makes the heart -- Hold me (9 stories) -- Living with contradictions -- That's how wrong my love is -- Dead talk -- This is not it -- Madame Realism's torch song -- A Greek story -- Madame Realism's conscience -- Hello and goodbye -- Boots and remorse -- On the small act of leaving the house -- The substitute -- A simple idea -- Tiny struggles -- The undiagnosed -- Playing hurt -- Diary of a masochist -- Angela and Sal -- Future prosthetic@? -- The original impulse -- The shadow of a doubt -- What she could do -- Dear Ollie -- The dead live longer -- Five short stories -- Thrilled to death.