Collected Stories. Carol Shields

      

       The Collected Stories

       CAROL SHIELDS

      For Emma and Alden

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Introduction By Margaret Atwood

       Segue

       Various Miracles

       Various Miracles

       Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass

Accidents

Sailors Lost at Sea

Purple Blooms

Flitting Behavior

Pardon

Words

Poaching

Scenes

Fragility

The Metaphor Is Dead—Pass It On

A Wood (with Anne Giardini)

       Love so Fleeting, Love so Fine

       Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls

       Invitations

       Taking the Train

       Home

       The Journal

       Salt

       Others

       The Orange Fish

       The Orange Fish

       Chemistry

       Hazel

       Today Is the Day

       Hinterland

       Block Out

       Collision

       Good Manners

       Times of Sickness and Health

       Family Secrets

       Fuel for the Fire

       Milk Bread Beer Ice

       Dressing Up for the Carnival

       Dressing Up for the Carnival

       A Scarf

       Weather

       Flatties: Their Various Forms and Uses

       Dying for Love

       Ilk

       Stop!

       Mirrors

       The Harp

       Our Men and Women

       Keys

       Absence

       Windows

       Reportage

       Edith-Esther

       New Music

       Soup du Jour

       Invention

       Death of an Artist

       The Next Best Kiss