Note to biographers regarding famous author Flannery O'Connor / Mary Helen Stefaniak -- Sheep / Thomas H. McNeely -- In the doorway of Rhee's Jazz Joint / D. Winston Brown -- Dancing with the one-armed gal / Tim Gautreaux -- Box / A. Manette Ansay -- Best friend / Chris Offutt -- Heavy metal / Robert Olen Butler -- My hand is just fine where it is / William Gay -- Mr. Puniverse / Wendy Brenner -- Thing with Willie / Karen Sagstetter -- Good-hearted woman / Melanie Sumner -- Widow / Romulus Linney -- He's at the office / Allan Gurganus -- Wave / John Holman -- Debra's flap and snap / Clyde Edgerton -- Circus house / Cathy Day -- Just married / Tony Earley -- Rhonda and her children / Christopher Miner -- Forgetting the end of the world / R.H.W. Dillard -- How to tell a story / Margo Rabb.