Children of the night : the best short stories by black writers : 1967 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…The tale of Gorgik / Samuel Delany -- Meditations on history / Sherley Anne Williams -- Damballah / John Edgar Wideman -- Louisiana : 1850 / Jewelle Gomez -- Remember him a outlaw / Alexis DeVeaux -- Mother / Andrea Lee -- Long distances / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- After dreaming of President Johnson / Howard Gordon -- Neighbors / Diana Oliver -- The witness / Ann Petry -- Steady going up / Maya Angelou -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- Second-Hand man / Rita Dove -- Crusader rabbit / Jess Mowry -- Silences / Helen Elaine Lee -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- The diary of an african nun / Alice Walker -- In a house of Wooden Monkeys / Shay Youngblood -- Young reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin -- By the way of morning fire / Michael Weaver -- China / Charles Johnson -- Blackness / Jamaica Kincaid -- Lost in the city / Edward P. …”