Includes bibliographical references (pages 726-730).

Paz Marquez-Benitez / Dead stars

Loreto Paras-Sulit / The bolo

Paz Latorena / Desire

Arturo B. Rotor / Zita

Jose Garcia Villa / Footnote to youth

Juan Cabreros Laya / Conservation

Manuel E. Arguilla / How my brother Leon brought home a wife

Lina Flor / Five snapshots

Alfredo E. Litiatco / It isn't just horses

Francisco Arcellana / The mats

Ibrahim A. Jubaira / Blue blood of the big Astana

Lydia Villanueva Arguilla / Yours, faithfully

Carlos Bulosan / My father goes to court

Nick Joaquin / The summer solstice

D. Paulo Dizon / The boarding house

Aida Rivera-Ford / The chieftest mourner

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil / Pattern

Alejandro R. Roces / My brother's peculiar chicken

Estrella Alfon / Magnificence

Kerima Polotan-Tuvera / The virgin

N.V.M. Gonzalez / Lupo and the river

Amador T. Daguio / Wedding dance

F. Sionil Jose / The God stealer

Gregorio C. Brillantes / Faith, love, time and Dr. Lazaro

Bienvenido N. Santos / The day the dancers came

Gilda Cordero-Fernando / A wilderness of sweets

Lilia Pablo Amansec / Lover boy

Tita Lacambra-Ayala / Everything

Edilberto K. Tiempo / Kulisising hari

Edith L. Tiempo / Un bel di

Resil B. Mojares / Ark

Ines Taccad Cammayo / People of consequence

Cirilo F. Bautista / Ritual

Lina Espina Moore / The human resources

Luning Bonifacio-Ira / Tell me who cleft the devil's foot

Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas / Sunday morning

Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr. / Oldtimer

Ninotchka Rosca / The goddess

Mig Alvarez Enriquez / The white horse of Alih

Susan S. Lara / The reprieve

Paulino Lim. Jr. / The homecoming

Rosario Cruz-Lucero / Family rites

Connie Jan Maraan / Ghost

Jessica Zafra / Portents

Alfred A. Yuson / The music child

Charlson Ong / How my cousin Manuel brought home a wife

Marianne Villanueva / Lizard

Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo / The painting

Jaime An Lim / The axolotl colony

Lakambini Sitoy / Touch