Apple and stone / Katherine Sturtevant -- Firewood / Marisha Chamberlain -- The doe / Molly Gloss -- There are colors / Carol Orlock -- New world / Julia Alvarez -- It is you, my sister, who must be protected / Cherríe Moraga -- White-out / Phyllis Wolf -- The fifth floor - 1967 / Beth Brant -- Crow / Linda Hogan -- Loving Leo / Sandra Scofield -- Luisa in Realityland (excerpts) / Claribel Alegría -- Falling off the Matterhorn / Shirley Sikes -- Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto -- Siko / Marianne Villanueva -- Native daughter / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Paths upon water / Tahira Naqvi --Sanctuary / Amy Jones (Sedivy) -- The transforming eye / Kathleen Alcalá -- Lives of a long-haired lesbian : four elemental narrations / Ruthann Robson -- Killing color / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- Young mother / Maria Luisa Puga -- Happy mourning / Rosa Margot Ochoa -- We have always stashed our bones in the closet / Aiyana Trotter -- Walking away / Barbara Branscomb -- Sheets / Beth Bosworth -- Esther, or The world turned upside down / Alicia Ostriker -- A thing about Italy / Viki Radden -- Nighthawks / Carolyn Barbier -- Sarah's T-bird / Kim Silveira Wolterbeek -- Sister Zita / Terese Martineau -- Her wild American self / M. Evelina Galang -- Gypsies in the place of pain / Hollis Seamon -- River / Dee Axelrod -- Afterward / Rebecca Lavine -- The wings / Kristin King -- Scissors girl / Margaret Willey -- A line of cutting women / Rita Marie Nibasa.