Raymond's Run Toni Cade Bambara Blackout Roger Mais Shabine Hazel Simmons-McDonald Blood Brothers John Wickham Buried with Science John T. Gilmore Emma Carolyn Cole Two Boys Named Basil Mark McWatt8 Victory and the Blight Earl Lovelace Child of Darkening Humour Noel D. Williams The Man of the House Frank O'Connor The Day the World Almost Came to an End Pearl Crayton It's Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White Barbara Jenkins The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream Olive Senior Uncle Umberto's Slippers Mark McWatt The Creek Subraj Singh Georgia and Them There United States Velma Pollard Shoes for the Dead Kei Miller The Girl Who Can Ama Ata Aidoo The Pain Tree Olive Senior Mint Tea Christine Craig To Da-Duh, in Memoriam Paule Marshall Savi's Trial Hazel Simmons-McDonald Mom Luby and the Social Worker Kristin Hunter Berry Langston Hughes The Two Grandmothers Olive Senior What is a short story? Notes and questions Glossary of terms Acknowledgements.