The Black Heart

'The Black Heart' is a collection of Patrick O'Leary's stories. Here you will find aliens and apocalypses, God and Satan, witches and geishas, madonnas and mutes, birds and bears, zoos and prisons, weeping robots and knights who work in hardware, pardons and orgasms, men without legs and aliens without hearts.

The contents of this book are:

- Introduction: Patrick O'Leary's Muffled Prayers by James Morrow

- Author's Introduction: The Bears in the Moat

- The Cane

- Catching a Dream

- Yo-Yo, Stradivarius Me

- The Black Heart

- The Dreaming Bird

- The Whole Schmear

- What Mattered Was Sleep

- The Witch’s Hand

- The Verge of a Pucker

- The Me After the Rock

- The Flying Child

- The Wooden Leg

- The Bearing of Light

- The Oldest Man on Earth