Contents
Prologue: Dauncy 1973
Miracelle Loving Knoxville 1993
1 Spirits and the Two-Step at Dill’s Five-and-Dime
Ruby Loving Radiance 1941–1957
2 Then and There
Miracelle Loving Knoxville 1993
3 Willy’s Wonderama
Ruby Loving Radiance 1957
4 Shadow Man
Miracelle Loving Knoxville 1993
5 A Mirror and Some Songs
Ruby Loving Radiance 1957–1958
6 World, Come Open
Miracelle Loving Knoxville 1993
7 A Tattoo and Afterwards
8 Subterranean Worlds
Ruby Loving Willette 1958–1960
9 Thursday Afternoons
Miracelle Loving Towns along the Way 1993
10 My Own Sweet Girl
11 The Radiance Midnighters
12 Fiddling in the Dark
13 The First, Last Place
14 Night, and Then
Russell Wallen Wellsprings 1957
15 Flights above the Earth
Miracelle Loving Smyte 1993
16 Rooms to Let
17 At the Black Cat
18 End of the Season
Della Wallen Wellsprings 1944–1968
19 The Sheer Weight of the World
Miracelle Loving Smyte 1993
20 Moon over the Black Cat
21 Make the World Go Away
22 Night Adventures
Russell Wallen Oceanus 1970
23 Till Nothing at All
Miracelle Loving Smyte 1993
24 The Stories Our Bodies Tell
Ruby Loving Fortune Teller’s Daughter 1967–1972
25 A Taste like Steel
Miracelle Loving Smyte 1993
26 Last Call
Della Wallen Smyte 1993
27 What It Takes to Replace a Heart
Russell Wallen Smyte 1993
28 Hold Me until Morning
Ruby Loving Dauncy 1973
29 That Night
Miracelle Loving Smyte 1993
30 The Sound of Glass Breaking
31 Wake
Miracelle Loving Knoxville 1994
32 The Wonder in Wonderama
Acknowledgments