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http://www.doderer-gesellschaft.org/english/updates/stories_kling.html Table of contents Introduction and Acknowledgements Foreword: "Poetic Power" or "Utter Parochialism"? Short, Shorter And Shortest Stories * The Bay of Naples * In the Maze * A Confident Instinct * Military Burial of a Love * The Tattooed Lady * Involuntary Accomplice * Aimée * A Snow Storm * Bishop Gone Berserk * A Person Made of Porcelain * Eight Attacks of Rage * Nine Short Short Stories * The Family's Welfare * The Harmhog * The Ogre * A Summer Morning * Sonatina * Kickbury * The Buried Talent * Black Magic * Moving to the Garden District * Bed and Beard * The Bookstore Owner * A Dance in the Café Scratchki, or Jampacked with Juveniles * Tale Tales * The Torture of the Little Leather Pouches * A Second Kratki-Baschik * Two Lies, or Classical Tragedy in a Village * The Last Adventure: A Tale of Knighthood * Death of a Lady in Summer * Under Black Stars Afterword: The Adventure of Virtue