Henry James, The Pupil -- Ronald Firbanck, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli -- E.M. Forster, Dr Woolacott -- Denton Welch, When I Was Thirteen -- Christopher Isherwood, Mr Lancaster -- Alfred Chester, In Praise of Vespasian -- William Burroughs, The Wild Boys -- Gore Vidal, Pages from an Abandoned Journal -- Tennessee Williams, Two on a Party -- Paul Bowles, Pages from Cold Point -- James Purdy, Dawn -- James Baldwin, from Just Above My Head -- Tom Wakefield, Darts -- Simon Burt, Good Fortune -- Paul Bailey, from Trespasses -- David Plante, The Secret of the Gentiles -- Edmund White, Skinned Alive -- Andrew Holleran, Sunday Morning: Key West -- Armistead Maupin, Suddenly Home -- David Malouf, Southern Skies -- Adam Mars-Jones, The Changes of Those Terrible Years -- Alan Hollinghurst, from The Swimming-Pool Library -- Patrick Gale, The List -- Timothy Ireland, from The Novice -- Neil Bartlett, Three Wedding Ceremonies -- David Leavitt, When You Grow to Adultery -- William Haywood Henderson, from Native -- Robert Gluck, Denny Smith -- James M Estep, BM -- Lev Raphael, Another Life -- Dennis Cooper, My Mark -- Allan Gurganus, Forced Use.