The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar Book

	Introduction
	The Lions	3
	The She-Bears	4
	Rabbits	7
	The Cow	10
	The Dog	13
	Shazam	16
	The Fishing Tournament	20
	We Gunmen Mustn't Feel Pity	22
	Blind Man and Amigo Gedeao Alongside the Highway	24
	The Pause	27
	Of Cannibals	30
	The Aging Marx	32
	Leo	40
	A House	42
	The Phantom Train	46
	The Day When We Killed James Cagney	47
	Vegetable Kingdom	50
	Navigation Chart	52
	Ecology	56
	Before Making the Investment	58
	Communication	62
	Hello! Hello!	63
	Dr. Shylock	64
	The Ballad of the False Messiah	69
	Don't Release the Cataracts	76
	New Year, New Life	79
	The Scalp	82
	The Spider	86
	Agenda of Executive Jorge T. Flacks for Judgment Day	88
	Eating Paper	90
	The Evidence	92
	The Offerings of Dalila Store	100
	The Short-Story Writers	104
	Quick, Quick	151
	The Price of the Living Steer	163
	Youth Is an Eternal Treasure	165
	Grand Prize	167
	Friends	171
	It's Time to Fall	173
	The Thief	178
	Requiem	180
	Images	183
	The Picnic	185
	Rest in Peace	190
	Festive Dawn	194
	Skinny Enough to Become a Kite	196
	Profile of the Hen of the Golden Eggs as She Lay Dying	199
	Capital Punishment	206
	The Last One	209
	The Riddle	210
	The Dream	211
	The Shadow	212
	Stories of the Tremulous Earth	214
	The Prophets of Benjamin Bok	225
	Ah, Mommy Dear	235
	Good Night, Love	239
	The Apex of the Pyramid	245
	A Porto Alegre Story	249
	The Noises in the Attic	253
	At the Figtree Retreat	257
	The Secret Tourists	261
	Milton and His Competitor	263
	The Soothsayer	264
	A Vacancy	266
	In a State of Coma	269
	The Dwarf in the Television Set	284
	The Memoirs of a Researcher	288
	The Loves of a Ventriloquist	297
	The Peal of Bells at Christmas	302
	The Phantom Ship	306
	The Enigmatic Eye	311
	Inside My Dirty Head-The Holocaust	314
	Five Anarchists	318
	Among the Wise Men	321
	The Conspiracy	322
	The Prodigal Uncle	325
	Root Canal Treatment	328
	The Interpreter	338
	Atlas	342
	A Brief History of Capitalism	346
	A Public Act	350
	Burning Angels	352
	Free Topics	353
	The Password	355
	The Emissary	361
	The Candidate	362
	General Delivery	365
	In the Submarine Restaurant	367
	Peace and War	369
	The Blank	372
	Many Many Meters Above Good and Evil	374
	Prognoses	377
	Real Estate Transactions	379
	Life and Death of a Terrorist	381
	Resurrection	383
	Genesis	385
	The Plagues	389
	Don't Think About It, Jorge	404
	Van Gogh's Ear	405
	The Fragment	408
	The Decision Tree	409
	Jigsaw Puzzles	410
	The March of the Sun in the Temperate Regions	411
	The Diary of a Lentil Eater	428
	Misereor	432
	The Calligraphers' Union	437
	French Current Events	444
	A Job for the Angel of Death	447
	The Right Time	449
	The Public Enemy	451
	The Message	454
	Unpublished Works	454
	A Minute of Silence	458
	The Prince	459
	The Problem	460
	In the World of Letters	461
	Sensitive Skin	462
	The Surprise	464
	The Winner: An Alternative View	465
	Memoirs of an Anorexic	466
	Epilogue - In the Tribe of the Short-Story Writers: A Deposition	471