TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction PART I: BRING IT ON HOME"White Trash" JEROME CHARYN (Claremont/Concourse)"Gold Mountain" TERRENCE CHENG (Lehman College)"Hey, Girlie" JOANNE DOBSON (Sedgwick Avenue)"The Woman Who Hated the Bronx" RITA LAKIN (Elder Avenue) PART II: IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT"Rude Awakening" LAWRENCE BLOCK (Riverdale)"Burnout" SUZANNE CHAZIN (Jerome Avenue)"The Cheers Like Waves" KEVIN BAKER (Yankee Stadium)"Jaguar" ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ, JR. (South Bronx) PART III: ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT"Early Fall" STEVEN TORRES (Hunts Point)"Hothouse" S.J. ROZAN (Botanical Garden)"Lost and Found" THOMAS BENTIL (Rikers Island)"Look What Love Is Doing to Me" MARLON JAMES (Williamsbridge) PART IV: THE WANDERER"Home Sweet Home" SANDRA KITT (City Island)"A Visit to St. Nick's" ROBERT J. HUGHES (Fordham Road)"Numbers Up" MILES MARSHALL LEWIS (Baychester)"The Big Five" JOSEPH WALLACE (Bronx Zoo) PART V: ALL SHOOK UP"Ernie K.'s Gelding" ED DEE (Van Cortlandt Park)"The Prince of Arthur Avenue" PATRICK W. PICCIARELLI (Arthur Avenue)"You Want I Should Whack Monkey Boy?" THOMAS ADCOCK (Courthouse)SJ Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx and is a life-long New Yorker. She's the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand alones Absent Friends and In This Rain (forthcoming, Delacorte Jan. 2007). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for Best Novel.