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This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people perceive a particular character, and how that character responds.
- Chapters
- Hill, The
- Hod Putt
- Ollie McGee
- Fletcher McGee
- Robert Fulton Tanner
- Cassius Hueffer
- Serepta Mason
- Amanda Barker
- Constance Hately
- Chase Henry
- Harry Carey Goodhue
- Judge Somers
- Kinsey Keene
- Benjamin Pantier
- Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
- Reuben Pantier
- Emily Sparks
- Trainor, the Druggist
- Daisy Fraser
- Benjamin Fraser
- Minerva Jones
- Indignation Jones
- Doctor Meyers
- Mrs. Meyers
- Butch Weldy
- Knowlt Hoheimer
- Lydia Puckett
- Frank Drummer
- Hare Drummer
- Conrad Siever
- Doc Hill
- Andy the Night-Watch
- Sarah Brown
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Flossie Cabanis
- Julia Miller
- Johnnie Sayre
- Charlie French
- Zenas Witt
- Theodore the Poet
- Town Marshal, The
- Jack McGuire
- Dorcas Gustine
- Nicholas Bindle
- Jacob Goodpasture
- Harold Arnett
- Margaret Fuller Slack
- George Trimble
- Dr. Siegfried Iseman
- Ace Shaw
- Lois Spears
- Justice Arnett
- Willard Fluke
- Aner Clute
- Lucius Atherton
- Homer Clapp
- Deacon Taylor
- Sam Hookey
- Cooney Potter
- Fiddler Jones
- Nellie Clark
- Louise Smith
- Herbert Marshall
- George Gray
- Hon. Henry Bennett
- Griffy the Cooper
- Sexsmith the Dentist
- A. D. Blood
- Robert Southey
- Dora Williams
- Mrs. Williams
- William and Emily
- Circuit Judge, The
- Blind Jack
- John Horace Burleson
- Nancy Knapp
- Barry Holden
- State's Attorney Fallas
- Wendell P. Bloyd
- Francis Turner
- Franklin Jones
- John M. Church
- Russian Sonia
- Isa Nutter
- Barney Hainsfeather
- Petit, the Poet
- Pauline Barrett
- Mrs. Charles Bliss
- Mrs. George Reece
- Rev. Lemuel Wiley
- Thomas Ross, Jr.
- Rev. Abner Peet
- Jefferson Howard
- Judge Selah Lively
- Albert Schirding
- Jonas Keene
- Eugenia Todd
- Yee Bow
- Washington McNeely
- Paul McNeely
- Mary McNeely
- Daniel M'Cumber
- Georgine Sand Miner
- Thomas Rhodes
- Ida Chicken
- Penniwit, the Artist
- Jim Brown
- Robert Davidson
- Elsa Wertman
- Hamilton Greene
- Ernest Hyde
- Roger Heston
- Amos Sibley
- Mrs. Sibley
- Adam Weirauch
- Ezra Bartlett
- Amelia Garrick
- John Hancock Otis
- Anthony Findlay
- John Cabanis
- Unknown, The
- Alexander Throckmorton
- Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)
- Widow McFarlane
- Carl Hamblin
- Editor Whedon
- Eugene Carman
- Clarence Fawcett
- W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
- Professor Newcomer
- Ralph Rhodes
- Mickey M'Grew
- Rosie Roberts
- Oscar Hummel
- Roscoe Purkapile
- Mrs. Purkapile
- Josiah Tompkins
- Mrs. Kessler
- Harmon Whitney
- Bert Kessler
- Lambert Hutchins
- Lillian Stewart
- Hortense Robbins
- Batterton Dobyns
- Jacob Godbey
- Walter Simmons
- Tom Beatty
- Roy Butler
- Searcy Foote
- Edmund Pollard
- Thomas Trevelyan
- Percival Sharp
- Hiram Scates
- Peleg Poague
- Jeduthan Hawley
- Abel Melveny
- Oaks Tutt
- Elliott Hawkins
- Voltaire Johnson
- English Thornton
- Enoch Dunlap
- Ida Frickey
- Seth Compton
- Felix Schmidt
- Schroeder the Fisherman
- Richard Bone
- Silas Dement
- Dillard Sissman
- Jonathan Houghton
- E. C. Culbertson
- Shack Dye
- Hildrup Tubbs
- Henry Tripp
- Granville Calhoun
- Henry C. Calhoun
- Alfred Moir
- Perry Zoll
- Dippold the Optician
- Magrady Graham
- Archibald Higbie
- Tom Merritt
- Mrs. Merritt
- Elmer Karr
- Elizabeth Childers
- Edith Conant
- Charles Webster
- Father Malloy
- Ami Green
- Calvin Campbell
- Henry Layton
- Harlan Sewall
- Ippolit Konovaloff
- Henry Phipps
- Harry Wilmans
- John Wasson
- Many Soldiers
- Godwin James
- Lyman King
- Caroline Branson
- Anne Rutledge
- Hamlet Micure
- Mabel Osborne
- William H. Herndon
- Rebecca Wasson
- Rutherford McDowell
- Hannah Armstrong
- Lucinda Matlock
- Davis Matlock
- Herman Altman
- Jennie M'Grew
- Columbus Cheney
- Wallace Ferguson
- Maria Bateson
- Tennessee Claflin Shope
- Plymouth Rock Joe
- Imanuel Ehrenhardt
- Samuel Gardner
- Dow Kritt
- William Jones
- William Goode
- J. Milton Miles
- Faith Matheny
- Scholfield Huxley
- Willie Metcalf
- Willie Pennington
- Village Atheist, The
- John Ballard
- Julian Scott
- Alfonso Churchill
- Zilpha Marsh
- James Garber
- Lydia Humphrey
- Le Roy Goldman
- Gustav Richter
- Arlo Will
- Captain Orlando Killion
- Jeremy Carlisle
- Joseph Dixon
- Judson Stoddard
- Russell Kincaid
- Aaron Hatfield
- Isaiah Beethoven
- Elijah Browning
- Webster Ford
- Spooniad, The
- Epilogue, The