Introduction / Bill Henderson --
What has irony done for us lately / Pam Houston --
The tornado auction / Karen Russell --
Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland --
The tell-tale heart / Anthony Marra --
The armed letter writers / Olufunke Ogundimu --
Singular dream / Mary Ruefle --
What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? / J.M. Holmes --
Lupinski / Myron Taube --
Murder tourism in middle America / Justin St. Germain --
The great meal / Jung Hae Chae --
The storm / Michael Collier --
Kylie wears balmain / Sarah Resnick --
Secrets deep in tiger forests / Poe Ballantine --
Barbie Chang wants to be someone / Victoria Chang --
A fish in the tree / John Landretti --
All politics / Jessica Burstein --
All politics / Jessica Burstein --
My hobby needed a hobby / Dana Roeser --
Spectral evidence / Victor Lavalle --
I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Voye Watkins --
Like someone asleep in a cinema / Mary Jo Bang --
The bar beach show / Olabajo Dada --
Parachute / Maggie Smith --
A country scene / Rick Moody --
The imagination resettlement program / Eli Barrett --
Christian soldiers / Hal Crowther --
No time like the present / Gabriel Brownstein --
Kernals / David J. Rothman --
A flock, a seige, a murmuration / Su-Yee Lin --
Bloody mary! bloody mary! bloody mary! / Andrew Mitchell --
The clearing / Allison Adair --
Guerrilla Marketing / Sanjay Agnihotri --
The wonder of the look on her face / Brian Doyle --
UDFJ-39546284 / Rick Barot --
Taco night / Julie Hecht --
I figure / Kim Chinquee --
Faith for my father circa 1980 / Erik Campbell --
The whitest girl / Brenda Peynado --
The hunter / Gabriel Daniel Solis --
One definition of time / Albert Goldbarth --
The wall / Robert Coover --
Iraq good / Hugh Martin --
Acceptance speech / David Naimon --
I kept getting books about birds / Catherine Pierce --
Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde --
Wonder days / Nomi Stone --
The white road / Daniel Tobin --
A suburban weekend / Lisa Taddeo --
Autism screening questionnaire : speech and language delay / Oliver De La Paz --
Do I look sick to you? / C. J. Hribal --
Field theories / Samiya Bashir --
How do you raise a black child? / Cortney Lamar Charleston --
Pathetic fallacy / Emilia Phillips --
Quarry / Melissa Stein --
PEDAL, PEDAL, PEDAL / Heather Sellers --
KRA-DIN / Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah --
Blue coming / Thylias Moss --
Codeswitch decomposing into Lil Wayne Lyric / Julian Randall --
Transition : the renaming of hope / Molly Cooney --
Just the one episode / John Ashbery --
Monomoy / Carl Phillips --
From "interruptive" / Phillip Williams --
Brace yourself / Leslie Jill Patterson --
Powder house / Molly Gallentine.
