Letters / Jason D. Polan, Alex Ryan Bauer, Kathryn Davis, Ben Greenman, and José Luís Peixoto
Mr. Hope / Lynn Coady
What the ocean eats / Kawai Strong Washburn
Eight stories : Swan dive ; Brisbane ; House ; Adeline ; Ern Kiley's house ; Fire fable ; Grandfather bait ; In the mornings we would sometimes hear him singing / Josephine Rowe
Fingerprints / Justin Bigos
Steps / Mona Simpson
The sea and the glass : [an excerpt from The parallel apartments] / Bill Cotter
Selected hooey : [an excerpt from A load of hooey] : Martin Luther King Jr.'s worst speech ever ; Politician's promise ; Hitler dinner party : a play ; My manifesto / Bob Odenkirk
My character / Thomas McGuane
Two stories : The sorcerer's apprentice ; The lie / Shirley Jackson.