The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
The burning house / Ann Beattie
Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason
Beg, sl, tog, inc, cont, rep / Amy Hempel
Light can be both wave and particle / Ellen Gilchrist
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog / Stephanie Vaughn
Hairball / Margaret Atwood
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros
Love, forever / Joyce Carol Oates
Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid
The littoral zone / Andrea Barnett
Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill
Dance in America / Lorrie Moore
Ma, a memoir / Lynn Freed
A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri
Floating bridge / Alice Munro
Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer
The passenger / Marisa Silver
The shawl / Louise Erdrich
The birthday present / Andrea Lee
My father addresses me on the facts of old age / Grace Paley.