Italian education / Karen Joy Fowler

Into the fjord / Rebecca Dinerstein

Alone in Iceland / Jane Smiley

Discovering fear in Baja / Avi Duckor-Jones

Awkward situations / Catherine Lacey

My Mississippi / Porochista Khakpour

Hunting nanda / DBC Pierre

Swami sand castle / Francine Prose

Kazakh flash mob 2050! / Christina Nichol

And the world laughs with you / Stefan Merrill Block

Nothing happened / Jack Livings

Road to Riyadh / Dave Eggers

Road to lost places / Fiona Kidman

How I evaded arrest on a train platform (somewhere in the north of England) / M. J. Hyland

Hotel whose name we're not going to mention in this story / Steven Hall

Sleepless in Samoa / Mandy Sayer.