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 Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction by Rosellen Brown Russell Banks - Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story Donald Barthelme - The School Rick Bass - The Hermit's Story Richard Bausch - The Fireman's Wife Charles Baxter - The Disappeared Amy Bloom - Silver Water T. C. Boyle - Caviar Kevin Brockmeier - The Ceiling Robert Olen Butler - Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot Sandra Cisneros - Never Marry a Mexican Peter Ho Davies - Relief Janet Desaulniers - After Rosa Parks Junot Diaz - Nilda Anthony Doerr - The Caretaker Stuart Dybek - We Didn't Deborah Eisenberg - Twilight of the Superheroes Richard Ford - Communist Mary Gaitskill - Tiny, Smiling Daddy Dagoberto Gilb - Winners on the Pass Line Ron Hansen - Wickedness A. M. Homes - A Real Doll Mary Hood - How Far She Went Denis Johnson - Car Crash While Hitchhiking Edward P. Jones - Marie Thom Jones - The Pugilist at Rest Jamaica Kincaid - Girl Jhumpa Lahiri - A Temporary Matter David Leavitt - Territory Kelly Link - Stone Animals Reginald McKnight - The Kind of Light Th at Shines on Texas David Means - The Secret Goldfish Susan Minot - Lust Rick Moody  - Boys Bharati Mukherjee - The Management of Grief Antonya Nelson - Female Trouble Joyce Carol Oates - The Translation Tim O'Brien  - The Things They Carried Daniel Orozco - Orientation Julie Orringer - Pilgrims ZZ Packer - Brownies E. Annie Proulx  - The Half-Skinned Steer Stacey Richter - The Cavemen in the Hedges George Saunders - Sea Oak Joan Silber - My Shape Leslie Marmon Silko - Tony's Story Susan Sontag - The Way We Live Now Amy Tan - Two Kinds Melanie Rae Thon - Xmas, Jamaica Plain Alice Walker - Nineteen Fifty-five Steve Yarbrough - The Rest of Her Life Permissions