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The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie -- Lobster night / Russell Banks -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- 1-900 / Richard Bausch -- Poor devil / Charles Baxter -- Lavande / Ann Beattie -- O. / Aimee Bender -- Mercy / Pinckney Benedict -- The love of my life / T.C. Boyle -- The identity club / Richard Burgin -- The son of the wolfman / Michael Chabon -- Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- Aurora / Junot Díaz -- A house on the Plains / E.L. Doctorow -- Death of the right fielder / Stuart Dybek -- The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Disaster stamps of Pluto / Louise Erdrich -- Reunion / Richard Ford -- Rêve haitien / Ben Fountain -- The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill -- The paperhanger / William Gay -- City visit / Adam Haslett -- To those of you who missed your connecting flights out of O'Hare / Amy Hempel -- Emergency / Denis Johnson -- Double exposure / Greg Johnson -- Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine / Matthew Klam -- Baboons / Sheila Kohler -- Once in a lifetime / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Some terpsichore / Elizabeth McCracken -- Cowboy / Thomas McGuane -- Sault Ste. Marie / David Means -- Ranch girl / Maile Meloy -- The new automaton theater / Steven Millhauser -- Paper losses / Lorrie Moore -- Stitches / Antonya Nelson -- Land. ll / Joyce Carol Oates -- On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien -- The escort / Chuck Palahniuk -- People in hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx -- The red bow / George Saunders -- Leslie and Sam / Douglas Unger -- The brown chest / John Updike -- Incarnations of burned children / David Foster Wallace -- Cinnamon skin / Edmund White -- Who invented the jump shot / John Edgar Wideman -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wol