Letters / Wajahat Ali, Nick Jaina, Robin Terrell, Kimberly Harrington, Mary Miller, Rick Moody, Will Butler, Ariel S. Winter --
Selected excerpts from Gary Burden's autobiography Nobody knows / [Gary Burden] --
Babysitter / Emily Raboteau --
The lottery, redux / Megan Mayhew Bergman --
The tell-tale heart / Anthony Marra --
Falling faintly / Jess Walter --
Men on bikes / Roxane Gay --
Company / Namwali Serpell --
And so on / Kiese Laymon --
If you're happy and you know it / Meg Wolitzer --
The Argentine ant / T.C. Boyle --
One hour, every seven years / Alice Sola Kim --
The yellow wallpaper / Tom Drury --
Cover poems. "Having a Coke with you" / Rebecca Lindenberg ; "Poem for Keats" / Matthew Zapruder ; "A nickel on top of a penny" / Stephen Burt ; "The metaphor program" / Brian Turner ; "Roofers" / Stephen Burt ; "Poem on the occasion of a weekly staff meeting" / Matthew Zapruder ; "Suspense" / Stephen Burt --
A monologue. "Second wonder" / Kevin Moffett --
An excerpt. Sorry to disrupt the peace" / Patty Yumi Cottrell.