Vignettes. Readings: Colette: The other wife"; Isaac Babel: "An incident on the Nevsky Prospekt"
Character sketches. Readings: L. E. Leone: "The argument for a shotgun"; Josefina Estrada: "The extravagant behavior of the naked woman"
Letters. Readings: Yasunari Kawabata: "Canaries"; Phil Karasik: "Mickey the dog phones home"
Diary entries. Readings: Will Stanton: "Barney"; Mark Budman: "The diary of a salaryman"
Lists. Readings: Sei Shonagon: "Annoying things"; Steve Martin: "Disgruntled former lexicographer"
Fables. Readings: Anonymous: Untitled; Raphael Dagold: "The two rats and the BB gun"
Anecdotes. Reading: The peasant and the genie
Prose poems. Readings: Yusef Komunyakaa: "Nude interrogation"; Len Kuntz: "Story problems"
Soliloquies, rants, riffs, and themes. Readings: Christine Byl: "Hey, Jess McCafferty"; John Edgar Wideman: "Witness"
Perfect miniatures. Readings: John Collier: "The chaser"; Jeffrey Whitmore: "A bedtime story"
Intermission: cutting down. Bruce Taylor: "Exercise"
Surrealism. Readings: Richard Brautigan: "A need for gardens"; Donald Barthelme: "The baby"
What if? Readings: Wayland Hilton-Young: "The choice"; Dicky Murphy: "The magician's umbrella"
Genre. Readings: RoxaneGay: "The mistress of baby breath"; Tara Orchard: "My love"
Setting. Readings: Bharati Mukherjee: "Courtly vision"; Alice Walker: "The flowers"
Twists. Readings: Luisa Valenzuela: "Vision out of the corner of one eye"; Saki: "The open window"
Viewpoints. Readings: Robert Schipits: "Dialogue between two teenagers, one interested in cars and one not"; Ryan Ridge: "Shaky hands & all"
Mass compression. Readings: Bruce Holland Rogers: "Dinosaur"; Susan O'Neill: "Memento mori"
Metafiction. Readings: Ptim Callan: "Story"; Jorge Luis Borges: "Borges and I"
Vanishing point. Readings: Merilee Faber: "We came around the corner"; Dean Clayton Edwards: "It was pretending"; Davian Aw: "She raised the glass"; Augusto Monterroso: "The dinosaur"