Introduction / by Ed Park
The disappearance of Ford Beckman / by Michael Paul Mason
The end of the story / by Zach Baron
Travels with my ex / by Susan Straight
Sweatpants in Paradise / by Molly Young
A glimpse of unplumbed depths / by Annie Julia Wyman
The death of a civil servant / by Lev Grossman
Absent things as if they are present / by Jeannie Vanasco
Virginia Mountain scream queen / by Rebecca Taylor
Dark family / by Sara Gran and Megan Abbott
Watching 'Shrek' in Tehran / by Brian T. Edwards
If he hollers let him go / by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Mithradates of Fond du Lac / by Kent Russell
But never a lovely so real / by Colin Asher
How to scrutinize a beaver / by Rachel Poliquin
The unresilient / by Francisco Goldman
How to explore like a real Victorian adventurer / by Monte Reel
The immortal horizon / by Leslie Jamison
The fickle need of fate / by Paul Collins
My patron / by Nick Hornby.