The siege at Whale Cay from The Kenyon Review / Megan Mayhew Bergman --
Fingerprints from McSweeney's Quarterly / Justin Bigos --
Happy endings from New Ohio Review / Kevin Canty --
Moving on from Tin House / Diane Cook --
Bride from Conjunctions / Julia Elliott --
The big cat from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich --
You'll apologize if you have to from Crazyhorse / Ben Fowlkes --
The fugue from Alaska quarterly review / Arna Bontemps Hemenway --
The largesse of the sea maiden from The New Yorker / Denis Johnson --
M & L from West Branch / Sarah Kokernot --
Jack, July from the New Yorker / Victor Lodato --
Sh'khol from Zoetrope: All-story / Colum McCann --
Thunderstruck from StoryQuarterly / Elizabeth McCracken --
Motherlode from the New Yorker / Thomas McGuane --
Madame Lazarus from the New Yorker / Maile Meloy --
Kavitha and Mustafa from Nimrod / Shobha Rao --
About my aunt from Tin House / Joan Silber --
North from One Story / Aria Beth Sloss --
Unsafe at any speed from New England Review / Laura Lee Smith --
Mr. Voice from Tin House / Jess Walter .