Lies / Glenda Adams -- Betty / Margaret Atwood -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Daley's girls / Catherine Brady -- His son, in his arms, in light, aloft / Harold Brodkey -- Point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- I know some things / D.J. Durnam -- Signs and wonders / Max Garland -- Sex and death to the age 14 / Spalding Gray -- Gwen / Jamaica Kincaid -- My mother's clothes: The school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann -- Ponoes / Peter Meinke -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- Hiding / Susan Minot -- Turkey season / Alice Munro -- Beautiful my mane in the wind / Catherine Petroski -- Out-of-the-body travel / Sheila Schwartz -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Dog heaven / Stephanie Vaughn.