Forty Stories

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FIRST EDITION

“Ambivalence” © by Ben Greenman. “Amy Having a Heart Attack” © by Sharon Goldner. “The Anarchist of Darwin” © by Michael Ramberg. “Another Terrible Thing” © by Catherine Lacey. “Barnacles of the Fuzz” © by D. Foy. “Basslines” © by Adam Wilson. “Because You Asked” © by Karon Luddy. “Before the Trip” © by Adetokunbo Abiola. “The Beginning of the Summation of Our Dead” © by Blake Butler. “Birthright City” © by Eliezra Schaffzin. “Can a Corn” © by Jess Walter. “Confluence” © by Mesha Maren. “Djeser Djeseru (Splendor of Splendors)” © by Paula Younger. “Eighty-six Ways to Cross One Desert” © by Alexander Lumans. “Everyone Loves a Person Who Doesn’t Give a Fuck About Anything” © by Laura Jane Faulds. “Fire Weather” © by Brady Hammes. “A Girl” © by Lindsay Hunter. “Glossolalia” © by Kyle Minor. “God’s Plan” © by Daniel Browne. “Granaby” © by Brandon Hobson. “Graveyards” © by Scott McClanahan. “Head Down. Palm Up” © by Mitchell S. Jackson. “Hers” © by O. A. Lindsey. “The Highline Highway” © by Nathan Oates. “House Guests” © by Alan Rossi. “I Like Looking at Pictures of Gwen Stefani” © by Elizabeth Crane. “I’ll Take You There” © by David Williams. “In the Manner of Water or Light” © by Roxane Gay. “Jail Break” © by Matt Stewart. “Jon and Maeve” © by David Backer. “Miss November” © by Matthew Norman. “Most Wanted” © by Eric Raymond. “The Mountain Population Is Me” © by Shane Jones. “opal one, opal two” © by Tessa Mellas. “A Plain Kiss (Letters to Allison, 2006)” © by Jamie Quatro. “Plank” © by Kayden Kross. “Poof” © by Joseph Scapellato. “Some Kind of Rugged Genius” © by Greg Bardsley. “What Good Is an Ark to a Fish?” © by Kelli Ford. “You Can Touch This!” © by Jim Hanas. All stories used by permission.

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