2000: In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez --
The B-Zone open / Kate Small --
Feathers on the solar wind / David Wood --
Cat and mouse / Lisa Metzgar --
The hatbox / Jennifer Vanderbes --
The tower pig / Scott Antworth --
Bike New York! / Merrill Feitell --
The girls / Ladette Randolph --
The view / Monica Wesolowska --
My mother's first lover / Margo Rabb --
Video Ame / Shimon Tanaka --
Closer than you think / Marlais Olmstead Brand --
When the nines roll over / David Benioff --
A love transaction / Maile Chapman --
Aida South, flower / Martha Otis --
Ten secets of beauty / Jason Coleman --
Maedele / Gabriella Goliger --
The paperhanger, the doctor's wife, and the child who went into the abstract / William Gay --
Cliff gods of Acapulco / Adam Johnson.
Introduction / by Charles Baxter
Pilgrims / by Julie Orringer
Darkening of the world / by Timothy A. Westmoreland
Superassassin / by Lysley A. Tenorio
Villa of the veiled lady / by Christina Milletti
Intervention / by Erin Flanagan
Our lady of the height / by Ha-yun Jung
Oh, Albany, my love / by Jeb Livingood
Beheadings / by Kira Salak
Louisiana loses its cricket hum / by Amanda Davis
Of cabbages / by Zoey Byrd
The sharp light of trespassers / by Whitney Davis
Bats / by Lidija S. Canovic
Loss / by Roompa Bhattacharyya
Before Las Blancas / by Patrick Ryan
Home, James, and don't spare the horses / by Antoine Wilson
We are cartographers / by Susanna Daniel
The mean / by Matthew Pitt
2003: Good / Cheryl Strayed
The woman who tasted of rose oil / Esi Edugyan
The year draws in the day / Hal Horton
Under the influence / Jenn McKee
The storekeeper / Otis Haschemeyer
Transparency / Frances Hwang
Circuits / Caimeen Garrett
Who is Beatrice? / Belle Boggs
A few short notes on tropical butterflies / John Murray
Everything must go / Barry Matthews
The good life / Laura Hawley.
2004: So much the better / Misha Angrist
What is visible / Kimberly Elkins
Bunnymoon / Peyton Marshall
Healer / Michelle Wildgen
Five-minute hearts / Mary Otis
Nightfloat / Matthew Love
Transcription / Alix Ohlin
The platform / Salvatore Scibona
This is not skin / Nathan Roberts
Blue night, Clover Lake / Mary Stewart Atwell
The garden / Devika Mehra
Irregularities / Courtney Jones
The quickening / Michelle Hoover
Michiganders, 1979 / Brady Johnson
Dancing lessons / Liza Ward.
2005: Golden horde of Mississippi / Charles Henley
Garden City / Frances Hwang
Essay #3 : Leda and the swan / Eric Puchner
Full-month celebration / E.V. Slate
Like Vaclav / Keith Gessen
Farangs / Rattawut Lapcharoensap
More abandon / Joshua Ferris
Silent sky / Lachlan Smith
Pine / Hasanthika Sirisena
You are here / Michael Lowenthal
Creatures of a day / Matthew Purdy
Dog children / Tamara Guirado
Cosmonaut / Ian David Froeb
Snow fever / Rebecca Barry.
2006: Leave of absence / Jennifer Shaff
A new kind of gravity / Andrew Foster Altschul
The rust preventer / Jessica Anthony
Trampoline / Vanya Rainova
Watermark / Melanie Westerburg
Useless beauty or Notes on Esquire's "Things a man should never do after the age of 30" / Albert E. Martinez
The Jupiter's in / Sarah Blackman
Alice's house / Jamie Keene
Twinless / Gregory Plemmons
Backfire / Michelle Regalado Deatrick
Begin with an outline / Kaui Hart Hemmings
Going after lovely / Sean Ennis
2007: Introduction / by Sue Miller
By any other name / by Alice J. Marshall
About Kamyshinskiy / by Ellen Litman
Shadow on a weary land / by Lydia Peelle
The Freddies / by M.O. Walsh
A correct life / by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Temperate family / by Caimeen Garrett
Wake / by Kevin A. Gonzaþlez
Ashes / by Anne de Marcken
Whatever happened to Seþbastien Grosjean? / by Robbert Liddell
The inappropriate behavior of our alleged loved ones / by Ryan Effgen
Pompeii recreated / by Keya Mitra
Karaoke night / by Dan Pope
Winter never quits / by T. Geronimo Johnson.