Introduction / Cheryl Strayed
Free rent at the tolitalitatian hotel from Sun / Poe Ballantine
Night from Granta / Alice Munro
Sometimes a romantic notion from Gettysburg review / Richard Schmitt
Highway of lost girls from GQ / Vanessa Veselka
Keeper of the flame from New England review / Matthew Vollmer
Breeds of America from Harper's magazine / William Melvin Kelley
My father's women from Missouri review / Mako Yoshikawa
Confessions of an ex-Mormon from New republic / Walter Kirn
I'm jumping off the bridge from Salon.com / Kevin Sampsell
Pigeons from Prairie schooner / Eileen Pollack
Triage from River teeth / Jon Kerstetter
The art of being born from Hotel Amerika / Marcia Aldrich
What happens in hell from Ploughshares / Charles Baxter
The exhibit will be so marked from Normal school / Ander Monson
The girls in my town from Southwest review / Angela Morales
Some notes on attunement from New Yorker / Zadie Smith
His last game from Notre Dame magazine / Brian Doyle
When they let them bleed from Hobart / Tom Goldberg
Field notes on hair from South Loop review / Vicki Weiqi Yang
Letter from Majorca from Paris review / J.D. Daniels
Ghost estates from New York times magazine / John Jeremiah Sullivan
Channel B from Rumpus / Megan Stielstra
A little bit of fun before he died from ZYZZYVA / Dagoberto Gilb
Epilogue: Deadkidistan from McSweeney's / Michelle Mirsky
El Camino Doloroso from Paris review / David Searcy
The book of knowledge from River teeth / Steven Harvey