McSweeney's 29

It's nice when someone is excited to hear from you / Brian Baise

The Strauss house / Dawn Ryan

The land of our enemies / Nathaniel Minton

Augury / J. Erin Sweeney

Kosciuszko / Peter Orner

Following a lifetime of fabrication : in the wake of decades at sea / John Thorson

A record of our debts / Laura Hendrix

History lesson / Nelly Reifler

My crush on Hilary Duff / Blaze Ginsberg

The painting / Roddy Doyle

The Govindan Ananthanarayanan Academy for Moral and Ethical Practice and the treatment of sadness resulting from the misapplication of the above / Ben Greenman

Cadence / Erica Plouffe Lazure

Calls / Yannick Murphy

Labyrinth / Joyce Carol Oates.